SAMHI Changing Athletes Lives Through Their Campus Team Program

....The Student-Athlete Mental Health Initiative is a Canadian non-profit organization that was created by Sam DeLenardo and Krista Van Slingerland in 2014. The organization was formed to increase awareness around student-athletes mental health.

“I have a masters in health communication from the University of Ottawa,” says DeLenardo. “At the same time I was playing for the women’s hockey team.”

“Mental health was starting to become a little more visible in the general public. At the same time my brother developed a pretty severe mental illness.”

“I did not recognize what was going on. I knew something was wrong, but I had no idea that it might be something related to a mental illness.”

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Bethany`s Notes: Another great article on mental health from the country to the north of us. They have over 15 institutions on board know who have gone through some sort of mental health training. Will we get the same opportunity?