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Center for Athletes’ Rights and Equity

Center for Athletes’ Rights and Equity

Eddie Comeaux

Partner With Us


Partner With Us

CARE offers a variety of  comprehensive services, including high-quality research opportunities for students, postdoc fellows, research fellows, and faculty, education initiatives and events, customized educational consulting services for individuals and organizations, and Community Belongingness surveys for participating higher education institutions and professional sport organizations.

Our signature learning component, Leadership for Equity and Athlete Development (LEAD) Collaborative, a vibrant community of education and sport leaders that collaborate with the purpose to rigorously and holistically prepare athletes for successful professional careers beyond athletics. We have developed an extensive curriculum of evidence-based materials to teach valuable skills and equity strategies, and to introduce participants to a world of opportunities.

Learn more about the benefits of becoming a LEAD Collaborative partner below, or you can contact us for more information about individual consultation services.

 

LEAD Collaborative Partner Benefits 

 

Learning Sessions


LEAD Collaborative provides in-person and virtual high-quality learning sessions for leaders—athletes, professionals, educators, executives, and the like—at an individual institution or organization. Each learning session provides leaders with firsthand experience and insider connections to equity strategies and resources. The importance of creating sites of humanness, caring, and belongingness are recurring themes throughout these sessions. Our team of equity-focused facilitators use evidence-based content and have extensive expertise delivering convenient, high-quality learning opportunities.

Special emphasis will be placed on practical lessons that leaders can learn and apply from timely case studies of real-world situations; and learning equity and inclusion strategies in increasingly diverse contexts. Participating groups can choose from the list of topics below, or sessions can be tailored to meet specific needs. Select topics that address athletes across all levels of competition:

Select Topics of Learning Sessions

  • Amateur and High School Sports
    • Strategies for Improving College Readiness 
    • Advancing the Success of Boys and Girls of Color 
    • Knowing Your Rights: NCAA Rules and Policies 
    • The Growing Invisible Competition: Mental Health Care for Athletes 
    • Sports-Related Concussions in Youth Sports
    • Sexual Harassment, Sexual Violence Prevention and Healthy Relationships
    • Striking a Healthy Balance Between Academic and Athletic Identities  
    • Time Management/Organization and Goal Setting 
    • Classroom Strategies to Enhance Learning 
    • Culture, Diversity, & Implicit Bias: Avoiding Discrimination and a Hostile School Environment 
  • College Athletes
    • How to Leave College in Good Academic Standing
    • How to Return to College to Complete a Degree
    • Onboarding: How to Prepare for the 4-Year Transfer 
    • The Role of Stereotypes, Racial Microaggressions, and Belongingness in Student Well-Being  
    • Stress and Adjustment to College Life
    • Food and Housing Insecurities: Threats to Student Overall Well-Being
    • The Growing Invisible Competition: Mental Health Care for Athletes 
    • Improving Equity in Athletic Personnel Hiring
    • How to Prepare for Life after Competitive Sports
    • The Educational Benefits of Campus Engagement Activities 
    • How to Choose a Sports Agent 
    • Safety First: Concussions and Contact Sports
    • Sexual Harassment, Sexual Violence Prevention and Healthy Relationships
    • Time Management/Organization and Goal Setting 
    • Internships: Gearing Up for Career Success 
    • Culture, Diversity, & Implicit Bias: Avoiding Discrimination and a Hostile School Environment 
    • Drugs, Alcohol, and Your Health 
    • Budgeting While in College 
    • Financial Aid: Navigating the Details 
    • The Right to Protection: Athletes & Activism
  • Professional Athletes
    • How to Prepare for Life after Competitive Sports
    • Sexual Harassment, Sexual Violence Prevention and Healthy Relationships
    • The Growing Invisible Competition: Mental Health Care for Athletes 
    • Financial Literacy 
    • How to Return to College to Complete a Degree
    • Internships: Gearing Up for 2nd Career Success 
    • From Professional Athletes to Entrepreneurship
    • Improving Equity in Athletic Personnel Hiring

Initiatives and Events

CARE coordinates a number of initiatives and events throughout the year, both on campus and in the community. Example initiatives and events include NCAA and member institution rules and policies, mentoring programs, health wellness and fitness, conferencing and networking, community outreach and engagement, public lectures, and reading groups.
 

Community Belongingness Survey for Athletic Departments

The survey captures student athlete views regarding the athletic department and team climate, campus practices as experienced with faculty, staff and peers. The diverse student athlete population is at the center o the survey, and the tool is based on empirical studies of diverse student athlete bodies and the complexity of issues that range from student athlete mobility to intergroup relations. Key sections of the survey examine:

  • Academic Experiences
  • Campus Experiences (open-ended questions)
  • Athletic Department and Team Climate
  • Experiences with Discrimination and Harassment
  • Mental Health
  • Belongingness
  • COVID-19 Pandemic

Community Belongingness Survey for Professional Sport Organizations

The survey captures both personal experiences and perceptions of the professional sport organizational climate from the perspective of personnel for a more complete understanding of the climate and culture for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belongingness. Key sections of the survey examine:

  • Personnel Experiences
  • Organizational Climate & Culture
  • Experiences with Discrimination and Harassment
  • Mental Health
  • Belongingness
  • COVID-19 Pandemic

COST

  • The cost for learning sessions starts at $2,500/ per session for 2021-2022. Contact us for customized learning sessions to match your interests and needs.
  • The cost for Community Belongingness survey registration/administration starts at $5,000 for 2021-2022. Please contact us for more information about the participation of your institution or organization in the Community Belongingness survey and price plan options.