Riot Games and Take This team up in support of mental health
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Riot Games is announcing a partnership with Take This, a mental health nonprofit. Take This works towards decreasing the stigma of mental health issues in games. The organization also works towards increasing support for mental health in games and the industry.
Riot and Take This share a common vision for creating safe and inclusive environments, where all players can feel mentally and physically supported. To reach this goal the two companies are taking a two-fold approach.
The first approach is to create a robust mental health curriculum tailored to the varied needs of the gaming community. The second approach is a Black, Indigenous, and people of color produced video series. These videos are to help provide a space for them to share their experiences and receive support.
The partnership between Riot Games and Take This kicked off in May 2022. Riot provided Take This with grant funding to develop a free, world-first mental health curriculum designed to meet the needs of casual and professional streamers.
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The curriculum, developed by Doctors Kelli Dunlap and Raffael Boccamazzo, is tailored specifically to the needs and experiences of streamers. It focuses on practical, relevant advice and tools. It’s coming in digestible, easily searchable forms so streamers can get exactly what they need, when they need it.
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