teens
Helping teen athletes navigate pressure and performance expectations while building resilience, strengthening relationships, and finding balance across sport, school, and everyday life.
Initiative collaborator
Generation Next Project
Change Your Course uses mental performance, one of the fastest-growing areas in sports, to introduce athletes aged 12-18 to skills that extend beyond the golf course. Through golf, participants practice confidence, visualization, resilience, breathing, and pressure management in moments involving mistakes, uncertainty, decision-making, and adversity. By connecting how athletes respond to a difficult shot with how young people approach a bad grade, social pressure, or setback, Change Your Course makes these tools relevant to everyday life and helps participants become more confident, resilient, intentional, and prepared for what comes next.
Initiative collaborators
Momentous Institute
Momentous Institute is a leading mental health organization advancing the people, practices, and systems that strengthen mental health for children, families, and communities. Through direct clinical care, professional training, school-based programs, and research designed to scale, it turns innovative ideas into proven resources, helping make mental health an essential part of everyday life, both within its own programs and far beyond them. Our work is being implemented around the world.
INITIATIVE COLLABORATOR
Mindflow
Mindflow provides mental health and sport psychology services through a team of nearly 50 licensed psychologists, each with a background in sports.
INITIATIVE COLLABORATOR
NAMI Texas
NAMI Texas offers free, peer-led support, education, and advocacy for families, caregivers, and educators supporting teens ages 13-18 as they navigate emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges. While NAMI Texas does not provide direct clinical treatment, its resources complement the care and support teens receive.
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Thinkbettergolf
Through individual and group sport psychology services, teen junior golfers develop a mental skills toolbox designed to help them think, feel, and play better. Services are available virtually, in person throughout the Baltimore-Washington region, and on-site at events. Drawing on more than 15 years of research, teaching, and coaching, along with experience competing in Division 1 and national-level mid-amateur golf, this approach supports athletes in strengthening their well-being, confidence, and performance.
INITIATIVE COLLABORATOR
The Defensive Line
The Defensive Line supports teens through culturally responsive, evidence-informed mental health and suicide prevention education that helps young people recognize warning signs, reduce stigma, and seek help early. Through school-based programs, interactive workshops, youth leadership opportunities, and its D-LINES initiative, the organization creates safe spaces for teens to explore emotional well-being, resilience, identity, belonging, and stress management. Training for educators, coaches, parents, and caregivers further strengthens the support network around teens, helping building communities where young people feel seen, connected, and supported.
INITIATIVE COLLABORATOR
The Hidden Opponent
The Hidden Opponent (THO) develops mental health leadership among student-athletes through education, advocacy, and support, advancing a sports culture where mental health is central to the athletic experience and seeking help is viewed as an act of leadership. High school students are eligible to apply for its Campus Captions program, a nine-month experience offered during the academic year. Through expert-led education, mentor-guided advocacy activities, and a supportive community, Campus Captains develop the skills to support their peers and become agents of change in their communities.
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The Mulligan Foundation
The Mulligan Foundation provides proactive, golf-specific mental health and identity-development programming that helps teen athletes manage pressure and build a strong sense of self beyond their performance. Through interactive workshops, conversations with professional golfers and mental health experts, and ongoing digital resources, participants develop skills in emotional regulation, confidence, resilience, healthy coping, and help-seeking. The foundation also equips parents and coaches to recognize warning signs, communicate effectively, and create healthier competitive environments, reinforcing that an athlete’s value is never determined by a scorecard.
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Valiant Sports Society
Valiant Sports Society supports athletes ages 13-18 by helping parents and caregivers navigate the complex pressures surrounding teen sports. Through free educational content, expert conversations, practical resources, and advocacy, Valiant equips adults to support athletes’ emotional and physical well-being while allowing tenns greater ownership, stress, identity, burnout, communication, injury, recruiting, and other challenges, helping parents understand when to encourage, when to listen, and when to step back while protecting the person behimd the athlete.