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The Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act of 2017 (the “SafeSport Act”) was signed into law on February 14, 2018. NSS developed its Risk Management Policy to meet the national requirements set forth by this Public Law as well as U.S. Soccer Policy.
NSS has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and misconduct. All participants in the soccer community must play an active role in creating an environment free from emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. The NSS Risk Management Policy was developed to help all participants detect and report abuse, respond to it and prevent future occurrences.
“Adult Athletes” (defined as “Adult Participants”) are athletes who are 18 years of age or older who have regular contact participating on teams with “Minor Athletes” (this includes, but is not limited to training, scrimmages, games, etc.). “Adult Athletes” must complete annual SafeSport training. There is no substitute for this requirement. SafeSport training will be the only accepted training module to fulfill this requirement for our 18-year-old players on youth teams.
More Information on Adult Athletes can be found here.
The U.S. Center for SafeSport offers Athlete training for all ages.
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