Active, Healthy Living: Abuse Prevention

You Can Make a Difference - A Guide to Preventing and Responding to Abuse and Harassment in Sport and Recreation.

Abuse and harassment occur everywhere in our community - sport and recreation are no exceptions. This is a reality about which we can, and must take action.

As a result, many sporting communities across Canada are looking for way to eliminate the abuse and harassment of children in sport and recreation. Responding to the realit and, at the same time recognizing an opportunity to turn good intentions into action, Sport Nova Scotia and the Nova Scotia Office of Health Promotion, Sport and Recreation formed a predominantly volunteer-based Abuse and Harassment Committee. This committee was divided into two sub-committees, one concerned with policy and procedures and the other with education and delivery.

To ensure access to the best information available on abuse and harassment, the policy and procedures committee conducted an exhaustive review of materials prepared by various groups and experts across North America. Advice was also sought from the community, as needed. The aim was to develop measures to prevent abuse from happening in sport and recreation and, when that was not possible, to design a process to respond to the problem and prevent it from happening again.

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