Keeping Kids Safe in Sport 

The resources linked on this page were all created by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P), a national charity dedicated to the personal safety of all children. They are linked with permission of C3P and are intended for the audiences indicated and subject to the terms on the resource.

Readings

• Child Sexual Abuse: It Is Your Business
  The Child Sexual Abuse: It Is Your Business booklet includes information adults need to know about child sexual abuse, the disclosure process and key prevention tips.
• Trauma Education Video Series
  A video series to help youth and their family members understand and cope with experiences of trauma.
• Safe Sport Resource Sheets
  Information for coaches, sport leaders, and parents on the coach-athlete relationship, guidelines for interactions between adults and athletes, as well as how to report inappropriate behaviour and child sexual abuse.
• Commit to Kids Kit and Policies and Procedures Workbook
  A step-by-step program to help prevent sexual abuse from happening within child-serving organizations. The kit includes the Commit to Kids manual, sample code of conduct, sample policies and procedures, and a steps for reporting inappropriate conduct and steps for reporting child abuse card.
• Duty to Report
  Information about the legal to duty to report a child in need of protection, with specific information listed by province/territory (with information gleaned from provincial legislation and Child Protection Services websites).

Interactive

• Commit to Kids for Coaches: Foundational Information for Safeguarding Children from Sexual Abuse
  Designed for adults who work with children, this 23 minute video is intended to support protective adults by increasing their understanding of the issue of child sexual abuse, the disclosure of sexual abuse and supporting children through a disclosure. Coaches will receive one professional development point toward maintenance of certification as part of the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP).
• Commit to Kids for Coaches eLearning module
  This online training empowers coaches and sport leaders with practical information to help them enhance child and youth safety in sport. Upon completion of this training and a successful knowledge validation test, coaches will receive three NCCP professional development points towards the maintenance of certification.

Readings

• Commit to Kids – Parents Brochure
  The Commit to Kids Guide for Parents brochure is designed to educate parents about child sexual abuse, risks, and help them mobilize their communities to create safer environments for children.
• ProtectKidsOnline.ca
  A website with information for parents/guardians about the ever-changing online interests of young people, the potential risks they face and proactive strategies to help keep them safe while online.
• Safeguarding Children and Youth – Online Risks and Trends Video
  This video provides parents, caregivers, and other adults around children with information to build capacity to safeguard children and youth from online harms. Learn about online risks and strategies for helping to keep kids safe online.

Readings

• What's the Deal Activity Book (Grade 7/8)
  This activity book teaches youth in Grades 7 and 8 about healthy relationships and boundaries. Through various engaging activities, youth will be able to identify the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships, how to set personal boundaries, and how to get out of uncomfortable situations when those boundaries have been broken. Youth will learn how easy it is to lose control of information and photos shared online, and when to get help from a safe adult.
• It is a Big Deal Activity Book Grades 9-12
  This activity book teaches teens the difference between healthy and unhealthy dating relationships, including the issue of sexual consent. Through various activities, teens will learn about love vs. control in dating relationships, self-peer exploitation (“sexting”), Canada’s sexual consent laws, and how to get help if they find themselves in an uncomfortable situation. Building teen’s safety confidence and competence in this way reduces their vulnerability to victimization, and increases their personal safety.
• NeedHelpNow.ca
  NeedHelpNow.ca helps teens stop the spread of sexual pictures or videos and provides support along the way.

Interactive

• Healthy Relationships - Ages 12-14 (Video Series)
  Dr. Michael Salter, a criminologist from Australia, helps us understand healthy boundaries, consent, and what constitutes sexual abuse.
• Healthy Relationships - Ages 14-17 (Video Series)
  In these videos, Dr. Michael Salter, a criminologist from Australia, briefly explains boundaries, sexual consent, stereotypes, and healthy versus unhealthy behaviours in relationships.
• It is a Big Deal - Ages 14-17 (Video Series)
  Do you know what’s a big deal? These videos merge the It is a Big Deal Activity Book with important information from the Healthy Relationships video series to further walk us through relationships and boundaries, sexual consent, dealing with complicated situations, and getting help. 

Readings

• Big Feelings Come and Go Storybook
  This storybook teaches kids about freeze, flight, and fight, helps them learn some basic self-regulation skills, and allows for new conversations about how to help manage big feelings.
• My First Safety Book
  Safety Planning Information for Parents of Children Ages 4 - 7
• Billy and Basmah Bring a Buddy Along Storybook
  Billy and Basmah Bring a Buddy Along helps young children learn about the buddy system, the concept that there is safety in numbers. This important safety strategy can be used every day both offline and online.
• Billy Brings his Buddies Activity Book
  The Billy Brings his Buddies Activity Booklet is designed for Grade 1 students and helps teach children about the Buddy System.
• Zoe & Molly Online: Stuck in a Weird Spot (Grade 3)
  The Zoe and Molly Online: Stuck in a Weird Spot comic book helps children in Grade 3 understand that some online content can be inappropriate, and that it is okay to talk to a safe adult when exposed to harmful content.
• Zoe & Molly Online: When Online Games Get Weird (Grade 4)
  This comic book reinforces one of the 7 Root Safety Strategies, "If asked to share and your parents aren’t aware, say NO.” It was created to help teach children in grade 4 about risks associated with sharing personal information and sending pictures online.
• Safety Rocks Activity Book (Grades 3 and 4)
  Safety Rocks is an activity book for children in grades 3 and 4 to help them learn about ways to stay safe. The activities are designed to teach children that using safety habits everyday helps keep them safe.
• Be Smart, Strong, & Safe Activity Book (Grade 5/6)
  This activity book helps children in Grades 5 and 6 develop an understanding of how our feelings are connected to our actions; healthy and unhealthy behaviours; how to set boundaries; and how to talk to a safe adult when something makes them feel uncomfortable. When children learn about what behaviours are unhealthy, understand how to set boundaries, and can identify when someone has broken a boundary, it reduces their vulnerability to victimization, and increases their personal safety.

Interactive

• Video storybooks
  Designed for use with children in Kindergarten to Grade 4, these videos address safe vs unsafe secrets, instincts - identifying and responding to unsafe situations, and online safety.