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Sports Protection Policy

Three Rivers Adaptive Sports (TRAS) has adopted the following Sport Protection policies as they relate specifically to TRAS-controlled activities and events, and facilities under TRAS’s jurisdiction (to mean facilities owned and controlled by TRAS.

Engaging in sport should be an opportunity for all athletes to have fun and spend time with friends. Sport also encourages a healthy lifestyle, and builds self-confidence. Athletes often do better off the field than those who do not participate in sport. They learn goal-setting, teamwork and time management skills. Athletes are less likely to use cigarettes, drugs and alcohol; they have higher graduation rates and are more likely to attend college.
Unfortunately, sport can also be a high-risk environment for misconduct, including athlete physical and sexual abuse.

All forms of misconduct are intolerable and in direct conflict with the ideals of Three Rivers Adaptive Sports.  Misconduct may damage an athlete’s psychological well-being; athletes who have been mistreated experience social embarrassment, emotional turmoil, psychological scars, loss of self-esteem and negative impacts on family, friends and the sport. Misconduct often hurts an athlete’s performance and may cause him or her to drop out of sport entirely.
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TRAS is committed to improving the development and safety of athletes and participants involved in the community we serve. TRAS publishes this Handbook as a resource to guide TRAS’s development, implementation and internal review of effective athlete safety and misconduct prevention strategies. 

ALL volunteers must confirm their review of this document.

Click Here for TRAS Sports Protection Policy Handbook

DSUSA Sport Protection Reporting

Three Rivers Adaptive Sports is a chapter of DSUSA. Therefore, we are complying with the DSUSA policy regarding abuse.
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"Cases involving sexual abuse and molestation 
must be reported to law enforcement authorities- notifying and making a report to Disabled Sports USA does not satisfy this obligation.
To report all forms of misconduct by Disabled Sports USA, please select" Report a DSUSA Violation.

"If you are a chapter that has had a report submitted to you about misconduct within your organization, please select" 
Notify DSUSA of a Chapter Violation"
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Three Rivers Adaptive Sports TRAS stands by the idea: 
"If I can do this, I can do anything."
Since  our start in 1989 we have supported the belief
that sports, recreation and physical fitness
are an integral and important part of everyone's life.