The Atlantic 10 Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) continued its first-ever Mental Health Campaign Wednesday. Designed to raising awareness and support of individuals suffering from mental health difficulties, the effort includes a week-long social media drive as well as on-campus programming and events.
The SAAC on each A-10 campus have agreed participate in a day of action, which will be captured on video and released at a later date to highlight the league’s efforts towards mental health. This day of action is determined by each individual campus and can include events such as:
- Bringing in a guest speaker
- Spending 10 minutes at practice meditating
- Setting up support groups to talk
- Talking about mental health issues as individual teams with coaches
Student-athletes from around the Atlantic 10 are participating in this week’s social media campaign using their own personal social accounts and the campus SAAC accounts to promote messaging around daily themes related to mental health and well being. Remaining daily themes include:
- Wednesday, Nov. 28 “Break the Stigma”
Bring down the stigma surrounding mental health issues
- Thursday, Nov. 29 “Let’s Talk”
Offer to reach out to talk with or to others
- Friday, Nov. 30 “Take the pledge…"
Make the commitment to the pledge
Below are select social media posts from A-10 student-athletes and SAAC on Wednesday's "Break the Stigma" theme: