Awesome! You can either join as an individual and pay the yearly fee ($35/year), or you can reach out to your coach or Athletic Director and inquire about having them purchase subscriptions for you and your fellow student-athletes! If you want to join as an individual and pay the $35 yearly fee, process your payment here, and complete this sign up form, and the AMM team will approve your access.

Of course! The content is geared towards the athletic experience, but you can use any of the resources or tools for your own mental health as well! You can join as an individual and pay the yearly fee ($35/year). Process your payment here, and complete this sign up form, and the AMM team will approve your access.

You can find the pricing structure for various subscription options for your student-athletes here. Please reach out to info@athletemindsmatter.com to get started and to process payment. A contract will also need to be signed to process your subscription. Payment will be made every year to maintain access for student-athletes already enrolled. You can increase to the next tier pricing structure at any time.

Please feel free to reach out to info@athletemindsmatter.com with any questions that you might have!

If you go to the top right corner of your screen when you are logged in, you should see a person icon (or your photo if you have uploaded one). Click the icon and you will be brought to your profile. From there, click "My Journals" and then you will be able to see all of your past journals, and you can even use the category button to help you find certain journals easier!

As indicated in the Privacy Policy and Consent for Journal Use, all entered information by a student-athlete onto their profile, will be private to them. In the case that an entry contains any of our predefined "buzz words" that indicate potential risk of harm to self or others, the Athlete Minds Matter team will be notified and appropriate follow up will be taken, including reaching out to a local Emergency Services team to do a risk assessment. Athlete Minds Matter will not be following up with a coach or administrator, unless the student-athlete has asked us to, to protect the privacy of the student-athlete.

We won't be sending you any spam mail or phone calls, we promise! But, in order to keep you safe, we need to know your current location, and have a phone number on file, in case you have moved. In the Privacy Policy and Consent For Journal Use, you will read that if any information that you enter on the site contains any predefined "buzz words" that indicates risk of you harming yourself or someone else, we will need to contact the Emergency Services team in your town to contact you and do a risk assessment.

3 months before your subscription is about to expire, you will receive an email asking if you would like to renew your subscription. You will then be asked to sign a new contract and agree to the terms for an additional year. Payment will be processed either via PayPal or check.

Hang tight! We need to approve every member before they have access to the site. You will receive a Welcome Email once you have been approved. Make sure you used your school email so we can appropriately confirm you! Make sure you have read and agreed to the Consent for Journal use, Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions. If it has been over 24 hours and you have not been approved, please contact info@athletemindsmatter.com. It may be an issue of you not entering the correct email.

Congratulations! You are taking a huge step in helping your student-athletes with their mental wellness! Go you! If you have bought subscriptions, this means you have already signed all relevant contracts. The Athlete Minds Matter team will give you all the information needed, including a flyer you can circulate. Please be on the lookout for communication from our Campus Champion Coordinator who will further coordinate implementing AMM at your school! FYI: Student-athletes must use their school email, otherwise, we will not be able to approve their account, and they will not have access. Students will also need to agree to a privacy policy prior to having access to Athlete Minds Matter.

At the end of the school year, you can send info@athletemindsmatter.com a list of your active student-athletes. We will reach out to those students with accounts on AMM to see if they would like to pay the yearly subscription to stay active, and if not, they will be inactivated.

Although Athlete Minds Matter is currently not an app, you can add Athlete Minds Matter to your home screen on your Android or iPhone for quick access to your account! Some features on your phone will appear differently than it does on a computer. We recommend using AMM on your computer for the best experience, but having AMM on your phone for on the go use is great too! Here's how! For Androids: 1. Open Firefox or other Web browser and go to athletemindsmatter.com 2. Press the Menu button (either below the screen on some devices or in the upper right of the browser), then tap on "Add Page To" 3. Tap "Shortcut" or "Home screen" 4. Your shortcut should now appear on your home screen and you can access Athlete Minds Matter, just like an app. When you press the shortcut, it will bring you to the website! For iPhones: 1. Open Safari and head to athletemindsmatter.com 2. Press the Share icon at the bottom. 3. Then tap Add to Home Screen from the menu. 4. Next, type in a name for your shortcut and then tap the Add button. Now the website icon will be displayed as a shortcut on the home screen — just like an app. When you tap the shortcut it will open to that page in Safari.

-Along with listening, validating that person’s experience is so vital. Ever had someone tell you to suck it up? Or that your feelings weren't important? How terrible does that feel? Avoid doing that to domsone else by providing validation, even when you don't understand their experience. -Providing validation and reassurance can look like statements like, “What you are going through sounds really tough”, or “It sounds like you are having a really hard time”, or “I am sorry that you are going through that, and I hope you know it is okay to feel how you feel and that I am here for you.”

-You are doing an awesome job listening to your friend and validating their experience! Go you! Keep the conversation going by asking some open-ended questions. -Good questions to ask include, “Can you tell me more about that?”, “What can we do right now that will help you?”, “What have you done in the past when you felt this way?”, “What do you need in this moment?”. -These questions provide a space for someone to open up more and know that you care enough to give them the space to do so!

