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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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IMPACT Administrators' Toolkit

Men As Peacemakers

A 6-step guide to saftey & gender equity in sports.

This toolkit includes resources for Executive Directors, Club Presidents, Coaching Directors or other leaders of community athletic organizations. The resources included will teach your coaches to promote safety, respect, and gender equity with all players. This guide is meant to provide examples and a framework for the development of your organization’s policies and procedures. Our previous work with the Minnesota State High School League, Arrowhead Youth Soccer Association, Winona Youth Soccer Association, and other sports organizations, has taught us that every organization is unique. We encourage you to work with us directly to tailor your approach to your specific community of coaches and players. Contact Men As Peacemakers at info@menaspeacemakers.org or 218-727-1939 to get started.

Attachment: Administrators-Toolkit_9-25.pdf

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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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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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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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Character Initiative Grant (InSideOut Program)

InSideOut Initiative, Arlington School District, and Dallas Cowboys (NFL)

InSideOut Initiative began in January 2016 with the the Dallas Cowboys in coordination with the NFL Foundation on a character education program that has been endorsed by the UIL and the Texas High School Coaches Association. The Cowboys have helped host three InSideOut meetings with key superintendents and athletic decision-makers across the start to help bring awareness to this initiative.

Subsequently, the Arlington ISD was awarded nearly $30,000 in grants from the Gene and Jerry Jones Family Arlington Youth Foundation to support a character training initiative for 375 AISD secondary coaches with Joe Ehrmann, former NFL Colts player and co-founder of the InSideOut Initiative and Jody Redman, InSideOut Initiative co-founder and Minnesota State High School League associate director.

For more on the national InSideOut Initative, visit https://insideoutinitiative.org/

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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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Cleveland Says NO MORE Campaign

Cleveland Browns (NFL), Domestic Violence & Child Advocacy Center, and City of Cleveland's Division of Police

The Cleveland Browns partnered with the City of Cleveland’s Division of Police as well as the Domestic Violence & Child Advocacy Center to help create awareness for Domestic Violence during the month of October (2016) and to support efforts locally in Cleveland.  This included support of the Division of Police’s Cleveland Says NO MORE initiative, and the DVCAC’s programming and services offered to those affected by DV. Throughout the month of October, the City, community partners and sponsors hosted weekly events to raise awareness about domestic violence and ask Clevelander’s to join in the City’s campaign efforts to end violence.

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Fear 2 Freedom Packaging Event

Fear 2 Freedom & Washington Redskins (NFL)

Washington Redskins (NFL) rookies, veterans and staff members on Monday assembled care packages for victims of domestic violence.  The kits include new clothing, toiletries, childrens' toys, a "Freedom Bear" and storybook that serves as a counseling tool. The afternoon began in the auditorium at Redskins Park, where all team representatives listened to a survivor of sexual assault prior to assembling the kits. The F2F kits assembled by the Redskins players and staff will be distrivuted to the Inova Health System Ewing Forensic Assessment and Consultation Teams (FACT) and other local domestic violence shelters.

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Game Change: The Patriot's Anti-Violence Partnership

New England Patriots (NFL) Charitable Foundation, MA Attorney General's Office, and Robert Kraft

Robert Kraft (New England Patriot's owner) and the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation teamed with Attorney General Maura Healey to create Game Change: The Patriots Anti-Violence Program. The program works with anti-violence organizations to provide support to victims of domestic violence, while also providing anti-violence training to students.  The goal of the program is to build the capacity in 98 area schools to implement effective violence prevention education for students, coaches and faculty.  Game Change is a multi-year, multi-phased initiative with a budget of $650,000 ($500K of which was provided by Mr. Kraft and the Patriots, $150K provided by the AGO).

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IMPACT Prevention Resources

Men As Peacemakers

This guide is designed to help coaches like you promote respect and equality, reduce violence and identify signs of abuse among your players.

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Impact Toolkit

Men As Peacemakers

Coaches already serve as one of the most important role models in the lives of your players. We want to help ensure coaches are leaving a lasting, positive impact on your players. The Impact Coaching Toolkit provides coaches with tips, examples, and methods for promoting respect and gender equity and recognizing signs of harassment and abuse.

THE TOOLKIT

• Awareness Guide- a pocket reference that gives you the tools necessary to recognize harm and take appropriate action
• Coaches’ Insert- a preventative guide to promoting messages of respect and gender equity with your players
• Clipboard
• Bag-tag

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Impact Training Program

Men As Peacemakers

Impact Training Program trains coaches to actualize their potential as a key role model in the lives of their players.

Our programs drive a process of change through:

• Key note speaking engagements
• Online courses
• On-the-ground trainings
• Impact Coaching Toolkit
• Action plans, policies, procedures, and mission statements for athletic organizations
• General technical assistance

The Impact project shapes equitable athletic environments free from sexism, harassment, and harm. We are utilizing the power and influence of sports to prevent violence against women and children. 

Impact provides tools for athletic organizations and coaches to ensure they are leaving a lasting, positive impact on players.

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InSideOut Initative

InSideOut Initiative

To reclaim the educational purpose of sports, school communities must work together to redefine the purpose, and intentionally align key stakeholders around this purpose. It’s critical that school leaders and communities have an in-depth understanding of the purpose of education-based athletic programs, and use a shared common language. The InSideOut System provides a pathway for systemic change—moving educational communities through a four-part process centering on Awareness, Alignment, Action, and Accountability. 

• Awareness – Defines the purpose of education-based athletics
• Alignment – Instills a common language
• Action – Provides education, resources and tools
• Accountability – Establishes clear expectations, policies and procedures

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InSideOut Initiative Evaluation

InSideOut Initiative

This ongoing evaluation is investigating the implementation and overall impact of the InSideOut Initiative. Findings are determining best practices for replicating the Initiative across diverse NFL markets by comparing present implementation and outcomes in Colorado and Texas to ongoing efforts in Minnesota. The evaluation of impact is investigating the degree to which the initiative aligns communities, establishes support, and prepares and empowers. 

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InSideOut Training Process

The InSideOut training provides a blueprint for systemic change through the InSideOut System and the InSideOut Philosophy that defines and elevates the purpose, teaches a common language, provides resources and curriculum and employs strategies that hold school communities accountable to developing the human potential of students. This training process includes:

1. Leadership - Statewide leadership gathers for a day-long training to engage in conversation around the purpose of education-based athletics, establish a shared common language, and to define state specific implementation strategies.  Leadership includes NFL community relations executives, representatives from the state high school athletic associations, athletic administrators, school boards, superintendents, and principals associations, departments of education, legislators, and other influential leaders.

2. Implementation - School Implementation Teams come together to learn the InSideOut System—which creates space in the culture for sports to be about the human growth and development of students.  Teams will also engage in the InSideOut Philosophy, which provides specific tools to enable and equip them to take an InSideOut journey that will challenge and inspire them to define and bring to life their transformational purpose.  School Implementation Teams leave with an InSideOut Action Plan to be implemented in their school community.

3. Sustainability - The InSideOut Initiative provides a clear pathway and prepares School Implementation Teams to reclaim the educational purpose of sports.  InSideOut Schools have access to a national network of school communities engaged in InSideOut movement, along with collected best practices, proven strategies, resources, curriculum and ongoing support.

Through a well-defined pathway, supportive leadership and intentional coaching, school communities successfully reclaim the educational purpose of sports.

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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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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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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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