ShareMemo Gender Diversity Training and Pre Chat
2018-09-19
Hello Parents, Players and Volunteers
I would like to thank all the volunteers from last season for your time and effort.
As the teams begin to form for the 2018/2019 season.
I would like to ask you to take a moment and check if your police record check PRC is still valid.
If your expiry date is before April 1st 2019 and you plan on volunteering, please renew as soon possible.
Ottawa Police may begin to charge for this service before the end of the year.
New for 2018 2019
All teams will be having Pre-season dressing room chats and
Discussing Anti-Discrimination Policies Related to Gender Identity and Gender Expression
Please see Letter below from Hockey Eastern Ontario and attachments.
Ron Lacroix
Director of Risk and Safety RMMHA
To: District Chairs, Minor Hockey Association Presidents
Cc: HEO Board, HEO Minor office
This is a friendly reminder about the correspondence which went out on August 1st regarding the required Pre-Season Chat for the Gender Identity and Expression settlement. Teams are required to have a pre-season chat and cover the topics on the checklist. (attached) This can be built into parent meetings that take place at the start of the season. Please share the policies, glossary of terms and checklists with all of your teams and ensure that they know what is required to be discussed during a pre-season meeting.
As part of the settlement with Ontario Human Rights, we are required to audit 26 MHA's by November 10th to ensure your teams are in compliance with the settlement and that they covered the items on the checklist and glossary of terms.We (HEO) must achieve 80% success rate of the audits during the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 season. If 80% success is not achieved the audit process will continue. In the next few days we will also be sending out a power point presentation which can be used as a tool in order to assist your teams in making sure they comply.
Sincerely,
Debbie Rambeau
Executive Director HEO
813 Shefford Rd Unit 201
Ottawa, ON K1J 8H9
613-224-7686 (office)
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