A4 January 11, 2013 The Richmond News
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RASS’ executive director, Rick Dubras, hopes gambling addicts will still get the right help.
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Continued from page 3 But with the loss of the gaming addiction contract — which is now contracted out privately — Dubras admitted the focus on gambling addiction has been reduced. “Our concern is that we no longer know all about what’s going on in the community and if we don’t know, the city doesn’t know,” he said, referring to a long-standing partnership the society has had with the city in tackling problem gambling. “The partnership was forged to make sure the casino was doing no harm to the city. “We were there to manage the consequences and to make sure the community has access to the right services.” Dubras said, for example, debt counselors would refer people to RASS for help. Now, they phone the gambling hotline and will get referred to help from there. “Is that better or worse? We don’t really know, that’s the problem,” added Dubras. “It’s always best to have the one-stop-shop that we offered. We could monitor it and deal
with it accordingly. “Some people also prefer building up a personal relationship.” One of the many challenges faced by RASS over the last year has been the drop in “contacts” made with people. “One of the ways we track our contacts is at events, the amount of people we come into contact with, the amount of people who attend the events,” said Dubras. “This has decreased because we’ve lost the staff to evaluate these figures.” With every cloud there is, of course, the proverbial silver lining. At RASS that takes the shape of energy being switched over to prevention and education in the city’s school system. RASS aims to ramp up community outreach with a number of addiction prevention initiatives planned for 2013. “We need to continue to break down the stigma and our funders are always looking for us to produce new ways to deal with the addictions, so the work never stops,” said Dubras.
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