SafeSport:
SafeSport Training Overview
SafeSport Online Training Course Overview
- Mandatory Reporting: Understanding Your Responsibilities
- Barriers to reporting
- Legal requirements
- Suspicion of abuse
- Reporting process
2. Sexual Misconduct Awareness Education
- Creating a safe environment
- Relationship dynamics
- Coach-athlete relationship
- Power dynamics and imbalance
- Understanding the differences between laws and policies
- Criminal laws
- U.S. Center for SafeSport policies
- Organizational policies
- What is sexual misconduct?
- Definition
- Types of sexual misconduct
- Understanding consent
- Definition of consent
- Age of consent
- Capacity to consent
- Consent and power imbalances
- Child sexual abuse
- Legal definitions
- SafeSport policy definitions
- Grooming
- The victim’s perspective
- How victims respond
- Why they don’t report
- Signs and symptoms of abuse
- Prevention and response
- Managing high risk situations (travel, social media and electronic communications, etc.)
- Do’s and don’ts
3. Emotional and Physical Misconduct
- Bullying
- Definition of bullying
- Cyberbullying
- Effects of bullying
- Prevention of bullying
- Hazing
- Definition of hazing
- Preventing hazing
- Harassment
- Definition
- Creating a safe environment for all athletes
- Emotional Misconduct
- Definition
- Types of emotional misconduct
- Effects of emotional misconduct
- Physical Misconduct
- Definition
- Types of physical misconduct
Download the core course overview.