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Cavs’ Love donates $500,000 to UCLA mental health efforts

The Daily Record - 6/30/2020

Cavaliers’ five-time All-Star forward Kevin Love has committed $500,000 through his foundation to establish a centennial chair in the UCLA psychology department.

The gift from the Kevin Love Fund will be boosted by a UCLA Centennial Term Chair Match in the same amount. In March, 2018, Love revealed he had experienced a panic attack during a game, had battled mental health issues for several years and was undergoing treatment.

The $1 million will support teaching and research to diagnose, prevent, treat and destigmatize anxiety and depression. Such work hopes to develop more personalized treatments.

“I’m concerned about the level of anxiety that people are feeling. Recent events, including the novel coronavirus outbreak, have put our society under enormous stress,” Love said in a statement on a UCLA web site. “I am happy to be able to help UCLA, my alma mater, work toward solving some of society’s biggest underlying issues. I hope one day we are able to erase the stigma around anxiety and depression, and we can only do that by improving diagnosis and treatment, fostering public conversations about mental health and encouraging people to seek help when they need it.”

The UCLA psychology department boasts 3,700 undergraduate students and 180 graduate students and has also drawn recognition for studies in human relationships and social networks, the adolescent brain and substance abuse and addiction.

“Kevin lives his values of service and investment in his communities. His gift will be of incalculable benefit to society for many decades to come,” Victoria Sork, dean of life sciences in the UCLA College, said in a statement on the web site.

CREDIT: BY MARLA RIDENOUR AKRON BEACON JOURNAL