Lasso Safe Recertification

WELCOME AGAIN

Over the last 10 years, the leaders of Lasso Safe have sought to make the communities in which we train, compete, work, dream and triumph safer, higher performance and less damaging to our sport culture. When we started there was no defined safe sport center movement. There was no way to know if a center was truly high performance and no agreed upon guidelines to help those who wanted to lead safe centers. Lasso Safe created the Lasso Safe sport center program as a way to measure safe centers and to provide a roadmap for developing a truly high performance culture that prospers through equality and excellence. With Lasso Safe, we created a simple, metrics-based system to define what a safe center is. Lasso Safe created a baseline – a universally agreed upon holistic system of metrics for reducing emotional, physical and sexual abuse and promoting athlete safety, higher performance and expanded athletic careers. And the program was embraced by a collective group of leaders – sport psychologists, athletic champions, non-profits, sport medicine doctors, sport center owners and managers, local communities and business leaders. We have been researching sport centers in our communities since 2001, and today, Lasso Safe has advanced into the most widely used safe center program in the world and an international symbol of safe center leadership and sport culture excellence. People know that if they are in a Lasso Safe-certified center they are protected from bullying, nutritional deficit, sexual harassment or abuse, false accusations and over training, and that their commitment to athletic excellence will be honored in an eco-system that encourages positive body image, the athletes’ voice, high performance through collaborative strategizing, ethical business leadership and community relations while increasing economic prosperity. They also know that they are in a center that prioritizes mental and emotional wellness. As of July 2020, there are more than 350 sport centers researched, across 32 countries and territories, and more than 150 professional contributors from industries such as policy leadership, Olympic and professional athlete, psychotherapy, coaching, sport medicine, sport therapy and sport center ownership, spanning all divisions – from centers hosting multi-sport to Olympic training and competition to athlete-owned to youth and even entire complexes. And our community of Lasso Safe professionals is Championship strong. In the first decade of our existence, we have made Lasso Safe a living standard for safe sport centers. We’ve set in place the structure to help us get where we need to go. And now is the time to fully move towards the ongoing, performance-based certification and monitoring model we developed as Lasso Safe Recertify. 

RECERTIFICATION: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW 

Recertification encourages safety teams to monitor their performance data and to prove that their centers were performing as intended. It is not enough to demonstrate leadership at a point in time. We want all Lasso Safe centers to continue to demonstrate leadership long after their policies and procedures are introduced and enacted. With Lasso Safe Recertify, all Lasso Safe centers – past, present and future – can now recertify by providing 12 months of data and this recertification will be valid for 2 years. Recertification is available to all active and in-use centers that have previously achieved certification under Lasso Safe. We encourage all centers to raise the bar on themselves by reporting their performance data and recertifying their centers. This will allow them to fully quantify their investments and contributions in making the sport community a better place. Centers that achieve recertification will earn certification to the newest available version of Lasso Safe.