College Students

The Mass. Council College Outreach Program has worked with 23 Massachusetts colleges and universities. Over the past 3 years, the program has offered training and technical assistance to colleges and universities interested in developing gambling policies and procedures and or prevention of problem gambling programming efforts. Interested schools are encouraged to contact the Council.

 

Several products were created to supplement these efforts including: a set of posters about student gambling, a Resident Assistant (RA) training curriculum, and print and radio public service announcements (PSAs). The Council has also supplied every college and university with two copies of the book, “Gambling on Campus: New Directions for Student Services No. 113 (J-B SS Single Issue Student Services). McClellan, George S., Jim Caswell, and Thomas W. Hardy. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.

 

We have also begun an outreach effort to support the intervention efforts of counseling professionals on college and university campuses working with students experiencing problems in living due to their gambling.

 

For more information, please contact Council Prevention Director, Jim Wuelfing at 617-426-4554.