Safe Sport

[Anonymous]

What is the process when a report is made about a coach to safe sport? Does anyone have experience with navigating the process as the parent of an athlete? Presumably it’s about using inappropriate/abusive language.

Is there a way to look up the report, or is published after it’s been resolved?

[Anonymous]

There’s a database you can search

https://uscenterforsafesport.org/response-and-resolution/centralized-disciplinary-database/

[Anonymous]

My understanding is SafeSport is so overwhelmed with sexual misconduct there is little time to give to accusations of anything else. Its unfortunate.

[Anonymous]

The above is my understanding as well. Basically, unless it’s really bad, reporting it to safe sport will do nothing.

It’s what your organization will tell you to do so they can ignore it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is SafeSport is so overwhelmed with sexual misconduct there is little time to give to accusations of anything else. Its unfortunate.

Terrible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is SafeSport is so overwhelmed with sexual misconduct there is little time to give to accusations of anything else. Its unfortunate.

Terrible

Yes this is true. A parent told me they tried to report a coach for verbally abusive behavior and get this extortion but Safesport was not interested and said they don't handle that type of thing.

[Anonymous]

FWIW, there is no oversight for many youth sports. You only find this out the hard way. You can try the state governing body but you'll probably learn they don't have a person who fields reports either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is SafeSport is so overwhelmed with sexual misconduct there is little time to give to accusations of anything else. Its unfortunate.

Same, and they’re so bogged down that even the big issues take years to investigate.

[Anonymous]

Yikes. I just got an email reminder to update my training. Here I thought the certification was worthwhile as a deterrent and to give parents some reason to believe you're not a loser or perv. I guess not! Sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yikes. I just got an email reminder to update my training. Here I thought the certification was worthwhile as a deterrent and to give parents some reason to believe you're not a loser or perv. I guess not! Sad.

As one who just got the same reminder email, I think it does give parents some reason to believe you’re not a perv. It just does nothing to protect kids from swearing coaches or those that use borderline abusive and outdated “coaching techniques.”

[Anonymous]

If SafeSport can’t handle all the inquiries they get it seems they need to hire a larger staff or at least stop promoting all the issues they cover when the reality is they don’t. It seems governing bodies have given authority to SafeSport to handle these issues to not have to deal with it themselves. However, too many concerns are not addressed and people with complaints are stuck in this loop of SafeSport saying they don’t have time/resources and the governing body claiming SafeSport is responsible. I’m waiting for something to sue SafeSport for misrepresenting what they do and for someone to sue their sports governing body for failing to act.

[Anonymous]

For my kid, the abusing coach had my kid do the safe sport training online in the coach’s name. In other words, they had my kid log on in their name and do the training. Coach was grooming my kid in a classic way. Kid “doesn’t think” anything happened but “doesn’t remember” and doesn’t want to report.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is SafeSport is so overwhelmed with sexual misconduct there is little time to give to accusations of anything else. Its unfortunate.

Same, and they’re so bogged down that even the big issues take years to investigate.

Yes and really devalues other types of abuse such as other types of physical/verbal, racism and other discrimination, financial matters. There have been so many problems in the youth sports industry that you would think someone would have come up with money to figure out a way to have more oversight. These are our children!

[Anonymous]

We had a coach rush at a player yelling and swearing, more than 8 accounts for parents and other coaches standing by. Parents and coaches pulling their players off the field due to it. Safesport didn’t want to get involved and the the local council decided that because a coach said stay away from our players and that aggressive coach yelled and cursed, nothing happened. The children were all crying and scared. Consoled by parents and coaches of other teams. Everyone wrote in but the testimony from their parents was, I didn’t see much and it was blurry or I couldn’t see much or hear anything and then riddled with fictitious claims, but protecting themselves from slander and liable during the hearing with their recollection could be wrong. Children still the main concern, no one cared, they just suspended both coaches because they said they yelled at each other, which is contradicted in all testimony.

This is the world we are living in.

[Anonymous]

It's a nice idea but it's ineffective. Don't expect anything productive to come from it.