Safety & Safeguarding Trainings
Sep 15, 2026
Training helps build the knowledge and skills needed to create safe, positive sport environments. If annual training is required, consider selecting a different training topic each year to broaden your knowledge and strengthen your ability to support safe participation in sport.
Suggested learning pathway:
Start with a foundational Safe Sport course, then explore additional topics such as safeguarding, child and youth protection, physical safety, concussion, or mental health in subsequent years to continue building your knowledge and skills.
Safe Sport Trainings
Safe Sport training helps create respectful, inclusive, and positive sport environments by increasing awareness of maltreatment prevention, participant-centred practices, and the shared responsibility to keep sport safe.
Audience: All roles
Cost: Free
Time: 20-40 min
Description: Covers the foundations of safe participation, including physical, emotional, psychological, and cultural safety in sport.
Course link: PlaySafe Safe Participation eLearning
Audience: Coaches
Cost: $15
Time: 1 hour (60 minutes)
Description: Focuses on participant-centred coaching strategies that help create safe, positive, and inclusive sport experiences.
Course Link: NCCP Creating a Positive Sport Environment
Audience: All roles (coach-focused)
Cost: Free
Time: 90 minutes
Description: Helps participants recognize, prevent, and respond to maltreatment in sport
Course Link: CAC Safe Sport Training
Audience: All roles
Cost: Free
Time: Varies
Description: Available through National Sport Organizations.
Course Link: Sport Integrity Canada Safe Sport E-Learning
Audience: Coaches, instructors, activity leaders
Cost: Varies
Time: Approximately 2.5 hours
Description: Helps leaders recognize, prevent, and respond to bullying, abuse, harassment, and discrimination.
Course Link: Respect in Sport for Activity Leaders
Audience: Parents and guardians
Cost: Varies
Time: Approximately 60 mins
Description: Promotes positive behaviours and supports healthy sport experiences for children and youth.
Course Link: Respect in Sport for Parents
Audience:Officials and Referees
Cost: Varies
Time: Approximately 3 hours
Description: Provides tools to foster safe, respectful, and inclusive sport environments.
Course Link: Respect in Sport for Officials
Safeguarding Training
Safeguarding training helps people recognize, prevent, and respond to behaviours that may place participants at risk of harm, while supporting a culture of care, accountability, and wellbeing.
Audience: All roles
Cost: Many free options available
Time: Varies
Description: Wide range of safeguarding and child protection eLearning modules for sport organizations and participants.
Course Link: iProtect Courses
Child & Youth Protection Trainings
Child and youth protection training helps sport organizations create safer environments for children and youth by strengthening prevention practices, increasing awareness of risk factors, and supporting appropriate responses to concerns.
Audience: Coaches and staff
Cost: Free
Time: 23 mins
Description: Introduction to child abuse prevention and creating safer environments for children and youth in sport.
Course Link: Commit to Kids Awareness Video
Audience: Senior leaders and board members
Cost: $20
Time: 3 hours
Description: Comprehensive training focused on prevention, policies, screening, and organizational response
Course Link: Commit to Kids Full Course
Bystander Intervention Techniques
Audience: All roles
Cost: Free
Time: 20-40 min
Description: Five different intervention techniques to keep yourself and others safe, including practice scenarios
Course Link: Bystander Intervention in Sports
Physical Safety Trainings
Physical safety training helps participants prevent injuries, respond effectively to emergencies, and create safer sport environments for everyone involved.
Audience: All roles
Cost: Varies
Time: Varies
Description: Nationally recognized first aid and emergency response training.
Course Link: Canadian Red Cross
Audience: All roles
Cost: Varies
Time: Varies
Description: First aid, CPR, and emergency preparedness training.
Course Link: St. John’s Ambulance
Concussion
Concussion education helps participants recognize the signs and symptoms of concussion, support safe recovery, and understand return-to-sport best practices.
Audience: Athletes, parents, coaches, officials, practitioners
Cost: Free
Time: Varies
Description: Concussion awareness, prevention, recognition, and recovery resources tailored to different audiences.
Course Link: CATT Online eLearning Modules
Audience: Coaches
Cost: Free
Time: Approximately 1 hour
Description: Focuses on concussion prevention, recognition, and return-to-sport protocols.
Course Link: NCCP Making Head Way in Sport
Mental Health
Mental health training builds awareness, reduces stigma, and equips sport leaders with practical tools to support participant wellbeing and recognize when additional support may be needed.
Audience: Coaches and Sprot Leaders
Cost: Free
Time: Varies
Description: Resources and learning opportunities focused on supporting mental health in sport.
Course Link: Mental Health in Sport (CAC)
Audience: All roles
Cost: Varies
Time: Varies
Description: Provides practical skills to support people experiencing stress, adversity, loss, or crisis.
Course Link: Psychological First Aid
