Creating Open & Authentic Conversations with Your

Today’s youth experience stressors from a variety of sources, including their peers, family, school and social media. Anxiety relating to these areas can quickly accumulate and become overwhelming for many adolescents if they don’t have a safe outlet to work through them. Within sport, coaches can help to create this safe space by talking openly about mental and emotional health and building these conversations into daily and weekly practice. By adopting this proactive approach to mental health and wellness, you will help your athletes develop tools that will enable them to become healthy and resilient adults.