United States Center for SafeSport


The United States Center for SafeSport is an American organization set up in 2017 under the auspices of the Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization of 2017. It aims to address the problem of child abuse in sport. One of the functions of the SafeSport initiative is to collate a central database of disciplinary cases across all sporting disciplines, something which is still in process as of 2019.
The SafeSport program has been criticized for being underfunded, and insufficiently independent from the United States Olympic Committee. Its first CEO, Shellie Pfohl, resigned in 2019, and USA Today has reported her as saying that the Center for SafeSport had been "inundated" with more than 1800 reports of sexual misconduct or abuse, and lacked the resources to deal with all the cases.
The Center provides education, training and outreach concerning bullying, harassment, hazing, physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and sexual misconduct within the United States Olympic & Paralympic organizations. Reporting, both online and by telephone, is key to its mission. The Centralized Disciplinary Database provides online access to published actions regarding individuals and their current status.
U.S senators Richard Blumenthal and Jerry Moran have proposed measures which would strengthen oversight and funding of the SafeSport program.

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