ATHLETICS NS IS COMMITTED TO PROVIDING A SAFE SPORT ENVIRONMENT
Athletics NS is committed to providing a safe sporting environment for all stakeholders, including athletes, coaches, officials and administrators. Athletics NS has created a new Safe Sport Policy. We encourage everyone to read it and ask us if you have any questions. We have also updated our Code of Conduct.
Quality sport experiences provide countless benefits, like boosting physical and mental health, bringing people together to be part of a community, developing invaluable life skills, and much more. By maintaining secure and supportive sport environments, we can ensure that everyone enjoys the many advantages of participating. And we all have a role to play in making sport safer!
With the support of Sport Nova Scotia, provincial sport organizations across the province are working to ensure safer and more respectful environments for all participants. If you are experiencing or have witnessed maltreatment in our sport system, there is an accessible and confidential complaint process now available to you.
Individuals are able to make complaints of maltreatment as identified in the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport (UCCMS). This includes complaints of physical maltreatment, neglect, psychological maltreatment, sexual maltreatment, grooming, boundary transgressions and discrimination. Please be advised that administrative concerns (like coach assignments, player selections, or facility bookings for example) should continue to be directly communicated to Athletics Nova Scotia.
To learn more about making a safe sport complaint, visit Sport Nova Scotia (link coming soon).
***PLEASE NOTE: This email is for the sport of track and field and cross-country running only. If you are involved with another sport, please get in touch with that Provincial Sport Organization directly.
Safe Sport Training
Responsible Coaching Movement
- Athletics NS and Athletics Canada have both taken the responsible coaching movement pledge. The responsible coaching movement is a call for organizations to provide a safe sporting environment for all involved through the use of the rule of two, background screening and ethics training.
- Safe Sport Education for Youth
- Responsible Coaching Movement
- Rule of Two
- Rule of Two - Virtual Settings
