We’re excited to announce Joanna Maranhao,as part of the panel "How the safeguarding process can help or hinder healing and transformation in the immediate short & longer term" at our 2023 SSI Global Conference. Join us as we learn from them 18-20 September!
#SSI2023
@Jujuca1987
"I often hear comments about needing more victims to come forward and speak out. IS IT that we need victims to speak out? Or IS IT that we need a system that listens."
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@CharlieCW
#SSI2022
We’re excited to announce Dr Tine Vertomme as part of the Panel discussion "Safeguarding athletes from harassment and abuse: Where are we and how can we improve?" at our 2023 SSI Global Conference. Join us as we learn from them 18-20 September!
@TineVertommen
Safe Sport International fully supports the Spanish Women’s Football Team players. We call on FIFA, UEFA, and Member Associations across the World to take action and sanction the SFA.
Full statement:
Safe Sport International Re-launches FREE i-Protect Programme with Enhanced Features for Individuals, Clubs and Safeguarding Organisations
View the press release:
FREE registration:
“Abuse destroys talent, hopes, dreams, and lives. It took me a long time to find my voice and I still battle with it. Even speaking today brings back the voice that says ‘I’m not enough.’ But I am seeing the impact it can make.”
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@CharlieCW
#SSI2022
We’re excited to announce Clinical Professor, Dr. Margo Mountjoy MD, PhD as part of the Panel discussion "Safeguarding athletes from harassment and abuse: Where are we and how can we improve?" at our 2023 SSI Global Conference, “Hope, Healing, Transformation.”
@margomountjoy
We’re excited to announce Sylvie Parent PHD as part of the Panel discussion "Safeguarding athletes from harassment and abuse: Where are we and how can we improve?" at our 2023 SSI Global Conference, “Hope, Healing, Transformation.” Join us as we learn from them 18-20 September!
We’re excited to announce Kat Craig as part of the panel "Sharing best practice from a legal perspective - how to support clients going through abuse claim cases in a trauma informed way". Join us as we learn from them 18-20 September!
#SSI2023
@KatCraig1
@athlead_uk
Thank you to the global community for attending the Safe Sport International Global Conference! We had representatives from around the world, and global experts who gave some incredible presentations.
This community is really amazing. We can’t wait for next year!
#SSI2022
We’re excited to announce Sandi Kirby as part of the Panel discussion "Transforming sport for everyone through implementing inclusive safeguards for children, talent athletes, and adults" at our conference. Join us as we learn from them 18-20 September!
We’re delighted to announce Grace French, Founder & President of The Army of Survivors, as a presenter in the workshop "How to coach from a trauma informed lens: Compassionate coach, a curriculum designed by athletes and athlete survivors”.
#SSI2023
@gracewashere_
SSI is committed to ending all forms of inter-personal violence, abuse and harassment in sports environments globally.
Visit our new website today;
#SSI2023
#SAFESPORT
"Sports federations have to accept that it’s happening in their sport right now. It’s not something that MIGHT happen. IT IS happening."
- Glenn Joselowitz
#SSI2022
Dr. Edwin Moses addresses athletic activism and ethics…to not only encourage more athletes to challenge the status quo, but to pressure more organizations to actively join the fight.
Date: Wednesday April 6th 2022
Time: 7:00-8:00pm Eastern Time
Link:
Safeguarding in Sport Webinar Series
Two part webinar (in English) brought to you by Safe Sport International and the Safeguarding Unit at London law firm Farrer & Co.
On the 7th & 14th July between 3.00pm - 4.00pm BST (GMT+1).
#safesport
"More than anything else, as a survivor it’s coming to the realization that I can’t change what happened to me, but I can do my best to make the world safer for athletes that are coming tomorrow. So it’s worth the fight."
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@JVRuntoo
#SSI2022
Here is an important message from Elda Moreno
Head of the children’s Rights and Sports Values Department
Council of Europe about the International Safeguards for Children in Sport campaign.
#SafeInSport
#SaferSportDay
#BeAChampionForChildren
International Safeguards for Children in Sport Webinar Series!
We are delighted to invite you to the first of a series of continental webinars (in English), brought to you by the International Safeguards for Children in Sport Working Group. On 6th August 2020 11:00am - 12:00pm
Here is an important message from Dr Howard Taylor
Executive Director of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children about the International Safeguards for Children in Sport campaign.
#SafeInSport
#SaferSportDay
#BeAChampionForChildren
Thank you from
@SafesportInt
to everyone who made the 1st Global Summit to end violence in sport so inspirational
@deportegob
Committing to Madrid Declaration.The work to 2020 in Quebec 2020 starts now!
