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MEND Training

MEND

Powered by the YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee, MEND works to end violence against women by engaging and educating men. The YWCA has extensive experience treating the symptom, but violence against women is truly a man’s problem that desperately needs a cure. When men understand how our culture supports violence, they become a major part of the solution.

Objectives of this training include:

• Raise awareness about the prevalence of violence against women
• Uncover subtle ways our society reinforces sexist and objectifying biases
• Connect the dots between harmful jokes and actions
• Unpack the difference between healthy and unhealthy masculinity
• Empower attendees with situational examples and strategies to step up and speak out against negative cultural norms
• Challenge attendees to help create a community that respects and values women and girls

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Listed under: College, High School, Youth, Athletes, Coaches, Build Champions, Provide Resources, Educate & Train

Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policies (MAAPP) Microsite

U.S. Center for SafeSport

The U.S. Center for SafeSport launched the Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policies (MAAPP) Microsite. This Microsite organizes dozens of resources that break down safety principles specific to parents, adult athletes, coaches, and others who can prevent abuse against young athletes.

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Listed under: Youth, Athletes, Coaches, Families, Administrators, Leagues, Enforce Policy, Provide Resources

National Leadership Conference

Play Like A Champion

Every June, coaches; athletic administrators; school superintendents, principals, and teachers; pediatricians; child psychologists; and civic leaders concerned about child welfare across the United States and around the world will gather at Play Like a Champion Today’s National Sports Leadership Conference to set an inclusive, value-driven agenda for the future of youth and high school sports.

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Listed under: Youth, Coaches, Leagues, Join Communities of Practice

Nudge Program Tip Sheet

YMCA of Central Ohio

We as YMCA staff, members, community members and volunteers need to build on the work we’ve done and develop the three habits in child abuse prevention:

1. We Know: when we understand the common practices of those who harm you and the best practices to stop them.
2. We See: when we can recognize the warning signs or behaviors that signal abuse or risk for abuse.
3. We Respond: when we take action in response to behaviors we recognize as being inappropriate or questionable.

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Listed under: Youth, Athletes, Coaches, Families, Leagues, Raise Awareness, Provide Resources, Educate & Train

Nudge Program White Paper

YMCA

Abstract - Preventing child sexual abuse (CSA) continues to be an emerging field of inquiry. With limited evidence-based practices in the primary prevention of CSA, there remains a Call to Action for new approaches to protect children ("Pillars for Prevention," 2015, p. 2, "Stop it Now!," 2010, p. 4). This paper explores the introduction of libertarian paternalism (LP) theory of nudging human behaviors, with a goal to impact adults in CSA prevention behaviors by the use of visual heuristics images, starting with youth-serving organization (YSO) personnel and beyond in their communities. Although similar approaches in prevention have not yet been applied in protecting children from sexual abuse, a cautious approach to this form of prevention is worth consideration for future study as an innovative way to empower all adults to develop behaviors that prevent CSA.

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Listed under: Youth, Leagues, Measure Impact

Parent Engagement Guide

Up2Us

Up2Us Sports' best practice guide on how to foster parental involvement that is based on the successful methodologies employed by member organizations of the Up2Us coalition. Please note that “parent” is used throughout this guide as a generic term to imply the active caregiver (i.e., foster parent, grandparent) in the program participant’s life.

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Listed under: Youth, Families, Build Champions, Provide Resources, Educate & Train

Parent Orientation & Membership Program + Code of Ethics

National Alliance for Youth Sports

The NAYS Parent Orientation & Membership Program orientation video covers topics such as safety, injury prevention, modeling sportsmanship, preventing and identifying steroid abuse, plus more! The training is hosted by Chris McKendry, ESPN SportsCenter anchor and sports parent, and features great commentary by well-known and highly respected professionals who share their expertise in the area of youth sports. The NAYS Parent Orientation video is about 40 minutes and consists of 8 sections with a review question at the end of each section.

Additionally, a Parent's Code of Ethics is listed on the bottom of the site. 

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Listed under: Youth, Families, Build Champions, Provide Resources, Educate & Train

Parent’s Guide to Misconduct in Sport

SafeSport

Designed for the parents of athletes of all ages, this course explains the issues of misconduct in sport and helps parents ensure their children have a positive and safe sport experience.

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Listed under: Youth, High School, College, Families, Educate & Train, Raise Awareness

Partner in Prevention Program

Darkness to Light

Organizations that apply and are approved are recognized as a Darkness to Light Partner in Prevention for a period of one year. The organization is given a dated Partner in Prevention emblem to display at their facility, place on their website, and use on printed materials. The emblem is a sign to the community that the organization has made a commitment to prevention and has put measures in place to prevent child sexual abuse in their organization and in their community.

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Listed under: Youth, Leagues, Join Communities of Practice, Educate & Train

Partner in Prevention Training

Darkness to Light

Organizations that apply and are approved are recognized as a Darkness to Light Partner in Prevention for a period of one year. The organization is given a dated 
Partner in Prevention   emblem to display at their facility, place on their website, and use on printed materials. The emblem is a sign to the community that the organization has made a commitment to prevention and has put measures in place to prevent child sexual abuse in their organization and in their community.

