Sport Integrity Canada’s online learning portal serves over 30,000 active users and issues over 45,000 certificates for completed courses and modules every year.
As awareness grows, reporting becomes easier and more accessible. This helps create safer sport environments and supports long-term efforts to prevent maltreatment. Over the coming year, the Canadian Safe Sport Program (CSSP) will develop new educational modules, including information about the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport (UCCMS), along with additional resources to help protect everyone involved in sport.
When a sport organization adopts the CSSP Rules, participants become subject to those rules. Participants must complete a course about the CSSP Rules and maltreatment. They must also sign a consent form stating that they understand that they’re subject to the rules.
It’s important for participants to understand:
- Their right to a safe sport environment under the UCCMS,
- Which behaviours are prohibited by the UCCMS,
- How to recognize prohibited behaviours,
- What to do if they witness prohibited behaviour,
- How to report prohibited behaviour,
- What their reporting responsibilities are, and are not,
- Procedures and processes under the incoming CSSP, andThe consequences for people who violate the rules.
Everyone who is subject to the CSSP Rules must complete Safe Sport.
Participants
Your sport organization will tell you if you are a participant. Generally, this list includes an organization’s:
- National- and international-level athletes
- Employees and board members
- National-level coaches and athlete support personnel
