Key result
Black male coaches represent an understudied cultural asset that can be leveraged to promote community wellness, health, and academic success for Black K-12 students.
Why the study?
Black male coaches represent an understudied cultural asset that may help accelerate the closure of the opportunity gap by promoting wellness, health, and academic success for Black youth.
Black male coaches can serve as a cultural asset to promote wellness, health, and academic success for Black youth.
Warrants consideration in community wellness programs; leaves open the need for prospective trials to confirm health impacts.
While there are low percentages of Black males as educators, psychologists, pediatricians, and psychiatrists, Black students are more likely to have a Black male athletic coach. Previous research on the role of Black male coaches has demonstrated that there are several positive outcomes (i.e., academics, social skills, and reducing misbehaviors to deter criminalization) when the racial identity of Black students is matched with a Black coach. Black male coaches are an understudied cultural asset to the Black community. Therefore, this article explores how Black male coaches can be used to accelerate the closure of the opportunity gap by promoting community wellness, health, and academic success for Black youth. The recommendations for policymakers, educators, and school mental health professionals were written in collaboration with a Black male teacher-coach who works in a predominately Black high school setting.
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Woods et al. (2023) conducted a review in Black K-12 students. Black male coaches was evaluated. Black male coaches represent an understudied cultural asset that can be leveraged to promote community wellness, health, and academic success for Black K-12 students.
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