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SAFE SPORT OVERVIEW

Overview
 

Canada Snowboard is committed to putting the highest priority on providing a healthy, safe, accessible and inclusive learning, training and competitive environment and experience for everyone in the Canada Snowboard Community. A place for everyone within our sport system (athletes, coaches, officials, volunteers, board members and administrators) to feel they belong, are valued, and can participate in our sport with no barriers to entry. A place where their voices are heard, they have the right to choice and consent and there are people like them throughout the snowboard community. We aim to make our Snowboard community a place where every individual can turn up as their own, whole, self to whatever environment they are working, training or competing in within our Snowboard network. 


The Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport (UCCMS)

 

The Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport (UCCMS) is is the core document that sets harmonized rules to be adopted by sport organizations that receive funding from the Government of Canada to advance a respectful sport culture that delivers quality, inclusive, accessible, welcoming and safe sport experiences.

 

The UCCMS addresses:

⦁ common principles and a commitment to advance a respectful sport culture;

⦁ standard definitions of various forms of maltreatment, including grooming, neglect, and physical, sexual, and psychological maltreatment;

⦁ a list of other prohibited behavior such as retaliation, failure to report maltreatment, intentionally filing false allegations, misuse of power, etc.; and

⦁ a framework for determining appropriate sanctions against such prohibited behavior.

 

About the Canadian Safe Sport Program

 

As of April 1, 2025, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) will independently administer the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport (UCCMS) for federally funded national sport organizations through the CSSP. The CCES receives and responds to reports about individuals who may have engaged in prohibited behaviour under the UCCMS.  

The UCCMS commits the Canadian sport sector to advancing a respectful sport culture that delivers quality, inclusive, accessible, welcoming, and safe sport experiences. The CSSP is similarly committed to advancing this fundamental goal. 

The CCES is committed to providing a safe, timely, reliable, and procedurally fair environment for anyone involved in a report of maltreatment. Everyone connecting with the CCES team will be treated with respect, dignity, and compassion. 

The CCES welcomes and encourages feedback about the CSSP as it evolves to meet the needs of the national sport community.  

If you have any questions about this toolkit or the CSSP, please email fnsrfcbeg@pprf.pn.

 

Canadian Safe Sport Program

 

Canada Snowboard has adopted the Canadian Safe Sport Program (CSSP), which is in effect as of April 1, 2025. 

Through the CSSP Rules, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) independently administers the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport (UCCMS) for federally funded, national-level sport organizations by receiving and responding to reports of prohibited behaviour, and by developing and carrying out education, prevention, and policy activities. 

The CSSP Rules clearly and publicly set out how that will be done, including defined timelines at each stage of the reporting process. The CSSP also offers support services to connect participants with help along the way. 

For more information about the CSSP and the UCCMS, click here. 

As such, complaints regarding alleged violations to the UCCMS by all National Team Athletes, Coaches, Staff, Board of Directors and Committee Members should be reported via the CCES reporting page.

 

SHRED SAFE Framework Topics
 

The following four pillars cover the broad topics which come under the Canada Snowboard Safe Sport Framework to create safe and inclusive environments and have to be looked at through an overarching lens of how these key topics interact to build an overall healthy, safe, accessible and inclusive Snowboarding environment for all. We are committed to together being proactive in recognizing, educating and transforming our policies, procedures, best practices and overall environments in which we work, train and compete to be proactive in the creation of safe and inclusive environments for all.

SHRED SAFE Framework Foundations
 

The Canada Snowboard Shred Safe Framework is designed to provide safety and support resources and services to the Canada Snowboard Community through three key elements of Awareness and Advocacy, Prevention and Reporting and Resolution. All these elements are clearly supported by the strong governance, policies and procedures put in place by Canada Snowboard and implemented across the entire national Snowboard system to continue to improve our four SHRED SAFE framework topics.


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