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By Lane Johnson
Philadelphia Eagles
I’ve made no secret of the fact that in my personal and professional lives, teamwork is everything to me. It’s what helps win games on the field, and what helps keep me strong mentally outside of sports. That’s why, as we head to Tampa Bay this weekend to play the Bucs, I was excited to learn about a mental health initiative there called Tampa Bay Thrives. The whole idea behind TBT is teamwork; literally, the back of their volunteer t-shirts say: TOGETHER FOR A BETTER TOMORROW.
TBT is a nonprofit that started in 2019. The gist of it, as Carrie Zeisse, President and CEO of TBT explained it to my reporter friends at The Citizen, is that all the “stakeholders” — jargon that just means people who are affected — around Tampa’s mental health came together to figure out how to solve the problems they were facing: CEOs of all the Tampa area hospitals, corporate leaders, payors (health insurers), local government from the county and state level, national mental health leaders, school district leadership, public safety, community providers, professional sports, and university leaders.
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