The Safe Sport Recognized Club Program (SSRP) allows a USA Swimming member club to demonstrate its commitment to creating an abuse-free, safe, healthy, and positive environment for all its members. Using a web-based tool through their club portal, clubs can earn SSRP status by describing club procedures, uploading their policies, and verifying education and training efforts. Once completed, clubs receive a badge to display on their club website and will be designated as Safe Sport Recognized on the USA Swimming Find-A-Club online search tool. Contact Mandy Smith to get started.
Safe Sport Recognized Clubs in Louisiana currently:
- Crescent City Swim Club
- Crawfish Aquatics
- Nu Wave Swim Club
Overview of what's needed for the Safe Sport Recognition Program you are:
Step-by-Step Guide
REQUIRED SSRP EDUCATION – either in a group setting or individual
Group Presentations Presented by USA Swimming:
Starting April 2020, the USA Swimming Safe Sport staff has been hosting Zoom trainings for parents, minor athletes and coaches to assist clubs in completing the Training and Education requirement of the Safe Sport Club Recognition program
Individual Required Education:
- For every 10% of the club’s households to complete this training, the club will earn 1 point toward their SafeSport Recognition Program (SSRP)
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Instructions for Parents
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Instructions for Athletes
- Link parent and athlete's account
For Adult (18+) Swimmers, & Coaches:
- Go to: https://university.usaswimming.org/landing
- You may need to turn off pop-up blockers on your web browser
- Select Parents/Volunteers:
- Select SafeSport Parent’s Guide to Misconduct in Sport
- Click on View Info
- Click on Login; you will be prompted to login or create a login if you are not currently a member
- Click on Start
- After completing the course, click on submit
- To download the certificate, click on view transcript and click on the course “Download Certificate” button.
- The member record should be automatically updated to reflect course completion usually within 48 hours. If not, send a copy of your completion certificate along with your name and member ID to [email protected]
For Athletes Ages 13-17:
- Go to: https://university.usaswimming.org/landing
- You may need to turn off pop-up blockers on your web browser
- Select Athletes:
- Select SSRP, Select Safesport for Youth Athletes (13-17)
- Click on View Info
- Click on Login; you will be prompted to login or create a login if you are not currently a member
- Click on Start
- After completing the course, click on submit
- To download the certificate, click on view transcript and click on the course “Download Certificate” button.
- The member record should be automatically updated to reflect course completion usually within 48 hours. If not, send a copy of your completion certificate along with your name and member ID to [email protected]
Virtual Team Meetings:
USA Swimming member clubs are seeking unique opportunities to remain connected with athletes and parents. One unique way to remain connected and complete the training component of Safe Sport Club Recognition is to host a virtual training.
- Schedule a virtual meeting for either parents or athletes to attend.
- Visit https://www.usaswimming.org/; Click on Login/Register to log in to your account.
- Next click on Education in the blue toolbar.
- Select Course Catalog.
- Select Safe Sport Courses.
- Select SSRP.
- For young athlete training, select SafeSport for Kids (5-12).
- For an athlete training, select Safe Sport for Youth Athletes (13-17).
- For a parent training, select Parent’s Guide to Misconduct in Sport.
- Conduct a virtual meeting with athletes or parents by sharing your screen and viewing the training course together. When you share your screen, ensure that you also share the sound from your device so those watching can hear the training audio.
- Record attendance. A simple way to do this is to have participants send their name to the training host using a chat function.
- Send the attendance record to [email protected]. USA Swimming staff will manually update the Club application. (Athletes will not receive a certificate and it will not be recorded on their individual accounts.)
Reminder: A virtual meeting with minor athletes is an electronic communication and the Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policy requirements apply:
- If you are meeting with only one athlete, that athlete’s guardian/parent must also be included.
- If you are meeting with multiple athletes, another adult must also be included.
- The meeting must be held between the hours of 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Troubleshooting for Required Training:
- How parents can link their child’s account to a parent account and then create a login for my child
- Clubs can run reports on who has completed the training online at their own pace. Review the link on how to run those reports: Reports for Online Education.
- If your parents are saying they took the course but they are not showing up on the roster, it is likely that the parent is not connected to their athlete in the system. In that case the club should email the parents and their athlete’s name to [email protected] and they will get the accounts connected.
- For Zoom training participation: If the club wants a roster of who completed zoom training for their club, they would email [email protected] and they will send them a report.
