Youth Gambling in Oregon

& Lane County Prevention

Program Efforts

For information in Lane County, contact:

Julie Hynes, MA, CPS
Lane County Prevention Program
Julie.Hynes@co.lane.or.us | 541.682.3928
www.preventionlane.org/gambling

For more information and other resources, contact:

Julie Hynes | julie.hynes@co.lane.or.us | 541.682.3928 | www.preventionlane.org

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Youth Gambling: One Component of
Problem Behaviors

For more information and other resources, contact:

Julie Hynes | julie.hynes@co.lane.or.us | 541.682.3928 | www.preventionlane.org

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Past 30-Day Activities, Student Wellness Survey, 2010
Gambling, substance use, and mental health among Oregon youth, 2010
Grade 6 Grade 8 Grade 11
50 45.4
38.2 38.2
40 36.3
Percentage

30
24.3
22.5 21 22.1 23.4
20 17.7
14.3
12.4
8.1 8.9 8.2
10 6.7 6.1
4.8
2 2.4 2.7
0
Gambling Alcohol Binge Marijuana Cigarettes Depression Psychological
distress

This graph shows that gambling is the most commonly risk behavior among youth in Oregon, yet it is not on the radar screen of most
people. Often teachers or parents will say “we just don’t see it”, when problem gambling prevention talks address this issue—even
though they don’t see it, it is clearly happening and generally without guidance or parameters set by parents, teachers or others.

For more information and other resources, contact:

Julie Hynes | julie.hynes@co.lane.or.us | 541.682.3928 | www.preventionlane.org

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What’s Increasing the Most?

Many of the risk behaviors of concern are decreasing over time, while youth gambling is significantly increasing. More attention needs
to be paid to this important and emerging risk behavior, particularly when you view it in terms of the correlation between youth
gambling and these other, more well known, behaviors—the next series of slides will shed some light on this.

For more information and other resources, contact:

Julie Hynes | julie.hynes@co.lane.or.us | 541.682.3928 | www.preventionlane.org

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Youth Gambling and other Addictive Behaviors

For more information and other resources, contact:

Julie Hynes | julie.hynes@co.lane.or.us | 541.682.3928 | www.preventionlane.org

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 Youth Gambling and Other Risky Behaviors

Percent of youth who attempted suicide in the past

year

30%
25%
Percentage

20%
15% 11.3%
9.0%
10% 7.2%
5.0%
5%
0%
Grade 8 Grade 11

Percent of youth that attempted suicide in the past

year Did not bet/gamble more than
wanted to
30%
25%
Bet/gambled more than
21.0%
18.6% wanted to
Percentage

20%
15%
10.1%
10% 8.0%
Youth who reported gambling more than they wanted to (a
5% For more information and sign
possible otherofresources,
a gamblingcontact:
problem) also reported higher rates
Julie Hynes | julie.hynes@co.lane.or.us | 541.682.3928 | www.preventionlane.org
of having attempted suicide in the past year than students who
0%
did not bet more than they wanted to.
Grade 8 Grade 11 6
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Most Parents Believe:

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How Can We Help You?

For more information and other resources, contact:

Julie Hynes | julie.hynes@co.lane.or.us | 541.682.3928 | www.preventionlane.org

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Know that Help is Free!

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