USA Swimming Safe Sport
Wilton Y Wahoo Swimming strives to make your swimmer’s safety and protection our highest priority. By working together as coaches, swimmers, parents, and volunteers we can ensure all USA swimming members are supported in a safe and encouraging environment both in and out of the pool.
WYW & CT Swimming Safe Sport Liaison- Bruce VanVelzor, [email protected]
SafeSport Parent and Athlete Trainings!
The Wilton Y Wahoos are beginning the process of renewing our SafeSport Certification with USA Swimming. The USA Swimming Safe Sport Club Recognition program allows a USA Swimming member club like The Wahoos to demonstrate its commitment to creating a healthy and positive environment free from abuse for all its members through the development and implementation of club governance measures, Safe Sport policies and reporting mechanisms, Safe Sport best practices and training to athletes and parents.
Part of this process is having Wahoos parents, swimmers, coaches, and volunteers be properly certified and educated to help create the safest team environment possible. There are TWO WAYS that swimmers and parents can complete their SafeSport Training:
OPTION 1: ONLINE TRAININGS
Parents and Athletes also have the option to take the course online! Take it anytime at your own pace. See the links below for step-by-step instructions for parent and athlete online education access.
PARENT ON-YOUR-OWN TRAINING (Any parents!)
ATHLETE ON-YOUR-OWN TRAINING (13/Older Swimmers)
USA Swimming (719) 866-4578 Deal with a Safe Sport Concern.
U.S. Center for SafeSport 833-5US-SAFE (587-7233).
USA Swimming’s General website for more information
Wilton Y Wahoos Grievance Procedure
WYW’s MAAPP 2.0 ( updated 08/26/21)
Wilton Y Wahoos Minor Athlete Abuse Protection Policy adapted to protect our swimmers
MAAPP Signoff Form (updated 8/26/21)
This must be completed each year by Wilton Y Wahoo Swim Team Families
Swimmers Safe Sport Free Training for Minor Athletes
A Short video training for swimmers
Parent Safe Sport Free Training
Every parent should watch this short video training and download the certificate
Wilton Y Wahoos strives to create a safe and supporting environment. Click the link for our full policy.
WYW's Best Practice Guidelines
WYW's Photography Policy/consent form
Wilton Y Wahoos Photography and consent from for taking/not taking pictures (updated 6/24)
FORMS:
- Minor Travel Form
- Standard Travel form for minor athletes
- Room Share with Swimmer
- Minor sharing room with 18 over swimmer
- WYW’s Parent Code of Conduct
- Wilton Y Wahoos Parent code of conduct form (to be signed each year)
- WYW Swimmer Code of Conduct
- Wilton Y Wahoos Swimmer Code of conduct (to be signed each year by swimmers and parents) updated 9/23
- WYW Coaches Code of Conduct
- WYW’s coaching staff strives to hold ourselves to the highest standards. Follow the link to see our policy.
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3/26/20 USA SWIMMING LETTER TO COMMUNITY
6/24/19 UPDATE FROM CT SWIM:
The SURVEYS at the end of the APT modules are NOT optional, and members will not get credit for the courses until the surveys are completed. Instructions for completing APT modules can be found here.
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 7:19 AM ctswim McCurdy <[email protected]> wrote:
Team contacts,
This email is to inform you that your team’s athletes will soon be required to complete Athlete Protection Training prior to competition.
The Athlete Protection Training Requirement for Adult Athletes goes into effect on June 23, 2019, with a thirty day grace period.
Effectively, this means that eighteen year-olds on your team must complete the required training in order to compete in any of the following Long Course season meets:
The APT requirement for adult swimmers will be universally enforced at all sanctioned and approved meets going forward, so if your swimmers will not be attending any of the above meets, they should still complete the training in anticipation of the upcoming Short Course season. They may access the training here.
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New facelift of the USA Swimming Safe Sport Page - go to
www.usaswimming.org/HOME/safe-sport
Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policy (MAAPP)
www.usaswimming.org/utility/landing-pages/minor-athlete-abuse-prevention-policy
USA Swimming’s top priority continues to be keeping our athletes safe. No form of abuse, including child sexual abuse, has a place in our sport. As a part of our continued commitment to safeguarding our athletes, USA Swimming has enacted enhancements to our Safe Sport policy and education requirements.
The U.S. Center for SafeSport (“the Center”), the separate, independent, organization that oversees all sexual misconduct reports in the Olympic and Paralympic Movement created the Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policies to set a baseline for acceptable safety standards that limit one-on-one interactions between adults and minor athletes.
The Center urged all National Governing Bodies (NGBs) to add restrictions tailored to fit the sport. On April 29, 2019, USA Swimming released its Minor Athlete Protection Policy (MAAPP) addressing one-on-one interactions, social media and electronic communications, travel: local and team, locker rooms and changing areas and massages, rubdowns and athletic training modalities. All USA Swimming member clubs are required to implement MAAPP in full by June 23, 2019.
Please read the policies found at the link above, along with the educational resources, to assist you in implementing MAAPP.
Training our members in abuse prevention and mandatory reporting is just as important as creating policies. USA Swimming is required to provide regular and consistent training for all adults who interact with and have direct contact with minor athletes, including adult athletes. Starting June 23, 2019, as a condition of membership, all athlete members ages 18 and over must complete Athlete Protection Training.
Reporting a Safe Sport issue click on this
Great information for Parents: RAISING AWARENESS REDUCING ABUSE IN YOUTH SPORTS
(Here is another great article for everyone)
www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/raising-awareness-reducing-the-risk-of-abuse-in-youth-sports/
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Parents Magazine picked up our abuse prevention tips infographic for a short blog promoting awareness this month – feel free to share!
Deck Changing Rules for CT Swimming
