Become a YGAM certified practitioner in 2016
Do you work with young people or adults under 25 years and support them with Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) in your school, college, community centre or university?
It is likely you deliver workshops around safe sex, responsible drinking and mental health, but do you deliver anything around the potential risks associated with problem gambling or social gaming?
Working with the PSHE Association and Ofqual approved awarding body ASDAN, we have developed the UK’s first accredited, gambling-related harm, licensed training course and quality-assured resources. Our course and resources have been written for professionals and volunteers who support young people and adults up to the age of 25 years.
To become a licensed YGAM practitioner and gain complimentary access to our accredited resources you are invited to attend our one-day structured training course. When you have completed this course you will be granted access to the YGAM Cloud where you will be able to download all our resources.
Our one-day training course will cover the following modules:
- Background on youth gambling in the UK to increase your subject knowledge.
- Introduction and familiarisation with the accredited YGAM curriculum.
- Review existing and create tailored lesson plans or scheme of works for your organisation that you can take away and use immediately.
- Practical tips on delivering the YGAM programme as part of PSHE in the curriculum.
- Review & adopted baseline testing and measuring young people’s progression for your organisation.
- Review the extensive resource material available on the YGAM Cloud.
- Understand how you can offer young people ASDAN certificates to those whom participate in learning.
All the YGAM resources have been created by teachers, youth workers, young people, gambling industry leaders, health professionals and former gambling addicts. Ultimately the YGAM programme has been designed to build digital resilience among young people and raise awareness of the potential mental health and financial impacts of problem gambling & social gaming.
Facilitation will be provided by the YGAM Director of Education, Adrian Sladdin a former teacher who has worked in education his entire career and YGAM Chief Executive Lee Willows, a former gambling addict who has also worked in education and youth development for over 25 years.
After you have completed the one-day training and delivered ten hours of workshops or lessons to young people, you then have the option to become an official YGAM certificated practitioner.
Attend one-day course (7 hours structured learning) to familiarise yourself with the YGAM programme. Key learning aims:
- Understand Youth Gambling in the UK
- Understand the YGAM curriculum
- Understand baseline testing & measuring progression
- Review YGAM resources / create specific lesson plan for your educational establishment
- Next steps to become a YGAM certificated practitioner
Deliver a minimum of 10 hours worth of workshops to young people.
Provide YGAM with baseline testing & progression evidence to demonstrate young people’s learning.
YGAM review baseline evidence and sample young person’s learning.
ASDAN Practitioners certificate awarded to practitioner within 28 days.