Publications
Publications
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Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan November 2019 – November 2021
November 2019
Download "Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan November 2019 – November 2021" (PDF — 6.2 MB) -
GH Connect Service Location Update Form
November 2019
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Alfred e-referral form
October 2019
View details for "Alfred e-referral form" | Download "Alfred e-referral form" (Word document — 35.8 KB)This is the client referral form to refer clients to the Alfred Mental Heath and Gambling Harm Service Program.
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Annual report 2018–2019
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — October 2019
View details for "Annual report 2018–2019" | Download "Annual report 2018–2019" (PDF — 2.6 MB)The Foundation's 2018–2019 annual report was tabled in the Victorian Parliament on Thursday 17 October 2019.
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The prevalence and correlates of gambling in secondary school students in Victoria, Australia, 2017
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — October 2019
View details for "The prevalence and correlates of gambling in secondary school students in Victoria, Australia, 2017" | Download "The prevalence and correlates of gambling in secondary school students in Victoria, Australia, 2017" (PDF — 982.1 KB)This study explores attitudes, behaviour and exposure to gambling among secondary school students in Victoria.
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Extent of, and children and young people’s exposure to, gambling advertising in sport and non-sport TV
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — October 2019
View details for "Extent of, and children and young people’s exposure to, gambling advertising in sport and non-sport TV" | Download "Extent of, and children and young people’s exposure to, gambling advertising in sport and non-sport TV" (PDF — 2.4 MB)This is the first study in Australia, and internationally, to examine the extent of gambling advertising on sport TV and non-sport TV, and the extent to which young people in different age groups are exposed to it.
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Submission to the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — July 2019
View details for "Submission to the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System" | Download "Submission to the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System" (PDF — 259.4 KB)The Foundation has made a submission to the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System. A key focus of the submission is ensuring gambling harm is understood as a mental health and public health issue, and that health services are better able to assist people with comorbid problem gambling and mental health conditions.
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A brief intervention to support gamblers to stick to their limits in EGM venues: an exploratory study
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — June 2019
View details for "A brief intervention to support gamblers to stick to their limits in EGM venues: an exploratory study" | Download "A brief intervention to support gamblers to stick to their limits in EGM venues: an exploratory study" (PDF — 926.8 KB)This study explored strategies people use to stick to spending limits when gambling on pokies, and tested the feasibility and effectiveness of an ‘action and coping planning’ intervention offered in venues to help people stick to limits.
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Identifying effective policy interventions to prevent gambling-related harm
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — June 2019
View details for "Identifying effective policy interventions to prevent gambling-related harm" | Download "Identifying effective policy interventions to prevent gambling-related harm" (PDF — 1.2 MB)The purpose of this project was to explore potential policy interventions to reduce gambling harm, drawing on existing gambling research, and evidence from other areas of public health.
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Submission to the Productivity Commission on mental health
The Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — April 2019
View details for "Submission to the Productivity Commission on mental health" | Download "Submission to the Productivity Commission on mental health" (PDF — 1.5 MB)The Foundation is a partner in VicHealth's submission to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into the role of improving mental health to support economic participation as well as enhancing productivity and economic growth. The Foundation highlighted the correlation between mental health conditions and problem gambling, and the social cost of gambling to Victoria.
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Local Prevention Program evaluation summary 2014 – 2017
November 2018
View details for "Local Prevention Program evaluation summary 2014 – 2017" | Download "Local Prevention Program evaluation summary 2014 – 2017" (PDF — 2.2 MB)This document provides a summary of the Local Prevention Program evaluation findings.
The evaluation focused primarily on the results and impacts of 17 funded projects delivered as part of phase 2 of the program, which ran from December 2015 to June 2017. The projects were diverse and directed at a range of settings and populations, including culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) groups, Victorian Aboriginal communities, young men and workplaces.
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Online gaming and gambling in children and adolescents – Normalising gambling in cyber places
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — September 2018
View details for "Online gaming and gambling in children and adolescents – Normalising gambling in cyber places" | Download "Online gaming and gambling in children and adolescents – Normalising gambling in cyber places" (PDF — 3.0 MB)This literature review examined the available research on children and adolescents' exposure to, and participation in, online gaming and gambling activities.
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Annual report 2017–2018
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — September 2018
View details for "Annual report 2017–2018" | Download "Annual report 2017–2018" (PDF — 5.0 MB)
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Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2018 Aboriginal brochure
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — September 2018
View details for "Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2018 Aboriginal brochure" | Download "Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2018 Aboriginal brochure" (PDF — 374.9 KB)
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Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2018 brochure
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — September 2018
View details for "Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2018 brochure" | Download "Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2018 brochure" (PDF — 389.6 KB)Gambling Harm Awareness Week (8-14 October 2018). When we Talk.Share.Support. we can start to reduce gambling harm in our community.
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Social influences on gamblers by risk group: An egocentric social network analysis
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — August 2018
View details for "Social influences on gamblers by risk group: An egocentric social network analysis" | Download "Social influences on gamblers by risk group: An egocentric social network analysis" (PDF — 3.4 MB)The research aimed to map the social networks of low- and moderate-risk gamblers, in terms of their gambling and other potentially risky behaviours, such as alcohol consumption. It sought to understand whether the social networks of low-risk and moderate-risk gamblers differ to those of non-gamblers, non-problem gamblers and problem gamblers.
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Effects of wagering marketing on vulnerable adults
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — August 2018
View details for "Effects of wagering marketing on vulnerable adults" | Download "Effects of wagering marketing on vulnerable adults" (PDF — 3.2 MB)This study examined the impact of approaches to wagering marketing, including inducements, on vulnerable adults.
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Direct messages received from wagering operators
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — August 2018
View details for "Direct messages received from wagering operators" | Download "Direct messages received from wagering operators" (PDF — 2.1 MB)This research examined the effects of ‘push marketing’ – direct promotional messages such as text messages, emails and phone calls – on wagering operators’ account-holders.
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Mobile EGMs Apps – The perfect substitute or the perfect storm?
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — August 2018
View details for "Mobile EGMs Apps – The perfect substitute or the perfect storm?" | Download "Mobile EGMs Apps – The perfect substitute or the perfect storm?" (PDF — 2.1 MB)The project examined the role of free‐to‐play gambling‐themed apps and their relationship to in‐venue gambling.
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Strategic plan 2018–2021
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — August 2018
View details for "Strategic plan 2018–2021" | Download "Strategic plan 2018–2021" (PDF — 372.5 KB)Our strategic plan provides a framework to guide the Foundation's activities with a focus on achieving our vision of a Victoria free from gambling-related harm.
