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Athletic Trainers as Leaders in Sexual Violence Prevention

RALIANCE

Athletic trainers are committed to using the best available evidence and practices to support the total development of the student-athlete.  Research has shown the damaging physical and mental health impacts of sexual harassment, assault, and abuse on youth and young adults. Beyond assessing for violence, reporting disclosures of sexual violence, and connecting survivors for resources – there’s a critical need for coaches, athletic directors, sport medicine professionals, and athletic trainers to take action toward preventing sexual violence before it happens.

At RALIANCE, we know and believe in the potential of sport to prevent sexual and domestic violence, both in the world of athletics and beyond. In 2019, we partnered with Michigan State University (MSU) to host an invitation-only listening session that brought together athletic trainers from across the B1G (Big Ten) Conference and selected Division II and Division III universities to discuss the role of athletic trainers in preventing sexual violence.

Our new report, Athletic Trainers as Leaders in Sexual Violence Prevention, draws on the perspectives of this group to outline the unique role of athletic trainers in the sport pipeline, opportunities athletic trainers identified to promote sexual violence prevention, and the supports needed to carry out this vision.

This report looks at:

• How the role of athletic trainers is unique in the sport pipeline
• Why athletic trainers are poised to promote sexual violence prevention
• What athletic trainers need to be leaders in preventing sexual violence
• The barriers athletic trainers face to realizing this role and priorities to overcome them

Attachment: AT_SVP_Report_final(2).pdf

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Roll Red Roll Toolkits

Roll Red Roll

Roll Red Roll is a documentary film about a sexual assault in Steubenville, OH, and how it impacted the town and garnered national attention. Since its release in 2018, Roll Red Roll has led to conversations about rape culture, the role sport plays in sexual violence, and how to create lasting social change.

RALIANCE in partnership with the Roll Red Roll social impact team, Open Door Abuse Awareness Prevention, and MenChallenging has created two toolkits to help coaches, athletic administrators, guidance counselors, and sexual violence prevention advocates discuss the film with their student athletes and spark social change. The first toolkit adapts conversations, discussion questions, and selected clips in thematic sections for college athletes, while the second toolkit focuses on high school athletes.

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Roll Red Roll Toolkits

Roll Red Roll

Roll Red Roll is a documentary film about a sexual assault in Steubenville, OH, and how it impacted the town and garnered national attention. Since its release in 2018, Roll Red Roll has led to conversations about rape culture, the role sport plays in sexual violence, and how to create lasting social change.

RALIANCE in partnership with the Roll Red Roll social impact team, Open Door Abuse Awareness Prevention, and MenChallenging has created two toolkits to help coaches, athletic administrators, guidance counselors, and sexual violence prevention advocates discuss the film with their student athletes and spark social change. The first toolkit adapts conversations, discussion questions, and selected clips in thematic sections for college athletes, while the second toolkit focuses on high school athletes.

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#SafeOutside

#SafeOutside

From the #SafeOutside website: "#SafeOutside is an independent grassroots initiative designed to combat sexual harassment and sexual assault (SHSA). Organizations from climbing and outdoor communities around the world have joined forces to collect data, drive conversation, share best practices, provide press coverage and address the issues."

As a result of data collection and collaboration across sectors, #SafeOutside created a report on sexual harassment and sexual assault in climbing communities, and a toolkit for addressing sexual harassment and sexual assault in outdoor recreation and other other industries.  Also available on the site media examples for raising awareness about sexual harassment and sexual assault in climbing and outdoor recreation communities.

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#SetTheExpectation

#SetTheExpectation

Brenda Tracy founded #SetTheExpectation to combat sexual violence through raising awareness, giving and serving, education and direct engagement with coaches, students and athletes in high school, collegiate and professional athletic programs. The website has various pledges available for men's and women's athletic teams, communities, and fraternities and sororities to take to pledge to set an expectation that does not tolerate sexual violence. There are several resources and templates for policy change and actions to prevent sexual violence in sport.

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2017 NCAA Inclusion Forum

NCAA

The NCAA Inclusion Forum brings together higher education and intercollegiate athletics leaders and student-athletes passionate about improving the educational and professional environment for student-athletes, coaches and staff. Sessions engage on a broad range of topics related to policy, research and best practices that support racial and ethnic minorities, women, international student-athletes, LGBTQ and athletes with disabilities.

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A CALL TO MEN Speakers

A CALL TO MEN

A CALL TO MEN speaks at hundreds of events annually.  From introductory workshops, multi-day trainings, and community and government events, to corporate trainings and national conferences, A CALL TO MEN can customize programming to meet the needs of the organization.

With a seasoned group of Core Trainers, A CALL TO MEN also offers subject matter experts that specialize in the following:

• Preventing sexual assault, sexual harassment, violence and discrimination in the military

• Preventing sexual assault, violence and discrimination in college and universities

• Preventing gang and community violence

• Preventing violence and discrimination in faith communities

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Adaptive Sports Abuse Prevention (ASAP) Train-the-Trainer Conference

IMPACT Boston

IMPACT Bosten hosts a free train-the-trainer conference for the Adaptive Sports Abuse Prevention (ASAP) curriculum. ASAP is one of the few curricula designed specifically for coaches, trainers, volunteers and leaders of programs that work with athletes with disabilities. This conference will equip participants to teach the 5-session curriculum within their organizations. The event is made possible by the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation and is held in collaboration with the U.S. Center for SafeSport.

ASAP is a dynamic, interactive program in which participants learn to:

• Recognize abuse and sexual misconduct
• Interrupt unsafe or inappropriate interactions that could escalate to abuse
• Think critically and productively about safe touch and healthy relationships
• Report sexual abuse and collaborate with a local rape crisis center

The training conference takes place March 29 and 30, 2022 in Colorado Springs.

