{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Kids on the Pitch (Scholastic and Youth Soccer in Western PA)","title":"Tackling Mental Health Awareness plus challenges and rewards of High School soccer with Libby Mascaro","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2287,"description":"We are excited to bring Libby Mascaro back to the Kids on the Pitch Podcast!\nIf you recall, in her first appearance Mascaro shared her passion as a coach by 'leading with love' in crusade to promote Mental Health Awareness with young student athletes.\nNow, Libby joins the Podcast to address some of the questions we recently posed to High School boys and girls coaches, especially what some of the biggest challenges and rewards of coaching young student athletes in their most formative years.Mascaro has coached for Beadling SC and was a part of the Mt. Lebanon ‘Dream Team’ of the 1990s soccer dynasty and played collegiately at Penn State University.\nLibby has two daughters who attend and play soccer at Upper St. Clair HS (Mary and Abby) each who are committed to attend Kent St and Delaware, respectively.Addressing ongoing challenges for youth coaches, parents, soccer organizations and schools in mentoring, guiding and supporting young athletes and students.Resources to provide help and assistanceNAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness (website: https://www.nami.org/Home)AFSP: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (website: https://afsp.org/) More about Libby Mascaro\n\nFor the last 10 years Libby has worked closely with two organizations, as she co-founded the Upper St. Clair Wellness Committee and the No Place for Hate initiative, a national program supporting schools in their commitment to celebrating diversity, promoting respect for differences, and challenging bias and bullying at all levels.  USC’s Wellness Committee’s mission is to make sure the students (and staff) in USC are healthy, both physically and mentally. I have held several fundraisers over these years raising almost $300,000 for local mental health resources. Plus she advocates strongly for mental health awareness through affiliations with organizations including the National Alliance on Mental Illness and American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.\nThrough Libby’s coaching experiences,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/VbpfZqdQnSU1dbNXJZSdysZ3lGtn50PRA2iqaC8CPTI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMzMTI5LzE2NjAy/MjgxMDctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}