Problem Gambling Awareness Month March 2025
Each March, the Center actively promotes Problem Gambling Awareness Month, a grassroots public awareness and outreach campaign established by the National Council on Problem Gambling to educate the general public and healthcare professionals about the warning signs of problem gambling and raise awareness about the help and resources available.
This March 2025, join the Center to promote AWARENESS within your organization and your community about the risks of gambling and the resources available for help and hope. And take ACTION on March 11, 2025 during National Problem Gambling Screening Day.
Problem Gambling Awareness Month 2025
An Awareness Toolkit for Community Health Organizations, Providers and Preventionists
A Screening Guide for Behavioral Health Providers
The PGAM screening guide was developed to encourage healthcare providers to screen clients for problem gambling. This guide provides the tools and resources to integrate the screening of Problem Gambling/Gambling Disorder into your agency’s current processes and protocols.
Problem Gambling Awareness Month
Materials for Download
Get The Facts
Materials for Download
Take ACTION
- Utilize your organizations’ social media and post messages regularly during March.
- Promote and utilize screening tools on Problem Gambling Screening Day, March 11, 2025.
- Organize or participate in community events to promote screening and awareness of problem gambling.
- Invite the Center’s Peer Recovery Support Specialists to share their lived experience at your recovery groups.
- Add the Maryland Helpline 1-800-GAMBLER number and help seeker website (helpmygamblingproblem.org) to all your messaging.
- Visit the Center’s Resources page for additional organizations to collaborate with on PAGAM activities.
- Order a variety of professionally printed outreach media and awareness materials at no cost from the Center by filling out and emailing
For more information on the Center’s PGAM 2025 activities & resources, please contact us at 667-214-2120 or email:
- Heather Eshleman, Prevention Manager (eshleman@som.umaryland.edu)
- Mike Kafes, Communications Manager (mkafes@som.umaryland.edu).
PGAM Social Media Shareables
KICK OFF
March is Problem Gambling Awareness Month.
Learn more about this hidden addiction.
#PGAM2025 #MDCEPG #ProblemGambling
https://www.mdproblemgambling.com/problem-gambling-awareness-month-2025/
AWARENESS
By fostering a deeper understanding of the issue, we can encourage empathy, reduce barriers to treatment, and provide support to those affected by gambling-related harm.
#PGAM2025 #MDCEPG #ProblemGambling
https://www.mdproblemgambling.com/problem-gambling-awareness-month-2025/
Change
Gambling leaving your life to CHANCE?
Help is available to make a CHANGE!
#PGAM2025
https://www.mdproblemgambling.com/problem-gambling-awareness-month-2025/
Family Tree
Family history of #problemgambling?
You could be at risk.
#PGAM2025 #MDCEPG
https://www.mdproblemgambling.com/problem-gambling-awareness-month-2025/
DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE
Problem Gambling affects people of any age, gender, religion, social status, or education.
#PGAM2025 #MDCEPG
https://www.mdproblemgambling.com/problem-gambling-awareness-month-2025/
SCREENING
Tuesday, March 11, is National Gambling Disorder Screening Day.
Does your healthcare provider know how to connect you with #ProblemGambling treatment?
Find more information at https://www.mdproblemgambling.com/screening-day-2025/
#PGAM2025 #MDCEPG
Selection Sunday
It is estimated that 1 in 10 Americans will complete a tournament bracket,
and the median size of a wager on a game outcome was $30.
If you bet, are your wagers higher than the norm?
#PGAM2025 #ProblemGambling #MDCEPG #MarchMadness
https://www.mdproblemgambling.com/march-madness
Sports Betting
This year, the Center has added a new section on its websites. This new “sports betting” resource section contains pages where anyone can get:
- Answers to frequently asked questions
- Information on the risks of mobile sports betting
- Tips on playing responsibly
- Resources on screening, getting help, and/or finding a counselor
Whether you are interested in help for yourself, a loved one or you are a professional looking for information and resources for your clients, please check out
