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Positive Coaching Alliance

Search thousands of resources to develop better athletes, better people. Search by "Topic in Sport" to reach Preventing Sexual Abuse specific resources.

General resource sections include, Recruiting, 1st time coaching, tryouts, playing time, and parent/coach conflict. You can search by role as well (Coach, Parent, Athlete, Admin/Leader, and Official/Referee). 

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How to be Trauma Sensitive & Responsive in your Coaching

Play Like A Champion

Young people today are exposed to a variety of situations that may induce trauma. Play Like a Champion provides the following information to help coaches understand trauma and to respond to trauma and its impact on today’s youth. This page includes several downloadable resources for coaches on this critical topic.

Attachment: Trauma Responsive Coaching.pdf

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#BeThatGuy SuperBowl Campaign

Breakthrough

Uncool behavior can happen anywhere–and it’s definitely a buzzkill when it does. But we know that sports fans are not fans of sexual harassment. So join the team. Stand up against harassment, and declare your party a safe space for all: #BeThatGuy At the Super Bowl and find 7 ways to create a culture in which all people are safe, respected, and able to be their best selves.

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10 Commandments for Sport Parents

Play Like A Champion

Tip sheet for parents to positively engage youth athletes in discussion, goal-setting, and framing sport participation. 

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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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All Pro Dad Campaign

Family First & Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Family First and the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence (FCADV) partnered to take a stand against domestic violence throughout Florida. The partnership provides the opportunity to collaborate and share common messages about domestic violence prevention, strong families, and healthy relationships, focusing on engaging boys, men and especially fathers.Family First is a national nonprofit organization that reaches millions of parents each day through its three primary programs: All Pro Dad, iMOM and the Family Minute with Mark Merrill. 

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Bullying Prevention Training for Coaches and Parents

National Alliance for Youth Sports

The National Alliance for Youth Sports is aware that bullying in sports is an extremely important topic for coaches and parents of young athletes regardless of the age of the players. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found 20% of high school aged kids have experienced some form of bullying on school grounds alone in their lifetime. Those numbers only increase when incorporating recreation sports.

Because this is such an important subject, we have created optional bullying prevention training courses for NAYS Coaches and NAYS Parents as a supplement to the information they received during their training. NAYS has also decided to offer this course to everyone, completely FREE!

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Circles of Safety

Stop It Now!, USA Football, Center for Violence Prevention

The Center for Violence Prevention (CVPR), Stop It Now!, and USA Football have received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to evaluate Circles of Safety, a child sexual abuse prevention program that teaches adults how to identify and interrupt boundary violating behavior with youth. The evaluate will examine outcomes from the program in community-based youth football leagues.

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Handout for Dads

All Pro Dads

All Pro Dad is committed to building strong families and partnered with the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence to create this handout that encourages dads to teach their sons how to treat a girl. 

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Key Actions Handout/Video for Parents and Coaches

Positive Coaching Alliance

These materials for youth and high school sports parents and coaches can help prevent sex abuse. These resources were developed through PCA's partnership with Kidpower International, a leading non-profit in teaching personal safety to all ages and abilities and in protecting young people from bullying, violence, and abuse worldwide since 1989. They include support by Green Bay Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy, a PCA National Advisory Board Member.

Murphy said of these resources: “Abuse prevention is critical to providing children a positive, character-building youth sports experience. That’s why the Packers and I support this effort by PCA and its partners. The more we can spread these abuse-prevention resources, the safer our kids will be.”

This document includes key actions for parents and coaches and is accompanied by this video. You’ll learn about common warning signs of sexual abuse as well as what you can do in your role.

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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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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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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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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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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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Refuse to Abuse

Seattle Mariners (MLB) & Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence

The basics

Refuse To Abuse® is a statewide community education program that helps prevent domestic violence. The program is sponsored by the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Seattle Mariners, with significant assistance from the advertising firm Craters of the Moon. Television, radio, and print public service announcements have been produced featuring prominent Mariners players and managers, including Felix Hernandez, Jamie Moyer, Raul Ibañez, and Kyle Seager. An annual Refuse To Abuse® 5K at Safeco Field draws Mariners fans, runners, walkers, and community supporters, giving a broad audience the chance to join the Mariners and “refuse to abuse.”

Purpose

Refuse To Abuse® aims to raise awareness and help prevent domestic violence. High profile athletes and recognized community leaders are speaking out against domestic violence and asking for a commitment from others in the community to join them.

Why the Mariners are involved

Few professional teams have chosen to take such a public stand against domestic violence. For the past 21 years the Seattle Mariners have done more than just talk about helping raise awareness about this issue, they have stood firm in their leadership role. Having credible, professional male athletes speak out on this issue helps send a powerful message to young people.

About the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WSCADV)

WSCADV is a non-profit network of nearly 70 community domestic violence programs. We improve how communities respond to domestic violence and work to create a social intolerance for abuse. 

Attachment: Refuse To Abuse.pdf

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