To help you get started on your essay, we have compiled a list of gambling-related resources and links:
PLEASE NOTE: The following lists are potential starting points for research and are not intended to be exhaustive. Participants are encouraged to do further research to support their arguments. It is important that participants draw from a variety of sources (books, magazine and newspaper articles, websites, research articles and reports, videos, discussion with friends, teachers, etc) when researching the essay topic.
Nova Scotia Gaming Foundation (NSGF) website
The NSGF website is a great place to begin your research.
Take the time to explore the NSGF library, which includes archives of NSGF newsletters, Touchpointand Dialogue. Both publications contain helpful gambling-related information that will help you write a thoughtful and informed essay.
Also in the NSGF website, the Resource Library contains Research Articles and Reports that can be searched by location (Nova Scotia, Canada or International) and/or date. The Resource Library also contains a list of current and past gambling-themed News Articles and Announcements from local, national and international newspapers and magazines. In the Search By Theme section, you will find articles, research and reports organized by topic, including Youth and Gambling.
Another great destination to broaden your search is the NSGF Links page, which lists provincial, national, and international gambling-related websites.
Clean Break(trailer above) Produced by the International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviours, Clean Break is a docudrama intended to enhance adolescents' understanding of the consequences and potential dangers associated with excessive gambling, and inform them about gambling as a problematic behaviour.
NOTE: This media clip is only the film's trailer.
Deal Me In Deal Me In is a youth-made documentary about gambling and its potential impacts, created out of the Youth Voices Gambling Project, the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, and the YMCA Youth Gambling Awareness Program.
Gambling Boys Directed and written by Laura Turek, Gambling Boys offers a poignant and lively picture of teens' fascination with gambling and the harsh consequences of getting hooked. The film was produced by EyeSteel Films in assocation with CBC News Network.
Other helpful websites
Gambling - Addiction Services, Department of Health Promotion and Protection
