🚨 National Emergency Declared — Child & Adolescent Mental Health

Train The Response · 1% Better Everyday Success Agency · Coach Omar Stinney

The SilentEmergency

Why Every Athletic Program and Recreation Department Needs Mindset Coaching Now

The American Academy of Pediatrics has declared a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health.

Your athletes are living inside this crisis right now and most programs have no system in place to address it.

This podcast episode changes that.

56%
Rise in youth
suicide rate
2014-2024
2X
Athlete suicide
rates doubled
in 20 years
91%
HS athletes
experience
sport stress
45%
Youth athletes
quit due to
burnout
🎧 Train The Response · Special Edition · Press Play Now
The Silent Emergency: Why Every Athletic Program Needs Mindset Coaching Now
Coach Omar Stinney · 1% Better Everyday Success Agency · Certified GYMR Mindset Coach
▶ Press play above · This episode is for Athletic Directors Principals and Recreation Directors
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Athletic Directors and Recreation Directors — this episode was made for you. The data is clear. The crisis is documented. Federal funding exists to address it. The only question is whether you will act before it hits your program.
What You Will Hear In This Episode
01
The National Emergency Declaration
The American Academy of Pediatrics has officially declared a national emergency. What that means for your athletes right now.
02
Morgan's Message — Honoring Morgan Rodgers
The story of a Duke University athlete whose passing in 2019 created a national movement and what it means for your program today.
03
The Data Behind The Crisis
Verified statistics from peer-reviewed research and named institutions. Every number cited. Every source confirmed.
04
The GYMR Story: The First Certified Coach In The World
How Drew Brees's strength and conditioning coach Todd Durkin reached out to Coach O to ask if he would be interested in purchasing the Certification Program to be an OFFICIAL GYMR Certified Mindset Coach.
05
The EAPS System — The Solution
The Educational Athletics Performance System, how it works what it delivers and the real athlete results already documented in New Jersey.
06
How To Fund It: The SAMHSA Grant Pathway
Federal funding exists specifically for programs like this. Step by step, how your organization can access it at no cost to your budget.
"The man who trained Drew Brees reached out to Coach O to invite him to represent this. Your athletes deserve what he built."
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The Numbers Every Decision Maker Must See
91%
of HS athletes experience sport stress
2023 Survey · Holston Academy
44%
report mental health symptoms daily
NCAA Health & Wellness Study 2024
45%
of youth athletes quit due to burnout
NYU Review 2024
🦋 In Memory Of Morgan Rodgers — Duke University Women's Lacrosse
Morgan's Message
Morgan Rodgers was a Duke University Women's Lacrosse player who lost her battle with mental health in 2019. Her family created Morgan's Message, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit now operating across 1,717 campuses in 46 states — with a mission to eliminate the stigma surrounding student athlete mental health and equalize the treatment of mental and physical health in athletics.

Morgan's Message opens the conversation. The EAPS system provides the tools. Every program needs both.
"As an athlete there is no shame in seeking physical healthcare — the same should be true for mental healthcare. In order to close the gap we must eliminate the stigma surrounding mental health together." — Morgan's Message Mission
Learn more at morgansmessage.org →
🏆 The First In The World
Hand-Selected By
Drew Brees's Coach
Todd Durkin is the world-renowned strength and conditioning coach who trained NFL legend Drew Brees throughout his Hall of Fame career. Todd, along with a select group of professionals in the sports and fitness industry, created the GYMR Mindset Coaching Certification framework in partnership with academic researchers.

When it was time to introduce GYMR to the world Todd Durkin contacted Coach Omar Stinney, told him he thought he would be the perfect candidate, and invited him to be in the room to hear everything the framework consisted of.

The moment Coach O heard it all and he said YES immediately.
Coach Omar Stinney Became The First Person In The World Officially Certified As A GYMR Mindset Coach
Not one of the first. THE first. — That is the system your athletes deserve.
Get Your Mind Right — 4 Pillars
C
Confidence
Built through preparation and routine — not outcomes
C
Clarity
Knowing what to focus on and blocking everything else
C
Consistency
Showing up every day regardless of feeling
G
Grit
Choosing your response when everything goes sideways
🏆 Real Moment · Seneca High School Athlete · New Jersey
A Math Test. A Marking Period. A System That Worked.
"My pressurized moment this week was yesterday when I had a math test and it was the last grade of the marking period. Depending on how I did I would have gotten a C or a B. I aced the test. I had straight B's in all my classes for the marking period."
Coach O asked: What did you do to ease the pressure?
"I just took a couple deep breaths, started thinking about the things I learned in class the past couple days about the test and it was actually easy when I did that."
Why This Matters For Your Program
This athlete used the Performance Triangle — Breath Focus Self-Talk, from Week 2 of the EAPS playbook. Not on the court. In a classroom. Under real academic pressure. The mental tools Coach O teaches do not stay in the gym. They transfer into every area of an athlete's life. Including grades. Including behavior. Including leadership.
Real Athlete Results
"I was weak and not confident. I realized you were by my side through every battle. I got stronger, lost weight and my confidence blew out the roof."
— MED TECH Athlete · New Jersey
"After the very first session my mindset overly changed to just go and get it done no matter what. It's all about mind control and how you talk to yourself."
— MED TECH Athlete · New Jersey
"I was struggling with my work consistency. I am able to jump higher, my body feels more in shape, and I was shown I could do what I put my mind to. He is a great coach. He really knows his stuff."
— MED TECH Athlete · New Jersey
Federal Funding Available Now
The SAMHSA Grant Pathway
SAMHSA — the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, is a federal agency under the US Department of Health and Human Services. Their Children's Mental Health Initiative provides federal grant funding specifically to improve mental health outcomes for children and youth birth through age 21. Proposed budgets range from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000 per award. There is no budget excuse.
01
Contact your state's SAMHSA block grant administrator. Every state has one. They distribute federal mental health funds to local programs.
02
Position the EAPS system as a preventive mental health intervention for youth athletes. The research in this episode supports exactly this framing.
03
Submit a program proposal showing how EAPS addresses the documented mental health needs of your student athlete population.
04
Use the EAPS assessment data — zone scores across 5 domains — as the baseline measurement that grant applications require.
05
Contact Coach O directly to discuss how to frame the EAPS system for your specific grant application. [email protected] · (609) 694-9971
The Risk-Free Entry Path
Mental Performance Scorecard
20-question assessment for your athletes. Instant zone scores. Real data. No cost. No obligation. omarstinney.com/scorecard
School Assembly Keynote
Coach O speaks directly to your athletes. You see the system in action with your specific student body.
Athletic Department Session
Coach O trains your coaching staff on the GYMR framework. Your coaches become the daily reinforcement system.
Full Day Workshop
Complete program introduction for athletes coaches and parents in one powerful day.
10-Month Complete Implementation
The full Educational Athletics Performance System across your entire athletic department. Contact Coach O for school and recreation program pricing.
YOUR ATHLETES DESERVE THIS SYSTEM

The data is documented. The emergency has been declared. The funding exists. The system is ready. The first step costs nothing and takes 5 minutes per athlete.

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[email protected] · (609) 694-9971 · www.omarstinney.com
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