Closing remarks for the
#SSI2022
Global Conference “Safeguarding: Knowledge to Practice” presented by Bird & Bird Solicitors offered by Anne Tiivas OBE, SSI Chair
Dr Yetsa Tuakli-Wosomu, SSI Research Cmte
Stephanie Dixon PLY, SSI Athlete Voice Cmte
Willma King, SSI ETC Cmte
We’re excited to announce Charlie Webster as a keynote speaker at our 2022 SSI Global Conference, “Safeguarding: Knowledge to Practice.”
➡️Learn More:
➡️Register:
📢 SSI Safe Sport Global Conference - Starts 18th September 2023
🗓 2 Days
🗣 47 Speakers
👥 5 Sponsors
🌍 1 Global Networking Platform
🎫 If you haven't bought a conference ticket. There is still time :
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#news
#conference
#SSI2023
Safe Sport International & the Safeguarding Unit at London law firm Farrer & Co,are launching a 2 part webinar series in July. Exploring how academic research can inform good safeguarding practice and discussing what safeguarding lessons can be learnt from the Larry Nassar case.
We’re excited to announce Marcella Leonard as Panel Chair "Abuse through the use of technology" at our 2023 SSI Global Conference. Join us as we learn from them 18-20 September!
🗓 Learn More & Register
#SSI2023
@leonardconsult
We’re excited to announce Daniel Rhind as part of the Panel discussion "The Future of Safeguarding Research in Sport " at our 2023 SSI Safe Sport Global Conference, “Hope, Healing, Transformation.” Join us as we learn from them 18-20 September!
#SSI2023
SSI Safe Sport Global Conference Panel Announced : Tuesday 19th September
This session would be relevant to all conference attendees. A core message of this session will be safeguarding as a responsibility for all.
@margomountjoy
@TineVertommen
@universitelaval
We’re excited to announce Yetsa Tuakli-Wosornu MD MPH as part of the Panel discussion "The Future of Safeguarding Research in Sport " at our 2023 SSI Safe Sport Global Conference, “Hope, Healing, Transformation.” Join us as we learn from them 18-20 September!
#SSI2023
“Institutions turn victims into villains when they speak up and speak out. After my first interview, I started getting death threats. But instead of scaring me, it solidified my voice.”
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@JVRuntoo
#SSI2022
"We need to continue to make the shift from 'what's wrong with you' to 'what happened to you.'" - Julie Ann Rivers-Cochran from
@survivorsarmy
#SSI2023
Celebrate the importance of the “Athlete Voice” in the Safe Sport International annual conference with a Limited Edition t-shirt designed exclusively for SSI by Love Equals.
Purchase online 👕:
We’re excited to announce Mary Cain, CEO of Atlanta NYC, Track and Field, and Board Member for The Army of Survivors as a keynote speaker at our 2023 SSI Global Conference, “Hope, Healing, Transformation.” Join us as we learn from them 18-20 September!
#SSI2023
@runmarycain
It’s up to each of us to make sport a safe space for every child, everywhere. This
#SaferSportDay
,
make the International Safeguards for Children in Sport part of your game plan. Learn the 8 steps you can take to prevent abuse in sport here:
#SafeInSport
“We need to educate on what abuse in sport looks like and let athletes know that this is not okay; there is help. Abuse in sport is not as black and white as a majority of society thinks.”
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@CharlieCW
#SSI2022
We are delighted to invite you to the first of a series of continental webinars (in English), brought to you by the International Safeguards for Children in Sport Working Group.
On 6th August 2020 between 11:00am - 12:00pm BST (GMT+1)
We’re excited to announce Dr Lombe Mwambwa PhD, Executive Director, NOWSPAR Zambia as part of our 2022 SSI Global Conference, “Safeguarding: Knowledge to Practice.”
"Too often I see remedy processes exploiting survivors to legitimize a process when the institution really does not intend to listen to their voices."
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@KatCraig1
#SSI2022
It's here! Check out the new
@SafeinSports
WEBSITE. All you need to know about the Safeguards in one place: how-to guides & videos, membership info, and of course, how to take the pledge to keep children
#SafeinSport
. (We've taken the pledge – have you?)
“When you go up against an institution they are going to ostracize you. But there’s also the internal struggles that you have as a victim: the shame, the grief.”
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@JVRuntoo
#SSI2022
"No one person will be able to manage all the skills required for safeguarding. Safeguarding officers aren’t solely responsible for safeguarding in organizations, rather they are a focal point to encourage EVERYONE imbed safeguards into their practice."
@Kirsty_Burrows1
#SSI2022
"Policy doesn’t work unless people implement it with care. Sport is nothing without the people taking part and competing, and they deserve everything to be taken care of in the sport and in their lives outside of sport as well."
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@CharlieCW
#SSI2022
Anne Tiivas, Chair here at Safe Sport International would very much like to welcome you to their 3rd annual Global Virtual Conference this April.
