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BalCC is running the CAFS Love the Game school education program, which is a free prevention program for Year 10-12 students (including VCAL). The hour long session explores how gambling is starting to feel more normal, how it’s a way to spend money not make money, that it’s risky and the harm which it can cause. The session encompasses a number of activities to encourage student involvement.

The Love the Game program is all about reducing the exposure of young people to sports betting promotion and disrupting the social norm of betting and sport.

Sports betting advertising is everywhere these days. Young people, especially, would find it hard to remember a time watching sport without thinking about the odds. Ads today seem to suggest that you need to have a bet on the game to enjoy it. When young people see excessive sports betting promotion it can seem like gambling is normal, and that sport is all about the odds, not the game. When something feels normal, it doesn’t seem risky.

For more information head to: https://responsiblegambling.vic.gov.au/reducing-harm/love-the-game-program/