Foster Inclusion & Belonging
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When coaches take a leadership role in the inclusion of all participants, it sets the tone and expectation for teammates, other athletes, parents and staff. Ensuring that everyone feels appreciated, valued, respected and supported for who they are is a vital part of helping your athletes reach their potential.
NEW - Hazing Prevention
Recognizing new members that join your team is a crucial step for team building. However, these rites-of-passage can turn into hazing if the activities involve exerting control over someone, or result in a person being humiliated, degraded, or abused.
Research indicates that coaches play a vital role in normalizing or preventing harmful practices among athletes. As a coach and leader, you are best positioned to help prevent hazing and create positive, healthy introductions for new players joining a team or organization.
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Creating a Culture of Belonging
Sport provides a platform where individuals from different groups can interact, build relationships and ultimately find a sense of belonging and community on and off the playing field. When sport leaders, including coaches, encourage and foster participation that is reflective of the communities that they live in, it helps to build a landscape where participants are treated equally and fairly and have access to sport in a manner that is relevant and appropriate to them.
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- NCCP Coaching Athletes with a Disability eLearning
- NCCP Aboriginal Coaching Module Workshop
- Canadian Women & Sport – Keeping Girls in Sport eLearning
- Sport for Life – Cultural Awareness in Youth Sport eLearning
- Gender-Based Violence in Sport eLearning (FREE)
- Modelling Healthy Relationships eLearning (FREE)
- Bystander Empowerment eLearning (FREE)
- Anti-racism in Coaching eLearning
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Using Inclusive Language
Using inclusive language with your athletes, their parents/guardians and within your sport environment is crucial in creating an environment when everyone feels accepted and that they have equal opportunity. When a coach leads by example by using inclusive language and terminology it sets the expectation among teammates and other athletes that each individual is accepted, appreciated, valued, respected and supported for who they are.
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- NCCP Coaching Athletes with a Disability eLearning
- NCCP Aboriginal Coaching Module Workshop
- Canadian Women & Sport – Keeping Girls in Sport eLearning
- Coaching Kids of All Abilities
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Inclusion Readiness
The first step to building an inclusive sport environment starts with an internal audit and reflection on your own practices as a coach. Use a checklist such as the downloadable one below to think about your own knowledge, training and the language that you regularly use. After your self-review, expand this thinking to include your club or sport organization.
Downloadable Resources
Advance Your Knowledge – Take the Training:
- NCCP Coaching Athletes with a Disability eLearning
- NCCP Aboriginal Coaching Module Workshop
- Canadian Women & Sport – Gender Equity Lens eLearning
- Canadian Women & Sport – Leading the Way: LGBTQI2S Inclusion in Sport Workshop
- Coaching Kids of All Abilities eLearning
- Sport for Life – Engaging Newcomers in Sport & Physical Activity eLearning
- Anti-racism in Coaching eLearning
- Mixed Ability Sport Coach Certification