The Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust (YGAM), is a national charity with the social purpose to inform, educate and safeguard young people from the potential harms of gaming and gambling.
This is achieved through evidence-led, evaluated, and assured education programmes and resources for anyone that works with or cares for young and vulnerable people including teachers, youth workers, community volunteers and mental health specialists.
YGAM Education Programme is City & Guilds assured and their resources are the winners of the Children and Young People now PSHE Award 2020.
The session will last 2.5 hours and will cover:
Upon completion, you will have access to close to 500 resources designed to be used directly with young people covering a broad range of topics and learning outcomes. They aim to build skills, knowledge, and resilience whilst importantly starting the conversations. They have full schemes of work, PowerPoints, lesson plans, topic days, 1:1 activities etc – you can see a sample here.
With research suggesting that 55,000 11-16 year old’s can be classed as a problem gambler it is really important that we start the education and prevention as early as possible.
This course is suitable for Primary (KS2) and Secondary school staff.