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NCAA Sexual Violence Prevention Toolkit

NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association)

The NCAA Sexual Assault Task Force convened in 2015 to provide clear direction on a curriculum that will help athletics departments engage in education, collaboration and compliance surrounding sexual violence issues. This tool kit, initiated by the task force, builds on critical elements outlined in the fall 2014 NCAA publication “Addressing Sexual Assault and Interpersonal Violence: Athletics’ Role in Support of Healthy and Safe Campuses.” The toolkit focuses on 5 areas of commitment with checklists and implementation tools:

1. Leadership

2. Collaboration

3. Compliance and Accountability

4. Education

5. Student-Athlete Engagement 

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NO MORE

NO MORE

NO MORE aims to raise public awareness and engagement around ending domestic violence and sexual assault. Launched in March 2013 by a coalition of leading advocacy groups, service providers, the U.S. Department of Justice, and major corporations, NO MORE is supported by hundreds of national and local groups and by thousands of individuals, organizations, universities, and communities who are using its signature blue symbol to increase visibility for domestic violence and sexual assault.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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Safe4Athletes Organization

Safe4Athletes

Safe4Athlete's mission is to advocate for athlete welfare where every athlete is provided a safe and positive environment free of abuse, bullying and harassment.

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SafeSport Policies and Procedures

US Center for SafeSport

Acces links to SafeSport's Code, Practices and Procedures, and Supplementary rules as well as resources for the resoluation and arbitration process.

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SafeSport Resources and Publications

US Center for SafeSport

Access the US Center for SafeSport catalog of resources here, including (but not limited to) guides on navigating SafeSport's policies and procedures, statement of rights, and a glossary of terms.

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Safety 360 Program

National Center for Safety Initiatives

Protecting vulnerable populations requires more than just background screening . It takes constant diligence, an understanding of legal requirements, keeping up on the latest industry information and more. All of this can cost you and your organization a lot of time that could be better spent focusing your attention on the people you serve.

Working with NCSI takes away the burden of dealing with this on your own. Through our exclusive NCSI 360™ program, we fully manage every aspect of the risk management process for you from start to finish, beginning with the overall program design and continuing through to the compliance requirements.

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Scenarios and Discussion Guides

Mentors in Violence Prevention Strategies

MVP provides College and High School resources and tools for working with both male and female athletes that uses scenarios to lead discussions. This site also includes a handout called "10 Things Men Can Do to Prevent Gender Violence" in 6 languages. 

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Sexual Violence Prevention Tool Kit

NCAA - Sports Science Institute

The tool kit, framed by A Call to Action for NCAA member schools to address sexual violence prevention on their campuses, provides resource-independent tools for athletics administrators in their efforts to create campus communities free of violence and safe places for students to learn and thrive. Contained in the tool kit are five core commitments: 1.Leadership 2. Collaboration 3.Compliance and Accountability 4.Education 5.Student-Athlete Engagement. These core commitments are essential for culture change, and identified in the tool kit as well as downloadable resources for athletics departments and university partners to use in support of their sexual violence prevention efforts.

Attachment: SSI_Sexual-Violence-Prevention-Tool-Kit_20161117.pdf

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Shelter Renovation Partnership

Green Bay Packers (NFL) & Golden House

The Green Bay Packers (NFL) partnered with Golden House to help renovate two of the five rooms at the shelter in 2016. 

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