Services:

• Train professionals to screen, assess, and develop prevention and treatment plans for people who have problem gambling issues.
• Contract agencies and individual providers to provide problem gambling treatment services.
• Sustaining youth programs in urban and rural communities to prevent gambling.
• Certification of problem gambling counselors under the Division of Behavioral Health.
• Ensure a 24/7 live answer helpline for those seeking help or information about problem gambling.
• Provide education through prevention and outreach activities about problem gambling in local communities.
• See our Training and Resources page for more help.
• Finding Treatment for Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Gambling Addictions

GAP is a program that uses an advisory council, service providers, and consumers to plan what it does. Its goal is to help use the state dollars it is given to direct services, and reduce problem gambling for all Nebraskans.

Goals:

• Provide access to treatment and educational services across the state (see Signs and Symptoms)
• Increase treatment services statewide through training and behavioral health integration.
• Maintain a statewide Network of Providers
• Insure provisions of services.

• State Committee on Problem Gambling
• LB1058 Slip Law
• GAP Proclamation 2008

Nebraska Facts:

• Problem Gambling in Nebraska Fact Sheet

Nebraska Reports & Studies:

• GAP Biennial Report - Fiscal Years 2006-2007

For more information, contact:

Maya Chilese - Interim Manager
Eric Hunsberger - Program Manager (Deployed)
Nancy Heller - Treatment Coordinator
Gamblers Assistance Program
DHHS-Division of Behavioral Health
P.O. Box 98925
Lincoln, NE 68509-8926
Phone: 402-471-7851
Fax: 402-471-7859

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