MassGaming, Department of Public Health invite public to Community Listening Sessions
- September 16, 2014
- by MGC Communications
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The following is a joint announcement from MassGaming and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health:
The Expanded Gaming Act of 2011, Chapter 194: An Act Establishing Expanded Gaming in Massachusetts,
Section 58 creates a Public Health Trust Fund “to assist social service and public health programs dedicated to
addressing problems associated with compulsive gambling including, but not limited to, gambling prevention and
addiction services, substance abuse services, educational campaigns to mitigate the potential addictive nature of
gambling and any studies and evaluations necessary, including the annual research agenda…”
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Massachusetts Gaming Commission invite you to
Community Listening Sessions to share information and opinions about problem gambling. This information will
be used to advise the use of the Public Health Trust Fund including future directions of gambling related research
and the content of a Public Health Gambling Services Strategic Plan to inform the delivery of comprehensive,
statewide prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery support services.
The schedule for the Community Listening Sessions is as follows:
Thursday, September 18, 2014
4:00pm – 7:00pm
The Boys and Girls Club (upstairs)
30 Willow Street, Chelsea, MA
Register here
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Kitteridge Center for Business and Workforce Development, Room 303
Holyoke Community College
303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Register here
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
12:30pm – 3:00pm
Plainville Council on Aging (basement)
9 School Street, Plainville, MA
Register here
*For more information, and for requests of reasonable accommodations, please contact Alicia Barron,
Intervention and Treatment Support Manager, Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling at
617-426-4554; Alicia@masscompulsivegambling.org