MAAPP Requirements for CVST Team Members and Parents
MAAPP Requirements for CVST Team Members and Parents (In Effect as of June 23, 2019)
Dear CVST Parent's & Prospective CVST Parents,
USA Swimming's and CVST's top priority continues to be keeping our athletes safe. No form of abuse, including child sexual abuse, has a place in our sport. As a part of our continued commitment to safeguarding our athletes, USA Swimming and all Member Clubs, like CVST, have enacted enhancements to our Safe Sport policy and education requirements.
The U.S. Center for SafeSport ("the Center"), the separate, independent, organization that oversees all sexual misconduct reports in the Olympic and Paralympic Movement created the Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policies to set a baseline for acceptable safety standards that limit one-on-one interactions between adults and minor athletes.
The Center urged all National Governing Bodies (NGBs) to add restrictions tailored to fit the sport. On April 29, 2019, USA Swimming released its Minor Athlete Protection Policy (MAAPP) addressing one-on-one interactions, social media and electronic communications, travel: local and team, locker rooms and changing areas and massages, rubdowns and athletic training modalities. All USA Swimming member clubs were required to implement MAAPP in full by June 23, 2019.
USA Swimming’s top priority continues to be creating healthy and positive environments free from abuse for all its members. As part of its commitment to safeguard athletes, USA Swimming has released an updated Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policy (MAAPP) applicable to all USA Swimming Adult Participants, Zones, Local Swimming Committees (LSCs) and member clubs. These required updates come from the U.S. Center for SafeSport (the “Center”). USA Swimming’s updated MAAPP document has been approved by the Center and is required to be fully implemented by USA Swimming, its Zones, LSCs and member clubs. USA Swimming has set a deadline for those organizations to implement the policy in full no later than September 1, 2021; all organizations are encouraged to implement the MAAPP prior to the September 1 deadline.
Please read the policy below along with the educational resources, to assist you in understanding MAAPP.
Training our members in abuse prevention and mandatory reporting is just as important as creating policies. USA Swimming and CVST are required to provide regular and consistent training for all adults who interact with and have direct contact with minor athletes, including adult athletes. Starting June 23, 2019, as a condition of membership, all athlete members ages 18 and over must complete Athlete Protection Training.
Also as part of MAAPP, parents must acknowledge that they have received, read and understood the Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policy and/or that the Policy has been explained to them or their family. They must further acknowledge and understand that agreeing to comply with the contents of this Policy is a condition of your membership with the Carrollwood Village Swim Team, (USA Swimming member club).
A copy of the CVST / MAAPP 2.0 Written Acknowledgement Form along with a copy of MAAPP can be downloaded
here
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All new CVST Parents as well as returning CVST Parents must sign and return the CVST / MAAPP Acknowledgement Form, to their Coach by September 1, 2021 or the end of their child's first week with the team in order to be in the water. We know this is a quick turnaround, however due to the importance of MAAPP 2.0 it needs to be done this way.
Thank you for your cooperation and you can get more information on MAAPP 2.0 at the CVST and MAAPP web page at CVST.org, or by visiting USA Swimming.org.
The CVST Coaching Staff & The CVST Board
A copy of the CVST / MAAPP Acknowledgement Form along with a copy of MAAPP can be downloaded here.
