PEACE Multicultural Gambling Help Service
PEACE Multicultural Gambling Help Service supports multicultural communities by raising awareness and providing community education and development projects around problem gambling. Counselling and the role of social services are new and often alienating concepts to many culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. Building effective access means involving the community in developing relevant and appropriate services, and being part of the delivery of those services. We provide a range of holistic and flexible services to people from CALD backgrounds and facilitate partnerships between CALD and non-CALD community service agencies and communities.
Some of the achievements for PEACE include:
- Establishing Omnia, a support group for women from CALD backgrounds who are or have been affected by problem gambling
- Developing the half-yearly PEACE newsletters for more than 500 community service organisations
- Developing a major media campaign for the Spanish speaking community to promote ways to get help on problem gambling
- Holding an information day at Thebarton Senior College during Gambling Awareness Week, which saw over 150 students participate in a quiz and listen to guest speakers about their experiences with gambling problems. The day broke the taboo on the issue, resulting in three students coming forward to us to discuss personal issues
- Working in collaboration with Gaming Care and Club Safe.
Our work challenges people’s ideas about gambling so that we can remove or minimise the stigma associated with it. We involve the community in discussions that allow them to unpack the personal, interpersonal, economic and structural influences that persuades individuals to gamble or not to gamble.
If you have questions about PEACE Multicultural Gambling Help Service email Enaam Oudih or call her on 8245 8100.