Number of Participants: 45
Hours Donated: 5
Value of Time Served: $1,901
Event Type: Health & Safety
Sport: Schools
School: Ithaca Senior High School
Date: October 7, 2023
Location:
Ithaca High School
North Cayuga Street, Ithaca
NY
About:
Huddle Together for Mental Health was created by Cornell Head Football Coach and NAMI –Finger Lakes Board Member David Archer to use the platform of sports to bring education and awareness around mental health education and resources. The concept brings together partners from Cornell, Ithaca City Schools, and NAMI-FL, during the Hilinski Hope Foundation’s Student Athlete Mental Health Awareness week to offer a week’s worth of programming, mental health awareness games, and overall advocacy for mental health. The hope is to grow this program in all ways in future years.
October 2-7 we joined Cornell in Huddle Together efforts around Mental Illness. We kicked off the week with a presentation from Coach Archer on September 27, and then had MAMI come and speak to scholars on October 2. We invited our entire scholar body, and focused specifically on our scholar-athletes All of our home contests this week, we asked our community to wear green in support of Mental Illness and awareness. Dave Archer started this programming at Cornell and extended an invitation to us this year-we are grateful.