I’m coming away from the Annual Meeting feeling so much better about the direction we are headed with implementing SafeSport!
This past year started out terribly. The National Office implemented a difficult policy that was never clearly communicated.
It was unreasonably burdensome with little to no payoff in terms of athlete safety, and sucked up all of our time and energy that could have been put toward actually making athletes safer.
The communications consisted of unclear contradictory word salad which meant that everyone was confused and defensive and didn’t know how to make this work.
But! Hope is in the air!
Desiree is gone. Madeleine is here, she is a National Office staffer who is solely focused on SafeSport. She is a lawyer and is articulate and I am confident we will have clearer communications moving forward.
Our interim President Mike Conley created a SafeSport Advisory Committee, to collaborate with the National Office on the education and outreach side of SafeSport, and that has been a HUGE help.
I am going to make a separate post about the new volunteer waiver program that will be coming online soon, but I wanted to make a broad post to let people know that we are moving in a really positive direction.