SafeSports – Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse ...

1 SafeSports Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse & Safe Sport Authorization Act What is SafeSports ? You were sent the 7/2/18 Team Manager Series - SafeSports Training & Certifications email blast providing a general description. Club Policy FYSA Policy Statement On Sexual Harassment, Abuse , And Molestation of Participants & Non-Participants. What do you need to do from your end? You will need to take an online course, pass the test and submit a copy of your course certificate .. all before you can placed on your roster(s) and/or interact with the players. The course is free. If you are very focused (during a time of no texts, emails or family interruptions), you can complete the whole course in about 90 minutes. The good news is that there are 3 modules in the course and you can take each module separately saving your work .. so you can take it in multiple sittings to better fit your schedule.

2 A key point of this federal law .. it makes any adult interacting with amateur athletes in the program have a duty to report Abuse and or suspected Abuse within a 24 hour period. EVERY ADULT is a mandatory reporter. The online course will help you understand what your responsibilities are in this law. ALL coaches, team managers, board members, staff and all other volunteers will need to take this course and obtain their certificate. Directions below. How do I take the SafeSports course? To make this go as smoothly for you as possible, here are specific and step-by-step directions with screenshote to complete your course and provide a copy of your final completion certificate. DIRECTIONS. To start, see the email you were sent that includes the SafeSports link & access code. Then follow the directions below. That takes you to this page so you can set up your account.

3 Fill in the fields below and hit Next. Make sure the email address you use is the SAME one in your Cot Soccer Coach or Team manager account. Once you set up your account, you will receive an email so you can confirm your email address. Go to your email and confirm. Once you have done that, go back to the SafeSport sign-in page and input your email & password and click Sign In. Before you go on, determine whether you have the time to complete all 3 modules in this one sitting (about 90 minutes) or whether you want to do one module at a time. If it is the later, after you complete one module, you can sign out and sign back in another time to go on to the next module. Once signed in you will see your SafeSports Dashboard and the 3 modules you will be taking: 1) Mandatory Reporting: Understanding Your Responsibilities; 2) Sexual Misconduct Awareness Education; and 3) Emotional and Physical Misconduct.

4 To start the process, click on Mandatory Report; Understand Your Responsibilities module. After completing that 1st module you will receive a certificate and then it comes back to your SafeSports Dashboard. Then click on to the 2nd module and then the 3rd module. While in each module, it will take you page by page. Follow the directions on each page and then hit Next . At the beginning of each module, you will take a pre-test. Then follow each page of the module to learn and then, at the end of that module, successfully take another test. If you miss an answer, you will be given an opportunity to review your information and re- answer it until you answer all questions correctly. Once you complete all 3 modules, your dashboard will show you a Certificate button with each module. Ignore those. The one you want is the SafeSport Trained Certificate button at the bottom (see red circle below).

5 Click on that one and download/save your certificate with the file name: Last Name _ First Name ( ). After you have downloaded/saved your SafeSport Trained certificate, follow the directions depending on your role (look for Coaches or Team Manager labels highlighted yellow below). Coaches 2 steps: 1. Sign into your Chargers Got Soccer Coach Account. For those that may have multiple coach accounts, the correct one is the one connected to Chargers SC and is showing the Background Check link in the menu bar across the top. If you don't see those things, you are in the wrong account. We can provide your username, to help identify the correct account. 2. Click on the My Profile in the menu bar and then on Secure Documents in the left margin. 3. On the Secure Documents page, click on the Upload Document for CNCSC Chargers Soccer Club link. 4. Then choose Other from the drop down for File Label.

6 Then in the File Description field input SafeSports Certificate . Then click on the Chose File button to find your certificate file on your computer and then hit the Upload File button. 5. Then also email a copy of that same certificate file to That way if FYSA has difficulty finding your certificate, we will have a copy of it as well. 6. That is it! You are done. Team Mangers: Just one step: email a copy of your certificate file to Got Soccer does not have a Secure Documents tab in Team Manager accounts, so emailing it to us will help us get FYSA to update your account as complete with Safe Sports. Any questions please feel free to reach out to Angela Church, Comp Registrar for FYSA things or Kathleen Shelton, Business Director Thanks!