The WNBA Is Finally Catching Up on Mental Health


The WNBA Is Finally Catching Up on Mental Health


.....Since 2019, the league has been actively administering more resources with help of Gunter and Stewart. In addition to the community mental health check-ins that were instituted during the Wubble and now have continued through this season, Engelbert and the WNBA Mind Health group, which was formed in 2018, have put together a mental health program that will provide resources such as a mental health playbook, which was administered to some of the players at the WNBA All-Star Game. Post-Wubble, both the league and the WNBPA have begun to include former players. WNBA alumni have been invited to and participate during the checks-ins and will receive a copy of the playbook. At some point the league hopes to launch a Mind Health ambassadors program featuring players and alumni......   ...more

Bethany`s Notes: Glad to see the WNBA stepping up their game in mental health. They are finding ways to eventually create peer-to-peer counseling.

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