Brett Kramer

Ms Brett Kramer is the Director of the Kicking the Stigma program run by the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts. This organization was founded in 2020 to combat mental health stigma and operates on four main pillars. Awareness, community, purposeful,and systemic change. They believe that these four pillars can lead to reduced stigma and better care and awareness for mental health. The Colts use their brand to connect with youth, when they see football stars speak about mental health it creates normalcy and understanding that everyone deals with mental health struggles. She told me how they support local programs to expand and spread the message to youth through sports, schools, and other means. She also talked about how she’d like to see mental health be treated the same as physical health in order to achieve more care and less stigma.