Ladies Friday Night Launch: Focus on Gaming and Gambling

For our First Ladies Friday Night Catch Up, we had guest speakers Sarah Quirk from Banyule Health and Abir Melhem from Arabic Wefare join us for a presentation on the correlation between gaming and gambling.

They shared some valuable resources to support parents in English and in Arabic.

Useful Resources:

• Common Sense Media – Tool for parents to navigate the digital world with their kids. Find out what you need to know about apps, games, tv shows, movies, book’s ect and read reviews from other parents.

• Taming the Technology – Access advice on how to activate parental controls on your devices.

• The big issues – Access advice on how to deal with any online safety issues (cyberbullying, unwanted contact and grooming ect.)

• Understanding computer game purchases and potential links to gambling IN ENGLISH

• Understanding computer game purchases and potential links to gambling IN ARABIC