Past grant recipients
Recipient | Total Amount (ex GST) | Project |
|---|---|---|
Australian Multicultural Action Network Incorporated | $10,000 | Stronger Together This project is focused on prevention, awareness, and cultural connection in CALD communities. Gambling harm often hidden due to stigma, language barriers, and cultural values. The project aims to reduce stigma, build resilience, and improve access to support services through:
Resources will be co-designed with community leaders and partnerships, and informed by lived experience. This will create a more informed, inclusive, and gambling-resilient ACT community. |
| Recipient | Total Amount (ex GST) | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Central Queensland University | $89,325 | Understanding and Addressing Legacy Gambling Harm in the ACT The project is the first in-depth investigation of legacy gambling harm in the ACT. The 2024 ACT Gambling Survey found that 5.7% of the population experiences ongoing harm from past gambling (legacy harm). Building on this finding, the current study will provide new knowledge on the nature, severity, and quality of life impacts of legacy harm on people who gamble and affected others, as well as risk and protective factors, and requirements for support. The findings will provide an evidence base to inform targeted policies, prevention strategies, and support services to reduce the long-term burden of gambling harm. |
Recipient | Total Amount (ex GST) | Project |
|---|---|---|
Deakin University | $157,440 | The normalisation of gambling for women in the ACT: A public health approach to gambling harm prevention
This project aims to understand the range of factors that may contribute to the normalisation of gambling for women in the ACT. It will qualitatively examine the factors influencing the socio-cultural acceptance of gambling and undertake a marketing analysis on appeal strategies used to engage women. The findings will be disseminated via an online toolkit with downloadable resources. This will include evidence summaries, marketing examples, lived experience narratives, and examples for practical initiatives. |
Australian National University | $122,650 | Risky parental gambling and child wellbeing evidence-base for policy, harm prevention and service coordination
This research project seeks to attain information to guide a coordinated service response to address parental gambling harm in families with children. Delivered in two parts, the first part of the project involves a multicohort longitudinal analysis of population-based child, parent and household data in Australia. The second part involves 10-15 semi structured interviews with service providers in the ACT. This will include gambling support, child protection and other relevant (schools, mental health, early childhood, maternity) services. Findings will be presented in a final report, proving new information about the long-term impacts of parental gambling and build evidence base of service needs. |
Recipient | Total Amount (ex GST) | Project |
|---|---|---|
Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Association ACT | $70,290 | Alcohol, other drugs and gambling in the ACT: a cross-sectoral approach to harm minimisation The project seeks to build capability within the workforce and develop service and sector capacity by developing a practice guide. The guide will address co-occurring gambling and substance use harms in the treatment setting and is specific to the ACT context. Expert-facilitated training in the use of the practice guide will be provided to workplace champions in a cross- sectoral setting to build capacity. Click here to view the practice guide titled What’s the Harm? A guide to understanding and responding to co-occurring gambling and substance use harms in service settings. |
Australian National University | $172,000 | The co-design of digital public health strategy and resources to prevent gambling harm in young people The project will develop, through co-design processes, a comprehensive public health strategy to prevent gambling harm to young people. This will include a major digital ‘hub’ with public health resources covering online and in-venue gambling. Specific evidence-based resources will be developed for inclusion on this hub to support digital awareness of gambling harm for:
The digital hub titled Fair Play provides information, resources and practical tools about gambling like features in games and online betting. Visit the website at fairplay.org.au |