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Listed under: High School, Youth, Coaches, Leagues, Engage in Partnership, Provide Resources, Educate & Train

Personal & Online Safety Discussion Guide - Age 5 to 10

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

It is important to talk to young children about safety without overwhelming or scaring them. These discussion guides offer age-appropriate messages and strategies to help you start a conversation about personal and online safety.
 

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Personal and Online Safety Discussion Guide - Age 11 to 17

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

It is important to talk to young children about safety without overwhelming or scaring them. These discussion guides offer age-appropriate messages and strategies to help you start a conversation about personal and online safety.
 

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Listed under: High School, Youth, Athletes, Families, Provide Resources, Educate & Train

Podcast on media coverage of SV/DV

ESPN Radio

Sarah talks to Keri Potts about the role the media plays in covering sexual and partner violence.

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Listed under: Youth, High School, College, Pro, Administrators, Leagues, Educate & Train

Positive Coaching Alliance Workshops

Positive Coaching Alliance

Typically, an individual school or youth sports organization hosts a Leadership workshop for its directors, a separate Double-Goal Coach workshop for all its coaches, and a separate Second-Goal Parent workshop. A Triple-Impact Competitor workshop is available for teenage athletes in the school or organization. PCA also offers Partnerships that include workshops for school districts, conferences, park-and-recreation organizations, leagues, and youth sports consortiums in all 50 states and several other nations. Each workshop takes anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours and is led by a PCA Trainer with deep athletic and coaching experience (usually at least three years at the high school level or above). The Trainer explains PCA's three key principles -- Redefining "Winning" as Mastery of Sport, Filling Emotional Tanks and Honoring the Game -- and leads attendees through a series of interactive exercises based on common youth sports scenarios. The result is that the group of leaders, coaches, parents or athletes begins to explore different approaches for success and establishes a common vocabulary for use in providing athletes a positive, character-building youth sports environment.

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Listed under: High School, Youth, Coaches, Families, Leagues, Engage in Partnership, Build Champions, Provide Resources, Educate & Train

Practical Guide for Youth Serving Organizations

Enough Abuse

A capacity building grant from the Ms. Foundation for Women and a seed grant from The Boston Bruins Foundation supported the development of our "GateKeepers for Kids: A Practical Guide for Youth Service Organizations" program. Its objective is to educate these institutions about the basics they must have in place to strengthen their child protection policies and practices. This 12-page Practical Guide details the latest training, screening and reporting strategies in the field and a set of Fact Sheets on training, screening, reporting, steps to develop a code of conduct so inappropriate behaviors can be identified early before they escalate to abuse, how to assess and modify physical spaces to reduce opportunities for sexual abuse to occur, etc.

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Listed under: Youth, Leagues, Enforce Policy, Provide Resources

Protecting Against Abuse Training for Coaches and Parents

National Alliance for Youth Sports

The National Alliance for Youth Sports is aware that child abuse in sports is an extremely important topic for coaches and parents of young athletes, regardless of the age or gender of the players. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys are sexually abused before their 18th birthdays.

Because this is such an important subject, we have created optional protecting against abuse training courses for NAYS Coaches and NAYS Parents as a supplement to the information they received during their training.

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Listed under: Youth, Coaches, Families, Provide Resources, Educate & Train

Protecting Children From Violence in Sport Report

UNICEF

In recognition of this, the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre commissioned a review of the available empirical research and policy initiatives on this subject. The research resulted in a wealth of information, now published in this report. ‘Protecting Children from Violence in Sport: A review with a focus on industrialized countries’ defines the many aspects of the issue, provides examples of both good and poor practice, and makes suggestions for sport organizations to assist them in their violence prevention work. In particular, the study recommends improvements in:

• Data collection and knowledge generation about violence to children in sport

• Development of structures and systems for eliminating and preventing violence to children in sport

• Education, awareness-raising and training on this subject

• Promotion of ethical guidelines and codes of conduct as part of the prevention system.

It is anticipated that by addressing these gaps, significant improvements will be realized for the promotion and protection of the rights of children in sport.

Listed under: Youth, Leagues, Provide Resources, Measure Impact

Right to Play Child Protection Policy

Right to Play

This resource is Right to Play's Child Protect Policy template, which includes procedures for responding to sexual abuse reports. 

Right To Play is an international humanitarian and development organization that uses sport and play to improve health and life skills, and foster peace for children and communities in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the world. We recognize that we have a fundamental duty of care towards children and we acknowledge our responsibilities to keep children safe while engaged in our programs and activities.

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Listed under: Youth, Leagues, Enforce Policy

Run Through Bullying Campaign

Arizona Cardinals & Stomp Out Bullying

Partnership includes engagement in My Cause, My Cleats where Cardinals running back David Johnson’s cleats told the story of his being bullied as a child and his work with STOMP OUT Bullying to help other kids going through the same experience. Running Back David Johnson also met with 80 students from Phoenix and Glendale after practice to begin his “Run Thru Bullying” campaign. Johnson, who told the kids his own story of being bullied, will spend the next six-to-eight weeks raising awareness for the issue.

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Listed under: Pro, Youth, Athletes, Leagues, Raise Awareness, Engage in Partnership

Safe To Compete

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Protecting children and providing safe spaces for them to learn, play and grow is central to the mission of every youth-serving organization.

Safe to Compete is a program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) which provides access to resources to help youth-sports organizations and the families of child athletes protect those children from sexual abuse.

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Listed under: Youth, Families, Leagues, Provide Resources, Educate & Train