A Parent’s Guide to Sports Betting & Conversations
This guide is here to help you pull back the curtain. We aren’t aiming for a “Just Say No” campaign—that rarely works at a time where gambling tax revenue funds our schools and bridges. Instead, we’re aiming for a “Know the Game” campaign. This is a comprehensive guidebook for parents navigating the 2026 sports betting landscape.
It’s designed to be a “living document” - something you can reference whether your child is 13, 18, or 22. By providing parents the resources and tools, this guidebook provides context, recommendations, and support so that you can engage with your teens and emerging adults around gambling and sports betting.
Whether it is the current landscape, current language or how to have a caring conversation, this is resource guide made for parents.
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This guidebook is a collection of topics focused on understanding the various facets, mechanics, impact, and resources around this rapidly evolving form of gambling within the state of Illinois. It is NOT a “how-to” guide; rather, it is an information database in guidebook form centered on some of our most vulnerable populations—high school and college-aged individuals—with the intended audience being:
- Clinical / Behavioral Health Service Providers
- Educators
- General Service Providers (Regulators, Legislators, Peer Support, etc.)
This guide will provide the user with essential information on how to best support, educate, and equip teens and emerging adults as they explore their individual relationship with sports wagering. Using the latest information and data from across the United States, the guidebook will serve as a starting point to understanding various topics and how sports gambling intersects with other areas of an individual’s experiences
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