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Medfield Youth Basketball Association

Safekids Program

Safekids Program for Medfield Youth Basketball Association (“MYBA”)

The following guidelines constitute the policies of MYBA with regard to awareness and prevention of abuse within our organization.

  • MYBA is committed to provide a safe environment and prevent child abuse and sexual misconduct.
  • MYBA will make every reasonable effort to ensure that each individual involved in coaching/training/managing a sport activity in our organization will abide by the Safekids guidelines.
  • MYBA will perform a criminal background check on every adult responsible for supervising registered participants in our programs and will exclude any adult with a legally documented history of child abuse/molestation or any other conviction or record that would bring unnecessary risk to health and safety of the participants of this organization.
  • MYBA will take appropriate action on all allegations of child abuse and or sexual misconduct. All allegations will be reported immediately to the authorities for investigation and we will cooperate fully with any such investigation.
  • All MYBA coaches MUST complete an Abuse Prevention training course provided by MYBA.

The following guidelines represent the preventive measures of our organization with regard to abuse:

  • Physical, mental, and verbal abuse of any of the participants, coaches, managers, volunteers involved in our sponsored activities is not permitted.
  • Inappropriate touching of any kind is forbidden.
  • MYBA will strive to provide more than one adult supervising every activity whenever possible.
  • Coaches/volunteers should not ride alone with a non-related child or participant in the car. In the event a participant is stranded at an activity, the supervising adults will attempt to contact the participant’s parents and make the necessary arrangements to find a ride home for the participant.
  • Parents are encouraged to attend sponsored activities.
  • It is the intent of MYBA to deny a position to anyone convicted of a crime of violence or a crime against another person.
  • MYBA has also implemented the Safe Sport program for abuse prevention and reporting.