While the program began before the COVID-19 pandemic, student athletes need the extra mental health support more than ever.
In some ways, Chris Mutebi, a senior at University of Detroit Jesuit High School, felt like he didn’t have a junior year. The COVID-19 pandemic wrecked in-person classes, interfered in the football season and canceled hang outs with friends. All that led to some feelings of stress.
“I look at it like a blessing. So I had more opportunities to reflect,” he said. “Then as I step out into the real world, I’m more prepared.” “It’s real simple. ‘Notice,’ notice what is good, what is right so I can notice what is different. ‘Invite’ myself to start a conversation, invite myself to let the person know what I noticed in them that I see that’s not typical behavior … ‘Challenge’ that person to talk about it. Challenge that person to possibly get resources and at that point I’m going to give resources,” Christy Buck, the executive director of the Mental Health Foundation of Western Michigan, told Snow.
“I would say just being more engaged,” Mutebi said. “Just sitting down as a team and being able to be open with him from player to player. Just being able to come up to him and really tell him anything.”“It goes back to those relationships,” he told Snow. “We want to know about them, not just as an athlete, not just as an academic, but what’s going on in their life? I think when you build those relationships, you start to build the trust.
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