SCLWN: YGam Gaming and Gambling Harm Prevention Training
May 13 @ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
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This event is for Primary Care Community Link Workers and Community Link Worker Programme Leads.
Ygam is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to preventing gaming and gambling harms among young people. Their work bridges the critical knowledge gap between young people’s digital lives and the adults who guide them. They believe in harm prevention through education, empowering the people who can make a real difference.
Following a successful training event in June 2025, The Scottish Community Link Worker Network is working again with award-winning charity Ygam to offer CLWs City and Guilds Gaming and Gambling Harm Prevention Training. The timing of this training is particularly pertinent with the release last year of the Public Health Scotland Healthcare Needs Assessment of Gambling Harm in Scotland. This document also recommends the new NICE Guidelines on this topic, which say the following:
“Health and social care professionals should consider asking people about gambling (even if they have no obvious risk factors for gambling-related harm) when asking them about smoking, alcohol consumption or use of other substances (for example, as part of a holistic assessment or health check, when registering for a service such as with a GP or in contacts with social services).”
30% of 11-17-year-olds have spent their own money on gambling in the last 12 months (far more than the 15% who have vaped in the same time period), and 87% of 8-25-year-olds play video games at least 3 times a week.
Ygam’s workshop will help CLWs to open up conversations on these topics (which can be tricky to do due to the shame and stigma associated with them), as well as providing guidance on how to support and signpost a patient who is experiencing gaming or gambling harm.
