About us
The Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation is a statutory authority created by the Victorian Parliament to address the challenge of gambling harm in the Victorian community.
We work with partners and communities to inform people about the risks of gambling, and to provide support to those who need it, including people affected by someone else’s gambling.
Reducing harm
We fund and work closely with organisations across Victoria to provide free and confidential Gambler’s Help services to people experiencing harm from their own or someone else’s gambling.
We take a public health approach to our work, which means we focus on prevention, early intervention and support for those who are particularly vulnerable to gambling harm as well as those living in regional and rural communities.
For professionals
Our professional development centre offers learning and development opportunities for Gambler's Help staff and professionals in related sectors. We provide information and resources to help health and welfare professionals identify people experiencing harm from their own, or a significant other's, gambling and more effectively respond to their needs.
Research
The main aim of our research program is to build our understanding of gambling harm. Each year the Foundation identifies new areas of gambling to research and in addition to awarding research grants, we commission major research projects so that we can learn more about how gambling affects our community.
Resources
We provide information to community groups, local government and the public about gambling and its regulation in Victoria.
We also support Victorians to participate in regulatory and other processes relating to gambling, including licensing and planning processes associated with electronic gaming machines.

Community-led prevention projects

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The Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation supports community-led initiatives that aim to prevent and reduce gambling harm. We provide funding to local governments, community-based, not-for-profit, and public health organisations including Gambler’s Help Services to deliver innovative placed-based projects in diverse communities across Victoria. Project aims include: raising awareness of the risks of gambling, providing alternative recreational activities, reducing the stigma of gambling harm and encouraging people experiencing gambling harm to seek support. We fund pilot projects and the continuation or expansion of key successful pilots.

The Foundation has engaged an external provider to independently evaluate the processes, outcomes and impacts of each project between 2019 – 2023. The evaluation will also examine the broader learning that emerges from the integrated investment in a variety of community-led prevention projects.

Learn more about our prior initiatives by reading the evaluation summary reports:

Since 2014

311

partnerships

85

grants awarded

up to 8 mil

Victorians reached

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The Foundation partners with community organisations and other areas of government on coordinated initiatives to prevent and reduce gambling harm. Many of these ongoing collaborations started as pilot projects.

The Community Engagement Program is delivered by Gambler’s Help services working directly with communities to address locally identified gambling harm prevention priorities.

For more information about any of the community-led prevention initiatives, please contact:

Email prevention@responsiblegambling.vic.gov.au

Commonwealth inquiry into online gambling reflects Victorian expertise — 3 Jul 2023
Supporting Vietnamese women affected by gambling — 5 Nov 2021
OAM honour to Three sides of the coin director — 5 Feb 2020
Youth voice heard in new regional gambling harm prevention initiative — 6 May 2019
Cultural connection to reduce gambling harm — 24 Apr 2019

Latrobe Valley receives targeted gambling harm support — 24 Aug 2021

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