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In
order to help inform the planning process for the prevention of problem
gambling in Southeastern Massachusetts, a dozen representatives from local
organizations met in the Gifford Building at Taunton State Hospital on
April 3, 2017 for a two-hour discussion. Introduced by Victor Ortiz,
Director of Problem Gambling Services for the Massachusetts Department of
Public Health, the session was led by Lauren Gilman, Kitty Bowman and
Haner Hernandez of MassTAPP,
the Massachusetts Technical Assistance Partnership for Prevention. In April 2016 the
Massachusetts
Department of Public Health and the Massachusetts Gaming Commission
released a strategic plan to mitigate the harms associated with problem
gambling in Massachusetts.
The
plan provides detailed strategies to address problem gambling and explores
the relationships between problem gambling and other health concerns —
laying the groundwork for the development of a strong public health
response to those issues most affected by the expansion of gambling in
Massachusetts. This meeting is part of a plan implemented by the
Department of Public Health to address these issues in Southeastern
Massachusetts. Click
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(Top
row) Lance Tehan of Stanley Street Treatment and Resources (SSTAR) in
Fall River listens as Rev. David Lima of the Inter-Church
Council in New Bedford talks about the problems associated with
problem gambling that he sees after Victor
Ortiz, Director
of Problem Gambling Services
makes some introductory remarks at the meeting held in the Gifford
Building at Taunton State Hospital. (Row two) Paula Beaulieu, also of
SSTAR listens as MassTAPP Consultant Kitty Bowman goes over the
background of the current initiative to plan for the prevention of
problem gambling in Southeastern Massachusetts. (Bottom row) A SSTAR
employee listens as Fall
River Grants Manager Michael Aguiar talks about ways people could
be reached at the local level to become involved in the initiative as
MassTAPP Consultant Haner Hernandez, Ph.D. goes over those strategies.
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