Attachment: ASAP Conference 2022.pdf

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Athlete Ally program

Athlete Ally

Athlete Ally is a 501c-3 nonprofit organization that provides public awareness campaigns, educational programming and tools and resources to foster inclusive sports communities. We mobilize Ambassadors in collegiate, professional and Olympic sports who work to foster “allyship” in their athletic environments. The programs include Ambassadors from over 80 colleges and over 100 professional athletes.

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Beyond Sport United 2017

Beyond Sport

Beyond Sport United 2017 brought to life social movements, advocacy and activism through two days of thought provoking and engaging content.

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Branded a Leader Training

Institute for Sport and Social Justice

Branded a Leader, created in 2008 by the National Consortium for Academics & Sports (NCAS),now officially the Institute For Sport & Social Justice (Institute SSJ) was developed in partnership with Michigan State University. Michigan State’s Student Athlete Support Services was seeking a training that would engage their student-athletes in educational discussions on key issues such as: Violence Against Women, Alcohol & Drugs, Hazing and Responsible Computing. The Southeastern Conference (SEC) adopted BAL as a conference-wide training initiative beginning in 2008.

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Champions Building Champions

Men As Peacemakers

Champions Building Champions is a highly successful athletic mentoring program that connects Duluth youth with college athletes. With the help of our partners, Arrowhead Youth Soccer Association, UMD athletics, the Boys and Girls Club, and Duluth Parks, we run weekly sports sessions for youth. Our activities are free and open to everyone. We provide athletic opportunities for all youth, regardless of economic background.

All activities are facilitated by collegiate athletes who focus on building constructive relationships with the youth involved.  By providing kids with strong male and female role models we strive to instill positive values: respect, gender equity, commitment, and leadership.

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Coaching Boys into Men Program

Futures Without Violence

FUTURES’ Coaching Boys into Men (CBIM) program facilitates these connections by providing high school athletic coaches with the resources they need to promote respectful behavior among their players and help prevent relationship abuse, harassment, and sexual assault")

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Coaching Boys into Men Video Series

Futures Without Violence & FISA Foundation

This site provides video resources to supplement the Coaching Boys Into Men dating violence prevention program for high school athletic coaches to use with their male athletes. If you have the curricula, you can proceed to Getting Started videos to help you prepare to deliver CBIM, or use the menu to skip to any of the topics in the card series. FISA Foundation, in partnership with The Heinz Endowments and the United Way of Allegheny County developed Southwest PA Says No More to showcase the important prevention-focused work happening here, and to make it easier for individuals and organizations to take action to stop gender-based violence. One area of focus is Sport and Athletics.

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Coaching Peace Presentations

Coaching Peace

You can listen to someone talk, hear their perspective, their stories and their ideas.  Or, you can engage in a conversation with an insightful thought provoking leader in organizational effectiveness about how to create the culture you want to create, make sustainable changes or get clear about what actions will get you where you want to be.  At Coaching Peace, our presentations mirror the latter. 

While each of our presentations are tailored to an organization some topics have been:

• Creating Positive Cultures
• Understanding Equity and Inclusion
• Motivating and Empowering Learners 
• Building Empathy
• Creating Dynamic Leaders

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College Athletics Role in SV Prevention Report

NCAA

This best practice guide for athletics administrators and campus partners provides recommended approaches to prevent or reduce the incidents of sexual assault and other acts of interpersonal violence on college campuses.

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Escalation Workshop

One Love Foundation

OneLove Foundation's Escalation workshop is a powerful, emotionally-engaging 90-minute film based workshop that educates your community about relationship violence and empowers you to work for change. This workshop is research based and is facilitated by students. Access to this resource is FREE. Additionally, athletes and other leaders can be trained as facilitators of this workshop. 

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Guidelines for Administrators, Coaches, and Athletes

Women's Sports Foundation

Officials who are responsible for the administration and oversight of coaches and athletic programs should implement a policy prohibiting any ritual verbal, psychological or physical abuse of any player by a coach or fellow teammate that assaults, belittles or demeans. Suggestions for action and definitions of abuse are outlined here. 

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Huddle Up to End Gender Based Violence

Institute for Sport and Social Justice

Huddle Up leverages the transcendent power of sport to eradicate gender violence, in all of its forms, and the sexism underpinning this abuse. In sport, the huddle is a powerful symbol of togetherness, a place where many become one. In the huddle, teammates convene to reinforce their union, challenge & support one another, and communicate strategy. In the huddle, teammates forget past set-backs, galvanize conviction, and always have a unified front against the opponent. Huddle Up harnesses that power by challenging, educating, and empowering participants to be "all-in" to defeat our opponent – sexist abuse.

Huddle Up addresses the full continuum of abusive behaviors and empowers participants to understand how misogynistic language, sexual harassment, gendered bullying, sexual assault, rape and domestic violence are linked together. This understanding inspires participants to have the courage to challenge behaviors on all levels of the continuum.

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I AM THAT GIRL: Modern Girls on a Mission

Alexis Jones

Alexis Jones wants to redefine the meaning of “beautiful” and ignite an empowering revolution for females that will help them see themselves in a different light. This inspiring talk reveals the reality behind many of the images women see in the media and explains the pitfalls of relying on outside appearance as a measurement of self-worth. Instead, Alexis encourages girls to look inward for purpose, value, and power. What does it mean to be a powerful woman? How can you find strength in your imperfections? How can you use your unique voice to lift up other women instead of tearing them down? Alexis will answer these questions and teach you how to be that independent, confident girl who dares to lead other women into changing the world.

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