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OHA-AMH
Problem Gambling Prevention Coordinators Monthly Connect
January 3, 2014 Minutes
10:00am-11:00am
Time Topic
Participation:
Julie (Lane County), Jennifer (Lincoln County), Jessica
(Deschutes County),Becca, (Yamhill County), Deanne (Union County),
and Greta (AMH).
Agenda Items:
State Updates
PG Prevention Specialist position: Position has been posted and
recruitmentis occurring. Open recruitment closes February 7 at
midnight. Interviews to
be conducted in February and hopefully AMH will be able to offer
a position
by the end of the month and have new person start in March.OHT
Data: Rusha at AMH is putting the OHT data together to
correlate
student PG data with other risky behaviors, such as tobacco,
alcohol, etc.Data should be available around February 18 and will
be sent via email to
prevention coordinators.Problem Gambling Awareness Month: The
National Council on Problem
Gambling has now named March Problem Gambling Awareness
Month,which has expanded from Problem Gambling Awareness Week.
Discussion Topics:Spring Prevention Summit: Jennifer from
Lincoln County continueddiscussion of the A/D Prevention Summit
that will occur at the Chinook
Winds Hotel (next to the casino). Dates are May 20-23 in Lincoln
City.This meeting is co-hosted by Siletz Tribe and AMH. This summit
is an
integration of the prevention summit and 9 tribes quarterly
meeting and willbe for prevention coordinators and an array of
tribal professionals. Planning
committee, which Jennifer is a part of, submitted a draft agenda
to KerryannWoomer (AMH planning coordinator). No response by time
of meeting
from Kerryann. Agenda items include; Native American
Traditions,
Cultural Trauma, What is tribal council, etc. This summit is an
opportunityfor prevention coordinators to better understand the
tribes culture and how
to work together. Evening activities will be held within the
casino, due to
space size. May 22 in the afternoon may focus on problem
gambling. Moreinformation to come and topic will stay on future
agendas.
OPGAW Planning: Group report what they are planning-State:
Requested Proclamation from Governors Office for Awareness
Month.
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Lane County: Doing more timely media and developing PSA to tie
into
the month with customary message- help free, confidential and
available.
Yamhill County: Partnering with local newspaper with weekly
articles
(gambling risky behavior, testimonial from local people, what
lottery andcasino funds are used for, prevention efforts). YC
received an innovative
prevention grant that will focus on follow-up on outcomes
ofenvironmental scan (alcohol, tobacco and lottery) - outreach to
store
regarding placement of information, etc.
Deschutes County: No plans at this time.
Lincoln County-Working with new treatment provider (David) and
willhave article in paper.
New Electronic Gambling Machines at Lottery Retailer Venues:
State willneed to collect more information on this topic before
group can have
thorough discussion. However, in a meeting with the lottery last
week, these
new machines were mentioned in that they would have help
information
along the header of each game, as this might be more visible
then currentsticker on machine.
Announcements:
Legislative Updates:HB 4028: Provide money to OHA to do
advertisement/promotion
campaign to promote treatment and prevention services. As
beenamended to allow Oregon Lottery to do
advertisement/promotion
campaigns with existing administrative moneys. Likely to pass.HB
4040: Requires lottery commission to adopt comprehensive
responsible gaming policy that integrates consideration of
responsibleplaying of games of chance into lottery operations.
Likely to pass.
HB 4079: The Oregon State Lottery shall convene a work group
ofstakeholders to study and make recommendations regarding the
feasibility of allowing financial institutions to offer
prize-linked savingsaccounts under the authority of the Oregon
State Lottery. Likely to pass.
DUII Multidisciplinary Conference: April 25-26, 2014
(unfortunatelyconflicts with PG Regional Conference) Becca reported
that this conference
is taking place at Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City. This is
a very
good conference each year and this year there will be a session
on publicsafety and the impact of legalized Marijuana, with
speakers from WA state.Workforce Policy Development: Becca reported
that she has drafted a
workplace policy for County Health and Human Services
(combination ofsamples from Lane and Marion) and was approved by
county. Becca will
provide a copy of the policy for Julie to add to prevention
coordinators web
page. On the prevention coordinators web page, you can find
sample
workplace policy templates:
