Treatment and counselling is structured around a dedicated problem gambling counselling line and a nationally distributed team of skilled and experienced treatment professionals, who are all active in clinical practice.

The existing NRGP problem gambling counselling line and treatment network is a well-established, readily accessible gambling resource which has acquired much experience in providing a 24/7 service. In its current form, it is able to deliver a cost efffective, needs-driven and user-friendly, multilingual service nationally.

The service has a proven track record with a now documented study of treatment outcomes which shows quite conclusively, that purely as a treatment intervention, the service is able to deliver treatment successfully.

Dr Rodger Meyer, deputy-director of the NRGP

• Treatment and counselling services are available free of charge in nearly 50 cities and towns in southern Africa, including Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland, to anyone requiring help with gambling problems, not just to gamblers at casinos.
• Money Sense: 37 clients have been referred via the network of treatment professionals to Money Sense for debt management services from May 2007 to end February 2008

For further information contact Dr Meyer on rodger@responsiblegambling.co.za

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Treatment Centres

OUTPATIENT TREATMENT COUNSELLING NETWORK

Eastern Cape
Butterworth
East London
Grahamstown
Mthatha
Port Elizabeth

Free State
Bloemfontein
Welkom
Bethlehem

Gauteng
Johannesburg
Soweto
Vanderbijlpark

North Rand
Auckland Park
Braamfontein
Randburg
Sandton

Pretoria
Hatfield
Centurion

East Rand
Alberton
Benoni
Boksburg
Brakpan
Germiston
Kempton Park
Springs

West Rand
Roodepoort

KwaZulu-Natal
Durban
Empangeni
Glenwood
Newcastle
Phoenix
Pietermaritzburg
Richards Bay
Southport
Tongaat

Limpopo
Louis Trichardt (Makhado)
Polokwane
Tzaneen

Mpumalanga
Hazyview
Nelspruit
Secunda
Witbank

Northern Cape
Kimberley
Upington

North-West
Klerksdorp
Mafikeng
Mmabatho
Rustenburg

Western Cape
Cape Town

Tygerberg
Bellville
Goodwood
Parow/Vasco

Helderberg
Strand
Somerset West

Oostenberg
Kuils River

Southern Suburbs
Kenilworth
Rondebosch

Cape Flats
Mitchells Plain

Southern Cape
George
Mossel Bay

Overberg
Caledon

Breederivier Valley
Worcester

West Coast
Saldanha

Swaziland
Manzini

Lesotho
Maseru

Namibia
Swakopmund
Windhoek

Inpatient Treatment Centres
Cape Town
Johannesburg
Bloemfontein
Durban
East London

New Treatment Professionals and delegates with Professor Ladouceur

Two workshops featuring Professor Robert Ladouceur as main speaker were held for the NRGP’s treatment professionals last year – in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Treatment professionals from Gauteng, North-West Province, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, Free State and KwaZulu-Natal attended the workshop held in Johannesburg in July 2008.

Left to right: Sipiwe Maqutu (Durban); Sheleen Van Dort (Sanca Louveld); Dr Busi Dlamini; Nikki Meiring (Swakopmund); Lindiwe Maseko; Prof Robert Ladouceur; Helen Pienaar (Bethlehem); Helena Galloway (Nelspruit); Eva Chabalala (Soweto); Dominique Mamet (Southport KZN); Mamoletsane Mota	Back Row: Left to right - Carol Johnson; Lin Dillon; Ivan Lubbe; Lindiwe Maseko; Sheleen Van Dort; Lee Wilcox Centre row: Left to right - Caroline Tseeke; Helena Galloway; Ma'elize De Wet; Professor Robert Ladouceur; Caroline Monyai; Nikki Meiring; Lucille Booth; Frani Van Royyen; Mamoletsane Mota. Front Row: Left to right - Tracy Helps; Sipiwe Maqutu; Carol Schonegevel; Eva Chabalala
Back row: Left to right - Helen Pienaar; Luzelle Naude; Tony Subramony; Jan Louis Stevens; Nadine Dunn; JP De Jager; Ronel Farreira Front row: Left to right - Susan Van Niekerk; Thami Ginindza; Marika Pieterson; Boitumela Moses; Sonnet Seegeers; Khanyisile Twala; Professor Robert Ladouceur; Nkateko Manabe; Zola Ngendane; Dominique Marnet; Mankuku Molefe
	Professor Robert Ladoucer