This study explores African American parents’ experiences with using technology to engage their children in meaningful activities (e.g., e-learning) during COVID-19 and its impact on family health. Eleven African American families were recruited through a local health department program from a rural Midwestern community to participate in semi-structured interviews. Majority of participants reported stresses from feelings of “sink or swim” in a digital world, without supports from schools to effectively provide for their children’s technology needs. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of family-school collaborative engagement and empowerment. Digital technology needs to become part of our school education system so that technology use among African Americans is elevated and families protected against future outbreaks. Further research with a more diverse African American sample is needed.

The School-Based Health Centre (SBHC) model of healthcare delivery in community health is designed to address the unique needs of adolescents. Through a collaborative interprofessional approach, they aim to provide comprehensive care with the goal of reducing health disparities in underserved, at-risk adolescents. Integration of sports medicine health professionals is a novel approach to increasing available services, as well as patient utilization, while addressing multiple public health issues, including lack of athletic training services for youth athletes.

Objective: To discuss the relevance of system-level health inequities and their interplay with race in sports and athletic training, particularly during and after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Background: Health inequity is a systemic and longstanding concern with dire consequences that can have marked effects on the lives of minority patients. As a result of the unequal consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the magnitude of the outcomes from health inequity in all spheres of American health care is being brought to the fore. The discourse within athletic training practice and policy must shift to intentionally creating strategies that acknowledge and account for systemic health inequities in order to facilitate an informed, evidence-based, and safe return to sport within the new normal. Conclusions: To continue to evolve the profession and solidify athletic trainers' role in public health spaces post–COVID-19, professionals at all levels of athletic training practice and policy must intentionally create strategies that acknowledge and account for not only the social determinants of health but also the effects of racism and childhood trauma on overall health and well-being.

Background: The St Louis Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma (ReCAST) project promoted community well-being in a designated Promise Zone over a 5-year period. The primary goals of the ReCAST project are: (1) to build a foundation to promote well-being, resiliency, and community healing through service integration; (2) to improve access to trauma-informed community behavioral health resources and youth peer support; and (3) to create community change through community and youth engagement, leadership development, improved governance, and capacity building. Purpose: To examine ReCAST stakeholder perceptions of resilience and trauma in their communities using Concept Mapping (CM), a participatory mixed methodology. Approach: CM is an integrated approach that supports the structured conceptualization of ideas and applies multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis to bring together and organize the ideas of a group to capture the perspectives of multiple stakeholders. Results: 33 stakeholders participated in the ReCAST program. The resilience concept map yielded five clusters: (1) Community Relationships (positive and productive), (2) Religious Organizations/Spirituality, (3) Interaction with Diverse Communities, (4) People in power to create change, and (5) Community gatherings and organizations. The trauma cluster map identified the following clusters: (1) Substandard Education, (2) Traumatic events/community violence, (3) Racial Trauma, and (4) Physical Degradation of neighborhoods. Discussion: Based on CM results, participants identified the need for local political officials to make a coordinated effort to address issues expressed in both maps and funding of local organizations to address issues related to trauma and resilience, especially youth organizations.