Parent

Longtime sports sociologist Jay Coakley, PhD is helping break down the tangible ways that caregivers and coaches can support athletes with mental wellness.

Dr. Deborah Gilboa explains why resilience matters so much for young athletes and how to tailor your approach by developmental stage.

How to offer your athlete a different perspective on an experience, one that will allow them to consider their own outlook and reframe it, building resilience.

TrueSport Expert Deborah Gilboa, MD, explains how to improve your own resilience and practice resilience as a team.

Tips on how to approach holidays and vacations mindfully so that athletes can feel comfortable getting the nutrients they need and the flavors they want.

How are communities, schools, trainers, parents, coaches, and even the athletes themselves best able to support mental wellness within youth sport?

Explore kindness as a skill, being a role model for your children, social-emotional skills, creating a safe place to share, what empathy is, and why it is important, building empathy at home, resources for kindness and empathy, and intentional inclusion.

The Choose Kindness Project has gathered top strategies and tools from organizations leading the way in the field of bullying prevention, intentional inclusion, and mental wellness.

TrueSport Expert Nadia Kyba, MSW, is sharing some simple do’s and don’ts for creating a social media policy with your athletes that will improve team culture.

This resource will explore identifying bullying, warning signs of bullying, cyberbullying, who is involved with bullying, what to do if your child is bullied, risk factors for bullying, and different types of bullying.