Abuse Happens Everywhere: Tips to Mitigate Your Risk
April is National Youth Sports Safety Month, a cause that promotes the prevention of common youth sports injuries such as concussions, pulls, strains and other overuse conditions.
It’s equally important to keep our players safe by preventing physical, emotional and sexual abuse.
How? Here are 2 good places to start:
Make Sure Your Club’s Technology Enforces SafeSport Compliance.
U.S. SafeSport Policy requires that parents and guardians be included or copied on all messages and emails between youth athletes and adult coaches/staff, even if the athlete initiated the communication using a personal account. Does your club’s App enforce this policy?
On the Sprocket Sports App, parents and guardians are automatically cc’d on any communication between club coaches/staff and youth athletes who are minors. This applies to all communications on shared family accounts as well as to individual player accounts which can be set up on the Sprocket App for all youth athletes who are 13 years and older.
Contact Sprocket Sports today to learn more about the Sprocket App!
Watch “Athlete Safety 101: Blueprint for Safer Sports Communities” from the Aspen Institute’s Project Play Summit 2025 below.
Don’t miss this highly relevant panel discussion that Sprocket attended at last week’s Project Play Summit and explore the essentials of athlete safety including policy development, education, training, compliance, and incident response, and learn actionable strategies to prioritize athlete well-being and establish a culture of safety.
