Education & Training
Education & Training
At Breakeven, we offer specialised Gambling Awareness Training which is designed to upskill or train staff about how best to either help or identify people suffering gambling related harm.
The Breakeven Prevention training programme aims to educate learners, using a uniform, and consistent set of messaging regarding Gambling Related Harms (GRH) and the associated issues, through an ethos that emphasises a Public Health Approach.
A fundamental aspect of the programme utilises a first aid methodology that supports learners to competently implement an early brief intervention with anyone at risk of, or experiencing, gambling harms, and how to signpost to specialist service providers.
The programme seeks to prevent a worsening or escalation of the individual’s gambling harms situation. This is done through a developed understanding of the issue, developing confidence in supporting individuals and ultimately by guiding and signposting people in accessing appropriate specialist services.
The programme is offered FREE to services engaging with our identified key target groups. Anyone interested in this course who is not specifically engaging with our target groups, please contact drew@breakeven.org.uk for more information.
The Workplace Charter
We support employers and staff to build good practice in health and work in their organisation.
Harmful gambling can be the causes of, and contributors to, short and long term ill health for a considerable proportion of people of working age. For example, it is estimated that there are in the region of 1.3 million harmful gamblers in the UK and with many times that number experiencing gambling related harms.
We offer practical, evidence-based ways in which employers and staff can commit to promoting the health and wellbeing of their workers experiencing gambling related harms. This helps reduce sickness and absence and support those who want or need to change their relationship with gambling.
Employees are the lifeblood of any organisation. Their health and wellbeing are central to its sustainability. An organisation that supports its employees to make healthier choices and overcome problems with their gambling behaviour is more likely to prosper, through higher productivity, improved staff retention and improved performance.
The business case for supporting employees to make healthier choices relative to harmful gambling is compelling.
A healthier workforce has a positive impact on the productivity and sustainability of organisations. It also benefits society as a whole, by reducing health and social care costs, and the human costs of ill health.
Harmful gambling makes a considerable contribution to workplace absence. This has a significant cost to business and the economy. The economic burden of harmful gambling is substantial, with estimates placing the annual cost in the UK to be over £1.27 billion.
We require an emphasis on addressing gambling harms as a public health issue and a safeguarding concern.
