GamCare
About
GamCare is the leading national provider of information, advice, support and free treatment for anyone affected by problem gambling. Our expert services are confidential and non-judgemental.
What we do
Whether you are looking for support for yourself or friend or family member, GamCare has many services available including:
- National Gambling Helpline
- Support and treatment for problem gamblers
- Support for partners, friends and family
- Support for professionals
- Frontline services
- Advice and information
- Self help resources
- Self assessment tool
- Face to face treatment
- Online treatment
Women and gambling-related harm
Why does GamCare offer women-specific training?
Each year, at least 35 per cent of callers to our National Gambling Helpline identify as female, 23% of whom call about their own gambling and 84% about someone else’s. One fifth of all clients in our treatment services are women.
Women can be disproportionately harmed by gambling-related harms, experiencing financial difficulties, relationship problems and mental health issues.
Evidence also suggests, for many women a compulsion to gamble may be influenced by trauma, domestic abuse, and other pressures such as caring responsibilities.
In turn, these problems can cause a sense of isolation and have far-reaching impacts on their families, communities, and personal lives. However, they are often hidden from support services.
What we can offer
- Free training to increase your knowledge, skills and confidence to discuss and support individuals experiencing gambling related harm.
- Ensuring women get the right support at the right time.
- Women and gambling-related harm working together to raise awareness, address stigma and reduce gambling related harms experienced by women.
- Information, advice and ongoing support about how to identify gambling harms, the services that are available, and how to make a referral.
- Attending and presenting at networking events, team meetings, women’s groups.
- To keep gambling harms on the agenda and amplify women’s experience.
- Direct engagement and support to women who might be at risk of experiencing gambling related harm.
For more further information follow the link for Women's Programme - GamCare
Who to contact
- Telephone
- 0808 802 0133 Free call 0808 802 0133 Free call
- info@gamcare.org.uk
- Website(s)
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- https://www.gamcare.org.uk/
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