The contest is held as part of a campaign aimed at preventing problematic online gambling consumption in the Argentine province.
Argentina.- Within the framework of the campaign aimed at preventing and raising awareness about problematic online gambling consumption in the province of Catamarca, the Secretary of Youth Policies, and the Provincial Credit and Benefits Fund, through the Sub-Management of Games and the Department of Responsible Gaming, organized the contest "My game, my rules" aimed at sixth-year high school students.
The participants of the contest will have time until November 25 to present an advertising video-spot with the goal of sensitizing and raising awareness among the population about the theme of responsible gaming. The winner of the contest will take the total cost of the graduation dinner for their entire school year, and the second place will win 50 percent of the total cost of the dinner, reported by the local media Radiónica.
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In other news, last week, the government of the province of Catamarca advanced in consolidating measures aimed at combating problematic gambling and the access of young people and adolescents to betting sites.
On one hand, the provincial government published a decree that creates the “Plan for prevention, approach, and awareness”, aimed at children and adolescents. Within the government decree, it is indicated that it is “imperative to adopt effective preventive measures to educate, sensitize, raise awareness, and protect mainly the child and youth population against possible problematic consumptions, as well as the risks associated with pathological gambling”.
At the same time, it maintains that “it is a priority to enact preventive measures to avoid or reduce this scourge, therefore an interdisciplinary approach to this problem is promoted with the joint work between the Provincial Credit and Benefits Fund (Capresca) and the ministries of Education, Health, Social Development, Security, and Science and Technological Innovation”.
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