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Join the Money Guiders NI Network will be joined but YGAM to discuss how practitioner can navigate gaming and gambling conversations.

Digital Age: Navigating Gaming and Gambling

Join the Money Guiders NI Network will be joined but YGAM to discuss how practitioner can navigate gaming and gambling conversations with children & young people.

About this event and organisation

YGAM is an evidence-led education programme aiming to help prevent gaming and gambling harms. This information session is in place to develop your understanding of gaming and gambling, enabling you to have conversations with your service users about the potential harms.

· Gambling: exploring the influences on young people

· Gaming: discussing the benefits and concerns

· The blurred lines between gaming and gambling How to spot the signs of harm

· Useful tips to create a healthy gaming balance

· Where to get help and support

Who is leading the session?

Shaun Paskin

Who should attend?

All money guiders and practitioners are welcome to attend this free event. This could include (but not limited to) staff in Northern Ireland who are supporting service users particular familes, parents or young people with difficult conversations around gaming and gambling.

Accessibility

If you have accessibility requirements, please inform us when you register by emailing moneyguidersni@reed.com and we will do our best to meet them. Participants should always remember to keep their own client and customer details confidential and not disclose personal information about them.

Keep Up to Date with the Money Guiders Northern Ireland Network

· Contact: moneyguidersni@reed.com

· Register with the Money Guiders Northern Ireland Network here

· LinkedIn Page here

· Facebook Page here

· Twitter here

The Money Guiders Programme

Money Guiders is a programme run by The Money Pensions Service MaPS, which seeks to help money guidance practitioners improve their knowledge, skills and confidence. Everything that the Money Guiders programme offers centres around the Money Guidance Competency Framework - it's there to help you better understand the full breadth and depth of money related issues that fall outside of the regulated financial advice service sector - the things you talk to your customers about.

Technical Domian 1. Knowing your customer Tier 1 and Tier 2.

Technical Domian 2. Debt Tier 1

Technical Domain 3. Borrowing Tier 1

Foundation Level - Signposting customers: all practitioners – no matter their job role – must be able to elicit simple, information from the customer in order to signpost them to appropriate sources of further support, advice or information.

Before attending this session, you could spend some time considering the challenges you face in your work, specifically when you provide help and guidance to your clients or service users around money issues.