- Register here: ...
“Start with those potentially have the most vulnerable identities to create safeguarding practices. Proactively design safeguarding so that it includes those in the margins FIRST because then it can be more universally applicable.”
Convo b/w
@YetsaTuakli
and
@AlliForsyth
#SSI2022
“We need a trauma informed approach with demonstrable & detailed understanding of what victims, survivors & whistleblowers go through, recognizing the challenges & removing the barriers to reporting or engaging with the process.”
@KatCraig1
Everyone at SSI is so proud of our founder and research committee member Kari Fasting's achievements and we congratulate her on receiving the IOC Women in Sport Award for Europe.
"I don’t work with footballers. I work with the person who happens to be the footballer… It’s putting the person first.” - Dr. Michael Bennett
#SSI2023
We’re excited to announce Pam Shriver, Pro Tennis as presenter of Organisational safeguarding through a trauma informed lens" at our SSI 2023 Safe Sport Global Conference, “Hope, Healing, Transformation.” Join us as we learn from them 18-20 September!
@PHShriver
#SSI2023
Oyé oyé! The detailed program is online! Register to be part of SSI 2020. More than 20 countries represented and prestigious organisations such as the IOC, FIFA, the COC, the International Ski Federation, the Council of Europe, the United Nations, etc.
Training opportunity....
March 5 & 6 the Asser Institute in collaboration with the Centre for Sport and Human Rights is hosting the second edition of an advanced professional training on 'Responding to human rights abuse in sport: safe, effective and appropriate investigation'.
"We need to make sure we have support systems within the reporting policies. Often times, we forget to consider all of the barriers to reporting including the safety of the athletes and the risk they are taking by reporting." -
@AndreaFlorence4
#SSI2022
NSPCC have joined forces with the British Athletes Commission to provide free, confidential support and guidance to anyone involved with gymnastics who has safeguarding concerns.
#NSPCC
#safeguardinginsport
#safesport
#gymnastics
We’re delighted to announce our 2023 SSI Global Conference, “Hope, Healing, Transformation”, is supported by the International Olympic Committee.
👉 Learn More :
🗓 Register :
#SSI2023
@iocmedia
"Knowledge isn’t power, applied knowledge IS. How do environments empower all sports actors to appropriately APPLY players’ rights in sport?"
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@YetsaTuakli
#SSI2022
🚀 Exciting News! Today marks a milestone as we unveil the SSI Strategic Plan 2024-2026 – our commitment to everyone, everywhere, safe in sport. 🌍 Join us on this inclusive and collaborative journey guided by athlete voices and informed by research. Explore the plan!
We're excited to launch the new Safe Sport International podcast today!
Join Anne Tiivas OBE (Founder and Chair of SSI) and Neal Anderson (Chief Operating Officer) as they introduce SSI, the work we do and who it benefits.
Subscribe via your favourite platform or link in bio.
We’re excited to announce Paul Oliver, Sport Integrity Australia as part of the panel "Emerging Practice at the National Level - reporting and responding to concerns", join us as we learn from them 18-20 September!
#training
#news
#conference
#SSI2023
@olipa
SSI Conference Day 2 of “Safeguarding: Knowledge to Practice” Opening remarks by Julie Ann Rivers-Cochran and Keynote by Charlie Webster featured in the documentary”Nowhere to Run”
#SSI2022
Faced with the current Covid-19 pandemic and the health concerns caused by it,Sport'Aide & Safe Sport International have decided that we had no option but to postpone the upcoming edition of the Safe Sport International (SSI 2020) conference scheduled for Quebec City this April.
Practical tips for safeguarding at board level.
This is one of the many areas covered in the two part webinar (in English) brought to you by Safe Sport International and the Safeguarding Unit at London law firm Farrer & Co, on 7th & 14th July 2020.
#safesport
#safeguardinginsport
On the 7th & 14th July between 3.00pm 4.00pm BST (GMT+1), Safe
Sport International and the Safeguarding Unit at London law firm Farrer & Co, launch two webinars, aimed at board members of national and international sports federations and executive teams.
"Only a small proportion (4-6%) chose to disclose to someone from the field of sport, which may lead to the conclusion that we need to work on a better disclosing process for athletes."
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@B_Rulofs
#SSI2022
We’re excited to announce Mathilde Grenet as presenter of “Organisational safeguarding through a trauma informed lens" at our 2023 SSI Global Conference, “Hope, Healing, Transformation.” Join us as we learn from them 18-20 September!
@mathlagrenet
“We need to engage with people are harmed. Ask ppl with lived experience what is it they want, if they want to be involved and let the person be in control of their involvement. Offer honest apologies. Then ask what is it we got wrong, and how do we make it right.” -
@Jujuca1987