The Accelerate Mental Health Workshop is a continuation of the learning from the ACT! Mental Health Awareness Certification. While ACT! focused primarily on your knowledge and skills to support mental health as an individual within your athletic community, Accelerate provides an opportunity to bring about faster change by beginning or continuing the development of action plans and policies that support mental health on teams and throughout the organization. Determining how to best serve mental health needs cannot be based on a one-size-fits-all model across all organizations. This workshop helps identify unique risk and protective factors present within your organization and/or team that provide pathways to and barriers from members of your community being able to experience thriving mental health. You will then be able to use this information to take steps to align mental health policies with a validated model for mentally healthy sport environments.
