Safeling Education Guide

Guidebook for youth professionals

Practical resource for coaches, physical education teachers, youth workers, educators

This is a practical manual that help you prevent harmful gambling behaviors among young people using the power of sport, teamwork, and play. It shows you how to use Education Through Sport to make the tricky stuff (odds, randomness, near-misses, slick sponsorships and in-play hype) visible and understandable, without lectures or scare tactics.

If you're a youth worker, coach, teacher, educator, club volunteer, parent, or someone building a community program, you'll find clear foundations, step-by-step sessions you can run tomorrow, guidance for creating safe, inclusive spaces, quick ways to involve parents, and simple questions to reflect on impact. Start small with one activity, build a short series, invite parents for a short hands-on events, and then adapt the flow to your group - indoors or outdoors, low-resource, mixed abilities, different ages. You'll help young people strengthen risk literacy, emotional control under pressure, team belonging, and help-seeking, skills that outlast any single workshop.

Download the Safeling Guidebook, try an activity this week, and tell us what worked so we can keep improving.

Educational Package Development

Our journey to creating a practical guide for youth professionals

This is a concise, research-informed package that we used to turn complex youth gambling risks into clear lessons, short videos, quizzes, and a sports-activity guide you can run with your group right away. It distills insights from Serbia, Greece, and Germany into simple information and steps, so you can use them to plan your activities to teach risk literacy, build self-regulation, and engage parents without heavy prep. In one place, you'll find a clear introduction to why youth gambling is rising, a methodology that explains how we gathered insights across Germany, Serbia, and Greece, and a rich set of findings, from survey snapshots on when and how young people start gambling to focus groups with educators and coaches.

The Safeling project partners drew on this educational output to shape a practical guidebook that helps youth professionals prevent harmful gambling behaviors among young people through sport, teamwork, and play.