Lisa K. Desai, Psy.D. Director, Behavioral Health Consulting at Mindwise Innovations discusses mental health trends and statistics during the COVID-19 pandemic and provides some self-care best practices.

3:43 - Mental health trends

7:40 - Self-care practices for student-athletes

16:42 - Navigating social and racial climate in news

Previewing the Spread Respect Forum with America East Assistant Director, Operations & Championships Marcus Bishop.

Registration is available to all AE student-athletes, coaches, administrators and other campus groups - https://americaeast.com/sports/2020/9/30/Leadership_0930205321.aspx?

:00 - Forum details

5:18 - What to expect

19:16 - #SpreadRespect Conversations and other race topics

America East Assistant Director, Operations & Championships Marcus Bishop talks about his experience with racial profiling that he wrote about for AE Voices.

Read Marcus's story - https://americaeast.com/news/2020/6/19/AE%20Voices-Bishop.aspx

Two authors of AE Voices stories, Justin Tkachuk and Mikayla Krinetz talk about their history with mental health and what has helped them as student-athletes and beyond.

Mikayla's story - https://americaeast.com/news/2018/12/11/leadership-ae-voices-my-struggle-with-anxiety.aspx?path=Leadership

Justin's story - https://americaeast.com/news/2020/5/20/aevoices-tkachuk.aspx

#AEBetterTogether Chats - Kailyn Myshrall & Trey Moses by America East Conference

The America East College Tour is will give prospective college students a unique opportunity to learn more about all 10 America East institutions at once on Thursday, October 8 from 4-6 p.m. Executive Director of the America East Academic Consortium Marsha Florio and Associate Director – Strategic Recruitment and Diversity Initiatives at UVM Chris Perlongo forecast the second virtual admissions event of its kind and third event overall.

Register for free - https://theaeac.org/ae-college-tour/

:00 - Intro/headlines

3:28 - What to expect from the America East College Tour

16:48 - Academic Consortium rapport

22:03 - Upcoming events

Steven Adelson (Coordinator of Center for Civic Justice at Stony Brook University) discusses the America East Votes Challenge and importance of voter education for student-athletes.

:26 - America East headlines

4:05 - AE Votes Challenge background

16:16 - Assisting student-athletes in voting process

22:36 - Presidential Debate watch party

Voter Resources - https://americaeast.com/sports/2020/9/25/voter%20resources.aspx

ballotready.org

Take the Pledge - https://allintovote.org/take-the-pledge/

Ivy Watts empowers others to know that they are not alone and learn the beauty of self-love. The former student-athlete shares some best practices for self-care and common themes that have appeared in her blog (http://beautifullysimplyyou.com/blog).

1:19 - Watts's mental health struggles as a student-athlete

8:39 - Words of advice for student-athletes, coaches and administrators

14:37 - Unique perspective from a person of color

17:16 - Best practices during COVID-19 pandemic

Ivy Watts (https://www.ivywattsspeaks.com/) provides some tips and tricks for maintaining mental health during the pandemic. Also listen for some perspectives from AE student-athletes.

Ron Smith is the Director of the Karsh STEM Scholars Program at Howard University - aimed at addressing underrepresentation of African-Americans in the field. Smith played lacrosse at UMBC and recently cultivated conversation with the current team about racism.

4:00 - Ties between Howard University and UMBC

10:27 - Speaking with UMBC MLAX

30:00 - Educating future generations