Showing posts with label prevention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prevention. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Oregon students honored for artwork focused on problem gambling
Statesman-Journal
July 1, 2009
Area students won awards and honorable mentions in the 2009 Marion County Problem
Gambling Art Awards competition.
The sixth annual art search is conducted in partnership with local problem gambling prevention and outreach coordinators. The top artistic designs are chosen for next year's Oregon Department of Human Services calendar, which is designed to increase awareness of problem gambling. Each county can have two winners on the calendar, which is distributed statewide.
About 277 entries were submitted this year from middle school students throughout Marion County. Student art from Jefferson Middle School, Cascade Junior High School and Mount Angel Middle School ranked in the top 10.
[Click here to read the full article.]
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Later gambling behaviors attributable to traits in childhood?
CNN story-- "Is your child a gambler?"
It may be possible to tell if a kindergartner will become an adult gambler. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
The story refers to research published in this month's Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine.
Science Daily summarized the study on its website:
ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2009) — Children whose teachers rated them as more impulsive in kindergarten appear more likely to begin gambling behaviors by the sixth grade, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....
___What are your thoughts on this story? Please post comments below!
It may be possible to tell if a kindergartner will become an adult gambler. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
The story refers to research published in this month's Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine.
Science Daily summarized the study on its website:
ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2009) — Children whose teachers rated them as more impulsive in kindergarten appear more likely to begin gambling behaviors by the sixth grade, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....
"Our results suggest that behavioral features such as inattentiveness, distractibility and hyperactivity at school entry represent a vulnerability factor for precocious risk-oriented behavior like gambling in sixth grade," the authors write. "It is very plausible that these childhood characteristics snowball into cumulative risks for youngsters who do not eventually outgrow the distractibility and inattentiveness from early childhood and become involved in gambling as a typical pastime for many youth. Most importantly, our observations suggest a developmentally continuous effect of impulsivity that places individuals on a life course trajectory toward gambling involvement in adolescence and emerging adulthood."
___What are your thoughts on this story? Please post comments below!
Friday, September 26, 2008
New Site Includes "Videos to Beat the Odds"
The Minnesota Department of Human Services’ Problem Gambling Program has a new site, BeatTheBet.com. The program also created the Videos to Beat the Odds competition to address the issue of teen problem gambling.
Some of Oregon Problem Gambling Services' regional prevention coordinators have been discussing the potential to offer a "video search" component in 2009 for the annual Oregon Problem Gambling Awareness Week. For six years, the state has been coordinating problem gambling awareness "art searches" (a.k.a. poster contests), in middle schools throughout Oregon. This next year may be an opportunity to expand the searches to high schools with a multimedia approach.
Take a look at the Minnesota high school student videos featured online at http://www.beatthebet.com/hs_FilmContestResults.asp.
What are your thoughts, or previous experiences, with this sort of awareness effort? Share your comments below.
Some of Oregon Problem Gambling Services' regional prevention coordinators have been discussing the potential to offer a "video search" component in 2009 for the annual Oregon Problem Gambling Awareness Week. For six years, the state has been coordinating problem gambling awareness "art searches" (a.k.a. poster contests), in middle schools throughout Oregon. This next year may be an opportunity to expand the searches to high schools with a multimedia approach.
Take a look at the Minnesota high school student videos featured online at http://www.beatthebet.com/hs_FilmContestResults.asp.
What are your thoughts, or previous experiences, with this sort of awareness effort? Share your comments below.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
CADCA Coalitions Online encourages online coalition building
June 12, 2008
VIEWPOINT: Is a Blog Right for Your Coalition?
by: LaDonna Coy, MHR, CPS, CDLA, New Media and Prevention Specialist
Source: http://cadca.org/CoalitionsOnline/article.asp?id=1894
What are blogs and why should a coalition consider them? For starters, blogs have upset the way we´ve grown accustomed to communicating! And that´s a very good thing if you are involved in the work of creating community change. Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, says, "when we change the way we communicate, we change society."
A blog at its most basic is an individual or group Web site that is updated often and the newest information always appears first. While often described as an online journal, you also can think of it as a coalition news channel. This channel is your own, for your news and information based on your needs and schedule—but with an interesting twist. Unlike Web sites, blogs allow comments, opening up two-way communication loops. Good blogs encourage exchanges of information, ideas and resources.
What can a coalition do with a blog? Some coalitions use blogs for distributing news, information or to celebrate community events in ways similar to a Web site. Others use blogs to replace and expand the reach of their newsletter. Some post thoughts, comments, opinions, descriptions, or stories. We are more limited by own imaginations than by the technology.
If you have a computer, Internet connection and a browser, a blog is quick and easy to start and can be free. What else can blogs do for a coalition? They can:
• provide an anchor from which coalitions can launch ideas/events/products and link to ANY other source that appears online;• open communication and feedback loops offering community “conversation” online; and
• make dramatic ripple effects possible as conversations between the coalition and the community happen and expand to encompass other coalitions across the country, the research community, and provider network.
If we change the way we communicate—the way information flows between, among and around us—we will naturally create change.
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Check out this blog for more great info on blogging in the prevention world: http://technologyinprevention.blogspot.com/
VIEWPOINT: Is a Blog Right for Your Coalition?
by: LaDonna Coy, MHR, CPS, CDLA, New Media and Prevention Specialist
Source: http://cadca.org/CoalitionsOnline/article.asp?id=1894
What are blogs and why should a coalition consider them? For starters, blogs have upset the way we´ve grown accustomed to communicating! And that´s a very good thing if you are involved in the work of creating community change. Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, says, "when we change the way we communicate, we change society."
A blog at its most basic is an individual or group Web site that is updated often and the newest information always appears first. While often described as an online journal, you also can think of it as a coalition news channel. This channel is your own, for your news and information based on your needs and schedule—but with an interesting twist. Unlike Web sites, blogs allow comments, opening up two-way communication loops. Good blogs encourage exchanges of information, ideas and resources.
What can a coalition do with a blog? Some coalitions use blogs for distributing news, information or to celebrate community events in ways similar to a Web site. Others use blogs to replace and expand the reach of their newsletter. Some post thoughts, comments, opinions, descriptions, or stories. We are more limited by own imaginations than by the technology.
If you have a computer, Internet connection and a browser, a blog is quick and easy to start and can be free. What else can blogs do for a coalition? They can:
• provide an anchor from which coalitions can launch ideas/events/products and link to ANY other source that appears online;• open communication and feedback loops offering community “conversation” online; and
• make dramatic ripple effects possible as conversations between the coalition and the community happen and expand to encompass other coalitions across the country, the research community, and provider network.
If we change the way we communicate—the way information flows between, among and around us—we will naturally create change.
[...]
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Check out this blog for more great info on blogging in the prevention world: http://technologyinprevention.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Oregon problem gambling awareness poster search winners now online
[Above: top-selected poster in Oregon (2009 calendar cover); created by Cirra Halter, 8th grade, of Mt Angel Middle School.]
The top ten posters in Oregon for the 2008 Problem Gambling Awareness Week middle school poster search are now online here.
Lane County's top 10 posters are below.
Would you like to see more? Upload your region's posters to the blog or send them to Julie Hynes.
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