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Page 1: Don't bet your life - Victorian Responsible Gambling ......Gambling Foundation In May this year we participated in “Responsible Gambling Week”. We organised an event at Maidstone
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• Our Vision Our Purposes

• Our Values: Integrity, Respect, Inclusion, Compassion, Excellence

• Our Vision: A harmonious society in which everyone, irrespective of age, gender, skills, abilities, ethnicity & religion, feels valued, is motivated & empowered to contribute.

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• Our Mission:• To help individuals and families• Know their rights, responsibilities, options and opportunities• Realise their full potential• Improve their health, happiness and well being• Our Purposes:• To provide a framework for mainly Vietnamese women to collaborate and 

learn to lead and operate a not‐for‐profit organisation to assist the settlement and harmonious integration of refugees and migrants of Vietnamese and other backgrounds in Victoria.

• To help Victorians, irrespective of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, obtain the information they need, know their rights,responsibilities, options and opportunities, realise their full potential and improve their health, happiness and well‐being.

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AVWA is a Public Benevolent Institution registered with the Hospitals and Charities Commission.

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Service Overview

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Gambling Prevention 

and Counselling 

team

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Our partnership with the Victorian Responsible Gambling FoundationIn May this year we participated in “Responsible Gambling Week”. We organised an event at Maidstone  Community Centre. Professor Singh gave a speech with 160 people attending. In July we received funding from the Victoria Responsible Gambling Foundation to provide both Counselling and Prevention services for the Vietnamese community in Eastern ‐ North‐Western regions.

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Gambling Prevention Program

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Responsible Gambling Awareness Week –“Family Stays Together, Plays Together”

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Don’t Bet Your Life

Don’t Bet Your Life” is a State‐wide preventative project which aims at increasing the awareness of the detrimental effects of gambling in the Vietnamese community in Victoria. This project will target all generations using Vietnamese language with the first and the 1.5 generations and English language for the second and third generations. 

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Communication Strategy• Gambling related information from Gambler's Help and others will be translated appropriately 

and will be aired, published on most  Vietnamese media outlets in Victoria together with interviews and community announcements.

• Mass community awareness/engagement at Vietnamese New Year Festivals in St Albans, Footscray, Richmond and Sandown Park (Springvale).

• Information sessions will be delivered to Vietnamese groups including playgroups, men’s, women’s, youth and senior groups.

• Family events or outings for extended families (three generations) on special occasions such as Vietnamese New Year Celebration, International Women’s Day, Responsible Gambling Awareness Week, Full Moon Festival, etc…

• Website, youth camp, facebook and blog for young people

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Healthy leisure activities ‐ Project workers will organise group activities and facilitate (organising and 

subsidising) healthy leisure activities that are appealing to the Vietnamese such as ballroom dancing, soccer, 

tennis, table tennis, badminton, swimming etc.

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Gambling Counselling Program at AVWA

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Vietnamese attitudes about Counselling

• Not familiar with the counselling service• Don’t feel comfortable to talk to a stranger• When having a problem, they prefer to ask for advice from a relative whom they can trust.

• They only trust and ask advice from the elderly, as in the saying “wisdom is in the white hair”.

• However, the elderly are those who are least knowledgeable about the Australian context.

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• The elderly do not trust the young, as they think, one could not be an advisor, consultant or counsellor without a great deal of life experience, overcome trials and failures, particularly in the context of ethics, family and other relationships.  

• People would prefer not have to go for advice or counselling to a person of the opposite sex as they don’t feel comfortable, more ashamed and, afraid to lose face.

• People are also afraid that their problems will be known in the community. 

• Mental issues are still subject to stigma and therefore hidden as they are seen as  bad karma and  low value of the family

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How do Vietnamese people handletheir problems

• Hide and deny• Pretend to be OK in front of others.• Isolate themselves as they feel low self esteem, anxiety and depression.

• Try to forget their problems by means of turning to alcohol, drugs or gambling.

• Suffer on their own without seeking help until their problems become really serious.

• As a result of addictions and consequences in behaviour or finances, some get involved in crimes and end up in prison.

• There are those who live without joy, peace and hope leading to risk of self harm.

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Gambling Counselling Program at AVWA

• Provide culturally appropriate individual gambling counselling in the Vietnamese community.

• Operate a process of assessment about clients’ gambling issues, clients’ background, situation and needs.

• Develop an individual treatment plan.

• Provide holistic support to clients with other needs and issues.

• Provide information and assist clients to access other services relating to health, lifestyle, financial situation etc....

• Provide counselling on line.

• Out‐reach services are also offered to those who prefer face‐to‐face counselling service but could not come to the indicated locations. 

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• Provide counselling and support to clients’ families.

• Provide community education about gambling through media such as AVWA website, Newsletters and magazines, 3ZZZ & SBS and other radio stations, Vietnamese newspapers and community events and group meetings.

• Refer clients to financial counselling program and other organisations re housing, food security etc....

• Collaborate with Gambling Prevention program to engage clients in health and well‐being programs.

• Refer clients to other AVWA services such as training program, activities groups for on‐going support.

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