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What is Safe Sport?
Safe Sport is an environment where individuals can have a healthy, supportive, and respectful sport experience, free from all forms of harassment and abuse.
What will you find on this page?
This page is a comprehensive set of tools, templates, and resources designed to elevate good governance. It also delivers on our promise to build on our collective vision of a more inclusive and welcoming sport community.
Sport Manitoba is excited to host a safe sport conference on May 10, 2025! Specifically focusing on hazing in sport, the conference is open to the public and is an opportunity for sport administrators, coaches, parents, athletes, officials, and volunteers from across all sports in Manitoba to learn from and engage with various professionals with knowledge in this field. The conference will include presentations, interactive activities, networking opportunities, and resources that will assist all stakeholders in understanding and preventing hazing practices in Manitoba’s sport system.
The first step toward creating a safer sport environment is equipping all sport communities with the knowledge of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour in sport. When we can recognize, we can react.
True Sport, Anti-Racism in Sport, Commit to Kids, and the Rainbow Resource Centre offer workshops and resources around setting the standard for a positive sport experience, including and welcoming marginalized communities, and steps you can take to support those experiencing maltreatment.
The seven True Sport Principles are the foundation of good sport. They must be present in the sport experience at all times, in the right balance and proportion, at all levels of competition, to foster a quality sport experience.
Learn MoreThe Anti-Racism in Sport Campaign is commited to address, disrupt, and eliminate racism and discrimination in sport.
Learn MoreThe Canadian Centre for Child Protection's resources for sports organizations, coaches, officials, sport leaders, volunteers, and parents to help keep kids safe in sport
Learn MoreThe Rainbow Resource Centre offers support to the 2SLGBTQ+ community in the form of counselling, education, and programming for individuals ranging from children through to 55±. It also supports families, friends, and employers of 2SLGBTQ+ individuals.
Learn MoreA guide for athletes on acceptable and unacceptable behaviour in their relationship with their coach
Read guideA guide for coaches on acceptable and unacceptable behaviour in their relationship with their athletes
READ GUIDESome basic information about understanding and identifying child sexual abuse from the Canadian Centre for Child Protection
Learn MoreThe Canadian Centre for Child Protection offers information about the ever-changing online interests of children, the potential risks they face, and proactive strategies to help keep your child/adolescent safe while online.
Learn MoreIf you'd like to create safe sport awareness at your PSO event, please fill out the form below to request either Sport Manitoba’s safe sport pop-up banners or safe sport booth. For more information, please connect with Brent Poplawski at Brent.Poplawski@sportmanitoba.ca.
Fill Out the FormSport organizations have a responsibility and obligation to protect the safety and physical and mental well-being of every individual involved in its community. Sport organizations need to take any situation involving misconduct or maltreatment very seriously.
Sport Manitoba believes in being proactive, ensuring sport in our province is welcoming to all participants. Respect in Sport helps us promote these values through a simple and convenient online training course for coaches and sport leaders.
Learn MoreKeep kids confident, developing skills, and enjoying their sport or physical activity. Learn how to recognize a quality sport program.
Learn MoreDownload and review Sport Manitoba's Safe Sport policies and templates so every sport organization can be equipped with the tools to welcome all athletes to their sport and keep those athletes safe.
Learn MoreThe RCM consists of three pillars: the Rule of Two, background screening, and ethics training for coaches. They also provide resources and processes to follow for sport to be safe, smart, and secure for all.
Learn MoreThe goal of the Rule of Two is to ensure all interactions and communications in sport are open, observable and justifiable. This online module will help increase the safety of all sport participants.
Click here to see a simplified graphic about the Rule of Two
Whether you are directly involved with athletes or play a role in the background, the Coaching Association of Canada Safe Sport Training will give you the tools to recognize, prevent, and address maltreatment in sport.
Learn MoreSport COnnect and REspect is FREE program available to help coaches and athletes create positive, interactive, respectful, and safe relationships in sport.
Learn MoreThe CAC Bystander Empowerment e-learning course includes effective strategies (Direct, Distract, or Delegate) for bystanders to apply in situations where they may be observing harm in sport.
Learn MoreRight to Be and ViaSport offer free online webinar training opportunities to equip individuals with five intervention strategies to use when they witness harmful behavior in the sports community.
Learn MoreIn Manitoba, it is everyone’s legal obligation to report suspected child abuse. If, in your honest judgment, you believe that a child may not be safe, you are legally required to report it.
Maltreatment vs Disputes
Please note the difference between maltreatment and a dispute. General disputes are not considered safe sport in nature.
Call our confidential help line at 1-833-656-SAFE (7233) if you're experiencing or witnessing any misconduct/maltreatment in sport, including bullying, harassment, hazing, or abuse. Sport participants have the right to experience a safe and welcoming sport environment.
Wish to submit a complaint?
Contact your Provincial Sport Organization
https://www.sportmanitoba.ca/partners/
General Disputes are not considered safe sport in nature. If sport participants who have a challenge or disagreement with a PSO’s policy application, decision-making, or unresolved issue can submit this matter to Sport Manitoba for review and assistance in settling the dispute.
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