Resources for Providers

Helpful Links & Docs

Whether you’re a counselor, primary care physician, or any other kind of healthcare practitioner, your patients lives’ are being impacted by problem gambling.

The following free resources are made available by the Illinois Council on Problem Gambling to help you and your clients identify at-risk or problematic gambling, which may in turn help address the other reasons they are there to see you.

Claiming CEUs

30

Continuing Education Credits

30 Hour Problem Gambling Basic Training

This 30 hour training series will highlight all the beginning needs for counselors and other addiction trained professionals of the needs for patients struggling with Problem Gambling Issues. Once registered you will have 90 days to complete the course.

This basic training addresses 100% of the required material for certification.

Participants can claim 30 CEUs from the Illinois Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Professional Certification Association (IAODAPCA).

Online Trainings

EDGE-SBIRT Virtual Tutorial

This free course will teach you how to use the Eisenberg Disordered Gambling Emphasized SBIRT Screening Tool so that you may confidently implement it in your own practice.

The tutorial should take approximately one hour and allows you to experience various scenarios where the G-SBIRT tool can be used.

30 Hour Problem Gambling Basic Training

This 30 hour training series will highlight all the beginning needs for counselors and other addiction trained professionals of the needs for patients struggling with Problem Gambling Issues.

Each participant will have an in-depth understanding of Problem Gambling patients and the best methods of treatment.

Screening Tool

The EDGE-SBIRT is a comprehensive, integrated, public health approach to delivering early intervention and treatment services for persons with gambling disorders, as well as those at risk of developing these disorders.

Screening quickly assesses the severity of gambling disorder and identifies the appropriate level of treatment.
Brief intervention focuses on increasing insight and awareness regarding gambling disorder and motivation toward behavioral change.
Referral to treatment provides those identified as needing more extensive treatment with access to specialty care.

Click the button below to download the G-SBIRT Tool.

Helpful Links

Organizations

Are You Really Winning? / Illinois Helpline – The Illinois Helpline is the only statewide, public resource for finding problem gambling support and treatment services in Illinois.

IDHS Substance Use Prevention & Recovery (SUPR) Provider Information – Collection of links provided by the Illinois Department of Health and Human Services.

National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) – The National Council on Problem Gambling is the only national nonprofit organization that seeks to minimize the economic and social costs associated with gambling addiction. NCPG is neutral on legalized gambling.

Research & Data

2021 Statewide Assessment of Gambling and Problem Gambling in Illinois – Commissioned by IDHS and conducted by researchers at Health Resources in Action (HRIA), the assessment reports on the prevalence of different types of gambling in the state, the availability of treatment and other services, the prevalence of problem gambling among different groups, and overall attitudes about gambling.