Community Convo May '21: Coping Strategies, Caroline Brackette, PHD
Channel: The Steve Fund
Date: 2021-08-31

Steve Fund Community Conversation
Minding' My Body: Race, Mental Health and Student-Athletes of Color

Co-sponsored by the Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sports, University of Michigan

Moderated by Ketra L. Armstrong, PhD
Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sports, U-M

Panelists
Caroline Brackette, PhD
Abigail Eiler, LMSW
Wilsa Charles Malveaux, MD/MA
Kweku Ramel Smith, PhD, LP

Student-athletes represent a distinguished population of resilient and high performing individuals. However, for student-athletes of color, winning often requires them to also defeat the mighty foe of racism. In honor of May as Mental Health Awareness Month, this Community Conversation will include a panel of mental health experts who work with student-athletes as they center racism as a mental health crisis, address the impact of racial trauma on the mental and physical well-being of student-athletes of color, and offer recommendations for healing and supporting this unique population of students. Please join us for this conversation to learn how you may be a ‘player' in this game! Open to student-athletes of color and all who support them.