Toolkits & Reports on Elite Athlete Mental Health

This toolkit is intended to equip Olympic Movement stakeholders with the knowledge and guidance to protect and promote elite athletes’ mental health and well-being.

The purpose of this position statement is to provide Canadian university and college athletics and sport medicine departments with recommendations and guidelines for supporting and promoting student athlete mental health.

This publication is the most comprehensive overview to date of college student-athlete mental health, and we hope this becomes a springboard for addressing mental health in the continuum from youth sport to intercollegiate sport and beyond. NCAA member institutions have committed to supporting student-athlete health and safety and ensuring that athletics departments are an integral part of the institutional mission for more than 100 years. But only recently have we begun to fully understand the mental health component of
being a student-athlete.

A research study led by Dr. Janelle Joseph and the Indigeneity, Diaspora, Equity, and Anti-racism in Sport (IDEAS) Research Lab to discover the OUA racial demographics, experiences and knowledge of racism, and strategies for change.