Our mission

The Problem Gambling Foundation's mission is to eliminate harm caused by gambling by providing counselling and support throughout New Zealand for individuals and families.

The Foundation is committed to health promotion that contributes to more responsible gambling through community education and the development of regulations and standards. Counselling is free of charge to the gambler, their family and others affected by problem gambling.

PGF believes in:

Informing Change: Our Research Director works in collaboration with leading researchers from tertiary institutions to ensure the best quality of evidence-based information, which informs training to the PGF clinicians and others in the problem gambling sector.  As a service leader PGF undertakes research and develops resources for PGF and other problem gambling services.

Changing Lives: Our treatment and clinical services are world class. We provide specialist problem gambling counselling and group therapy throughout NZ. Our Asian service team also provides counselling in six Asian languages.

Changing Communities: Our Public Health team is the first dedicated team to work on problem gambling issues using a health promotion approach. Our Asian service team works holistically with Asian communities to strengthen their resilience to problem gambling.

Changing Environments: Our advocacy services seek to create a safer environment for recreational gambling. We are active in developing national and local gambling policies. Our public health team works with territorial local authorities and their communities to develop gambling policies that eliminate the harm from gambling.