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Onrise and Learfield partner to bring comprehensive mental health care to college athletics

Why Onrise Is Different

Apps and single practitioners can't deliver what your athletes actually need. Only Onrise brings the full team.

107
Support Team Members — All in One Platform
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Retired
Athlete Peers
🧠
Licensed
Therapists
⚕️
Board-Certified
Psychiatrists

How We Stack Up

Many solutions exist, but few combine the full team needed for real change.

Mental Health Apps

What It Has:

  • Convenient
  • Always accessible

What It Lacks:

  • No real peer connection
  • No clinical oversight
  • No crisis support
  • Algorithm, not people

Single Practitioners

What It Has:

  • One trusted therapist
  • Clinical expertise

What It Lacks:

  • No peer support
  • Limited availability
  • No crisis backup
  • Hard to find right fit

Onrise

What It Has:

  • Retired athlete peers
  • Licensed therapists
  • Board-certified psychiatrists
  • 24/7 crisis care
  • One integrated platform

The bottom line: Only Onrise brings a 107-person team — peers, therapists, and psychiatrists — together in one platform, built for the communities that need it most.

Why the Status Quo Is Failing

The System Isn't Broken Because of Effort.
It's Broken Because of Design.

Most organizations already have something in place. The problem isn't access. It's that athletes aren't using it — and the consequences are accumulating quietly.

01

The System Is Not Working

  • High dropout rates after initial visits
  • Athletes don't engage with traditional models
  • Access ≠ utilization
02

The Risk Has Shifted to Organizations

  • Mental health is now part of athlete care expectations
  • Coaches and staff are absorbing unmet needs
  • Crises create reputational, legal, and human consequences
03

Internal Models Are Not Scalable

  • Limited staffing and hours
  • Limited trust — especially for internal services
  • Inconsistent utilization
04

Athletes Need a Different Model

  • Immediate access — not weeks
  • Flexible, real-world scheduling
  • Human connection: peer + clinical
  • Privacy outside the organization

What Happens If You Don't Act

  • Continued low utilization of care
  • Increased coach and staff burden
  • Higher likelihood of crisis moments
  • Athlete dissatisfaction and disengagement
  • Quiet risk accumulation

What Happens If You Do

  • Higher engagement in care
  • Earlier intervention
  • Better athlete stability and performance
  • Reduced burden on internal staff
  • A system that actually works when it's needed

The Simple Reframe

This is not about adding resources.

This is about having a system that works.

IN THE NEWS

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