This free, online training program is specifically designed for coaches, athletic directors and other trusted advisors who play a critical role in student-athletes’ lives. Parents, guardians and other stakeholders in a young athlete’s life are also encouraged to take the training.
The training explains:
- The prevalence and scope of mental health issues that student-athletes experience.
- The stigma about mental health that prevents so many athletes from seeking help.
- The responsibility coaches have to make mental health awareness an important part of their coaching strategies.
- The tools and resources coaches need to recognize and respond to mental health issues when they occur.
The training includes a simple but highly effective step-by-step guide on how to talk with and respond to your athletes about their mental health.
We call it LASRR.
Training Overview
This training combines video, voice-over, photos, graphics and quizzes.
It takes less than 40 minutes to complete. A small amount of time for the lives you will improve and the lives you may save. At the end of the training you will receive a certificate that confirms completion of the Coach’s Mental Health Awareness Training.
Listen
Listen
Let them tell their story
Use minimal encouragers
Accept
Accept
Believe their account of their experience
Don’t investigate or adjudicate
Ask about suicide, homicide and/or violence
Support
Support
Lend ego strength without directing or dominating
Create a “holding environment”
Refer
Refer
Use your relationship to help the referral
Know before needed to whom you will refer Facilitate the process
Report
Report
Must know the limits of confidentiality and student privacy
