From its inception, #WeRideTogether has been agency about the truth that safeguarding sports activities is everybody’s duty. Now, a free on-line course helps to convey the group’s message to a world equestrian viewers.
In partnership with the FEI, #WeRideTogether has created an internet safeguarding coaching course designed to debate finest practices, empower members with free sources, and clarify why maintaining sports activities protected isn’t simply the duty of coaches and athletes, however each member of the athletic neighborhood.
“All of us have a job to play in making sports activities safer and more healthy for athletes, and #WeRideTogether applauds the FEI’s dedication to protected, wholesome equestrian sport,” says Michaela Callie, Govt Director of #WeRideTogether and co-author of the course.
Free and obtainable via the FEI Campus, the course targets all members of the equestrian neighborhood, from athletes, coaches, mother and father, and grooms to officers, directors, and volunteers. It takes roughly 90-minutes to finish and is presently obtainable in English, although it will likely be translated into different languages all through 2025.
That includes #WeRideTogether’s award-winning PSAs and academic graphics, the course contains brief quizzes on the finish of every part to interact viewers and domesticate studying and consciousness.
The aim? Understanding how we will all defend and empower ourselves and our athletic communities by studying to acknowledge misconduct and abuse in sport, and comprehending how and why it happens. The course additionally contains guides for protected, energetic bystander intervention, in addition to how and the place to answer stories of abuse and misconduct.
That’s vital, as a result of the numbers don’t lie.
Abuse can occur to anybody, any time. Greater than 50% of athletes will expertise abuse in sports activities at a while of their athletic careers and 90% of victims know their abusers—one thing that makes prevention schooling much more vital.
With this new partnership, #WeRideTogether takes a big step ahead in its mission to convey prevention instruments and consciousness in equestrian sports activities to a wider stage.
Since 1921, the FEI has been the only, worldwide governing physique for the Olympic disciplines and past (assume: dressage and para-dressage, leaping, eventing, driving and para-driving, endurance, vaulting, reining and para-equestrian). Not solely does the group set up rules and approve packages for equestrian competitions on the regional degree as much as Olympic championships, it really works to safeguard the welfare of horses and defend the integrity of equestrian sports activities, as an entire.
That final little bit of the mission is one thing that the FEI and #WeRideTogether have in widespread.
Says Callie, “As an Worldwide Federation, the FEI is taking the initiative to proactively empower and inform equestrian communities world wide with safeguarding schooling, which promotes sustainable sport.”
Study extra and take WRT’s free “Safeguarding: Defending Individuals in Equestrian Sport towards Harassment and Abuse” course on FEI Campus.