-Here is a great space to be relatable! Have a self-care activity that works well for you? Suggest it to your friend and let them know that you also sometimes struggle, and that this activity really helps you! Being relatable not only breaks down barriers within mental health conversations, it also helps people to feel less alone! -Suggest self-care activities but also empower your friend to discover their own! What works for you might not work for someone else. Let that person know that they have the power to create healthy self-care routines. -Bonus tip – suggest self-care activities to do together! Going for a walk together is a great start to be in nature and to help find calm and peace within the situation! When you can suggest a self-care activity to do together, it can help your friend to feel supported and not judged in any way for feeling how they feel.

-You never know what someone is going through. So many times we hide behind a mask, showing the world that we are okay when we are struggling internally. Make sure to be kind to those who are showing warning signs of mental health problems, as well as those who look like they have it all together. Those who look like they have it all together, might be our friends who are struggling the most. -Being kind through complimenting someone or providing them with a smile or a hug, can make a huge difference in changing that person’s day, and even their life.

-The tough thing about mental health is that we will never truly have all of the answers. But one of the biggest things you can do for a friend, especially if you don’t really understand their situation, is to listen. -When you listen, you give the person the space to feel comfortable to open up to you. It’s important to listen without judgement, even if you don't understand their struggle. If it matters to them, it matters. -Our feelings can feel so heavy until we unpack them. By listening, we allow someone to feel comfortable to unpack their feelings again in the future, which overall can help to save someone’s life. -You have the power to change and save lives, simply by listening.

-Learning how to practice self-care is critical for our mental health journeys. However, it can be beneficial and might be needed to bring in a professional, who can further help your friend work through what they are going through. -At this point, it is really important to be relatable, especially if you have seen a therapist in the past or see one currently. Again, doing so breaks down barriers and lets that person know that it is more than okay to get help. -Provide support to your friend by letting them know you will walk with them to the counseling center, or sit with them during that initial phone call. Your support can make a world of a difference. -If your friend is resistant to professional help, that’s okay. Try suggesting some other resources in your community, and encourage them to find resources that work for them! Check out How to Find a Therapist to walk through the process with your friend!

-And truly mean it to spark a discussion! -By asking “how are you?”, you can assess the situation and get a better understanding of what your friend is going through. -Get specific! Sometimes people will not be receptive to “How Are You?”, because they know how often we throw that word around. If you know someone has been struggling with a test or a family issue, you can ask them specifically, “How was that test?” or “How have you been since that situation happened with your family?” Providing specifics creates space for meaningful discussion.

NEED TO EDIT -TOO LONG If you notice that a friend has been talking about death or dying, or they have seem very withdrawn and have been feeling hopeless, it’s important to ask questions such as “Are you feeling suicidal”, or “Are you thinking about taking your own life?”. The question can seem uncomfortable, but it can save a life. Asking that question has often been perceived as a negative thing to do, that will only provide someone with the thought of taking their own life. However, by asking those questions, you provide that person with the space to talk to someone about their pain, something they may never have felt comfortable doing so before. Please note that hurting oneself, and taking their own life, are two separate issues, and so asking a clear question about if someone wants to take their own life, provides clarification and allows you to know what to do next. If your friend is thinking of taking their own life, it is important to assess the situation. Asking them if they have a plan of how they will take their own life and when they will do it, will allow you to understand the urgency of the situation. If someone has an immediate plan, it is important to get help right away (911, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Crisis Team on campus, or any trained adult to help you). It is also important that you or someone else stays with that person until help comes and provide all of the support in the above steps (listening, validating, not making them feel wrong or selfish for having these thoughts). Although your friend might be angry with you in that moment for calling for help, they will most likely be grateful that you did, because you helped save their life. If there is not an immediate risk, encourage the person to get professional help and direct them to the appropriate resources on campus or in your community. Let an adult know about the situation and continually check in and follow up with your friend. Following up reminds your friend that they are not alone and continually reminds them that their mental health matters. Handling a situation where a person is thinking about taking their own life can be emotionally difficult. Make sure that you take time for yourself and implement mental wellness for yourself after this situation and seek help to work through the situation if needed.

-We all have gone through something. We all have mental health, even though we might not all have a mental health problem. When you can open up about what you have gone through and what you did to get through it, it can help someone else who is also struggling with the same thing but felt so alone. ADD VIDEO HERE OF MY FRIEND BEING RELATABLE AND THE DIFFERENCE IT MADE

-Implement mental wellness into everything you do. If you spend the first 15 minutes of practice stretching, try implementing positive affirmations, meditation or another mental wellness technique into that time! This creates a culture on your team that it is okay to talk about mental health! -If you and a friend always spend time together on Thursdays for dinner at your favorite restaurant, take some time during your already scheduled time to practice mental wellness together. Ideas could be sharing self-care routines, providing resources, practicing affirmations or meditating together, or even just encouraging each other to take a break. -Have creative check ins! Check in with your friends and teammates by asking the high and low of their day, or how they are doing on a scale of 1-100, asking what their color is today (yellow, red or green), or some other fun check in.

Sometimes people may not yet be ready to open up and tell us how they are feeling, but if you constantly remind them that you are there for them and will be there to listen and support them once they are ready to open up, you create a culture of support and mental wellness.