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Welcome to the supplemental learning for the Project Build-Up Learning Academy: Promoting and Providing Problem Gambling Services to Latinx Communities. This video is hosted by Dr. Heather Gray, Director of Academic Affairs at the Division on Addiction at Cambridge Health Alliance. In this video, Dr. Gray interviews Ms. Marylin Marquez Beckley about problem gambling prevention and treatment. Ms. Beckley is a bilingual Licensed Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor in Washington, DC. She has over nine years of experience offering counseling that focuses on healing and resiliency towards challenges faced from trauma and anxiety, specifically related to political violence, immigration, community/gang violence, sexual abuse/assault, violence against women and children, human trafficking, and cybersex trafficking with the Latinx immigrant population and other minority cultures.

Welcome to the supplemental learning for the Project Build-Up Learning Academy: Promoting and Providing Problem Gambling Services to Latinx Communities. This video is hosted by Ms. Caitlyn Fong, Community Health Educator at the Division on Addiction at Cambridge Health Alliance. In this video, Ms. Fong interviews Dr. Alexia DeLeon about historical trauma and culturally responsive care for Latinx individuals experiencing problem gambling. Dr. DeLeon is an Assistant Professor and Program Director at Lewis & Clark College for the Professional Mental Health Counseling – Addictions Specialization program. She was the founding director of Lewis & Clark’s Latino Problem Gambling Services program that launched in 2017 and served over 75 clients in its first year of operation. She has been involved in providing treatment for those impacted by addiction and recovery for many years. 

Welcome to the supplemental learning for the Project Build-Up Learning Academy: Promoting and Providing Problem Gambling Services to Latinx Communities. This video is hosted by Ms. Nakita Sconsoni, Community Health Educator at the Division on Addiction at Cambridge Health Alliance. In this video, Ms. Sconsoni interviews Mr. Jose Garcia about the impacts of legalized land-based and online gambling on the Latinx community. Mr. Garcia has been the Director of culturally-specific and linguistic services at New Horizons Programs since 2003. He has been in the gambling and addictions field for 27 years. He is currently on the Board of Directors for the Mental Health and Addiction Certification Board of Oregon. Mr. Garcia is the chair of the Hispanic Advisory Committee for the City of Hermiston, Oregon, where he works with local and state representatives. He has been a member of the Multicultural Advisory Committee on Problem Gambling at the Oregon Health Authority in Salem, Oregon for 14 years.

Welcome to the supplemental learning for the Project Build-Up Learning Academy: Promoting and Providing Problem Gambling Services to Latinx Communities. This video is hosted by Ms. Kira Landauer, Community Health Educator at the Division on Addiction at Cambridge Health Alliance. In this video, Ms. Landauer interviews Dr. Mary Cuadrado about reasons why Hispanic individuals call problem gambling helplines and its implications for problem gambling services. Dr. Cuadrado is currently a professor and administrator at Mercy College in New York State. She has been in academia for over 30 years at various universities throughout the United States. Her area of expertise is addictions – including alcohol, drugs, and gambling – with a particular focus on the Hispanic experience. As a Fulbright Scholar, she conducted research on recruitment and retention techniques used among drug and alcohol treatment programs throughout Mexico to learn best practices to reach Hispanics in the United States. She has worked in a variety of settings as an evaluator of addictions treatment programs. She was on the Board of the Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling for over a decade. Dr. Cuadrado has published in top addictions and criminal justice journals and co-authored the book Traditional Family Values and Substance Abuse.

Welcome to “Problem Gambling Among Military Service Members and Veterans: Insights from Lived Experience and Research.” This interview is hosted by Dr. Heather Gray, Director of Academic Affairs at the Division on Addiction at Cambridge Health Alliance. Dr. Gray interviews Mr. Dave Yeager and Dr. Shane Kraus. Mr. Dave Yeager is a US Army veteran in recovery for compulsive gambling. He is active in the prevention and recovery support communities. Currently pursuing a Masters of Social Work, Mr. Yeager co-chairs the National Council on Problem Gambling’s Military Committee. Dr. Shane Kraus is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is interested in using behavioral, epidemiological, and neurobiological methods to assess factors that contribute to the development of addictive behaviors and other co-occurring psychiatric disorders among high-risk groups, including US military veterans.

In order to view this webinar, please sign in with an email address. No separate login is required. Recent research indicates that military veterans have a higher rate of gambling disorder than the adult general public. This webinar highlights new research on gambling problems among veterans.

Ask An Expert: How Can Providers Better Promote and Provide Problem Gambling Services to Asian American Community Members? Dr. Wooksoo Kim is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Buffalo and co-founder and director of the School’s Immigrant and Refugee Research Institute. In this video, Dr. Kim discusses cultural beliefs, adaptation, and ambivalence about gambling among older Asian immigrants, and the value of asking about positive and negative experiences with gambling in a clinical context.

Ask An Expert: How Can Providers Better Promote and Provide Problem Gambling Services to Asian American Community Members? Dr. Heather Wardle is social scientist and Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In this video, Dr. Wardle discusses the influence of acculturation, advertising, and availability on migrant gambling, protective factors and barriers to help-seeking, and considerations that public health workers and treatment providers should keep in mind when treating problem gambling among migrants.