Youth Series Part 3: Emotion Based Media Literacy Education
Includes a Live Web Event on 12/09/2025 at 1:30 PM (CST)
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Please join us on December 9, 2025 from 1:30-3:00 pm CT with Alison Wood for our third and final youth series!
Media literacy has been proven to counteract effects related to media, violence, alcohol and tobacco, body image issues, eating disorders, and commercialism. The "gamblification" of gaming and the "gamification" of gambling has created a blurred line between games of skill and chance. The legalization of online sports betting has further blurred the lines by embedding gambling into sports culture and social media. Couple the blurred lines with persuasive design, behavior theory and technology, and negative consequences are emerging. This session will explore how youth prevention education focusing on emotion-based media literacy by decoding media messages and persuasive design and gaining mental health literacy through the lens of neurobiology has been shown to be effective in preventing problem gambling and other addictive behaviors and substances.
Objectives:
- Understand how digital media literacy can be utilized as a youth problem gambling prevention intervention.
- Consider utilizing a lesson on digital media literacy in gambling and gaming with youth.
Live and On Demand CE Pending Approval.
This training is sponsored in whole or in part by the Illinois Department of Human Services Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery.
ICPG workshops and trainings provide CEU (continuing education units) through the Illinois Certification Board based on approval for individual trainings.
The State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Division of Professional Regulation (IDFPR) has approved all ICPG workshops and trainings as a Registered Social Worker CE Sponsor. This program is recognized as providing CE hours for: LSW/LCSW and LPC/LCPC under IDFPR license #159.001302.
The International Problem Gambling and Gaming Certification Organization recognizes ICPG as a preferred partner for workshops and trainings in line with the ICGC Level I & II.
Alison Wood
Alison Wood is the NC Problem Gambling Program Youth Prevention Coordinator with TELUS Health. She manages prevention grant programs, trains, and provides technical support on adolescent problematic behaviors in gambling, gaming, and digital media use. She has partnered with researchers to develop curriculum in emotional regulation skills and digital media literacy in gaming and gambling. In addition, she spearheaded an initiative to provide asynchronous modules on the prevention and treatment of gambling, gaming, and digital media modules utilizing cutting edge technology. She is a passionate advocate for youth prevention education and mental health promotion and believes expanded efforts in prevention research is vital.
