Presented by: Jeff Marotta and Sam DeMello
The rise in legalized sports and mobile betting presents the need for new strategies and tools to address gambling harm. This presentation will discuss a comprehensive digital health platform that empowers users to create and maintain a healthy relationship with gambling, be that quitting, reducing, or maintaining. The technology is designed to appeal to the new generation of mobile and online gamblers by utilizing gamification features within an app, conversational language, and multi-method teaching techniques and change strategies. The development approach and preliminary evaluation data will be presented and discussed.
Jeff Marotta
President & Senior Consultant, Problem Gambling Solutions, Inc.
Jeff has specialized in the field of problem gambling for 25 years with over 200 publications and national presentations. Jeff has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno and is an Internationally Certified Gambling Counselor II.
Sam DeMello
Founder, Evive
Sam is an experienced early-stage startup builder, with over a decade of experience. He is also a person with a gambling addiction in recovery. He combines his professional experience in the Technology and Digital Therapeutics industries with his lived experience as a person in recovery to build technology-first solutions to reduce gambling harm in the growing community of gamblers.
Visit the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling for more information like this as well as resources for help in the State of Nevada. www.nevadacouncil.org/