Six years after its creation, Sport’Aide is still unique in Canada. Thanks to a program recently implemented by the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), the Quebec organization could, however, become the model to follow in the implementation of good practices for healthy and safe sport.
In Quebec, we are ahead in terms of healthy and safe sport. It seems a little sycophantic to say that, but we are recognized elsewhere in Canada and abroad too
describes the general director of Sport’Aide, Sylvain Croteau.
Since Monday, his team has been meeting in Quebec with representatives of sports organizations from Nova Scotia and British Columbia. The idea is to present to them all the actions developed in recent years by theNPO québécois.
Online listening service, support for sports and leisure organizations, educational workshops delivered across the province and creation of educational content of all kinds, Sport’Aide continues to increase its offering. A comic strip featuring retired footballer Antony Auclair was launched on Monday.
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After Cindy Ouellet and Geneviève Jeanson, Antony Auclair is the third Quebec athlete whom Sport’Aide has made the hero of an educational comic strip.
Photo: Sport’Aide
Everything we have produced so far, we will be able to adapt it with them and it will be made available in their respective territories.
relates Sylvain Croteau about the two organizations passing through Quebec.
A sharing of expertise
The initiative set up by the COC and the Canadian government, at a cost of two million dollars, aims precisely to share knowledge and good practices between innovative players in healthy and safe sport in Canada.
Three of them were selected for the first phase of the project, namely Sport’Aide, Sport Nova Scotia and Via Sports BC.
It is not for lack of will that Canadian sport is not completely secure. It’s really just a lack of capacity and perhaps expertise too
explains the director of relations with sports and athletes at COCLizanne Murphy.
Our goal is to bring together a good working group to develop a model that other provinces can follow.
continues the one who is a former player of the national basketball team.
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Sylvain Croteau in a Radio-Canada studio
Photo : Radio-Canada / Catherine Paquette
People want to take care of their world
Among the three organizations selected in the country, Sport’Aide is the only one dedicated solely to healthy and safe sport. A situation that Sylvain Croteau hopes to see change.
The ideal would be for a Sport’Aide of this world to emerge almost everywhere in the different provinces and territories. We see that we are responding to a great demand. With the number of requests for support that we receive, I can attest that people want to take care of their people.
As for the slip-ups of coaches or spectators which have sometimes made headlines in Quebec in recent years, in amateur sport, the CEO of Sport’Aide recognizes that work remains to be done. However, he sees the glass half full.
The fact that more situations are being brought to our attention, I want to say that it is positive. It means that people recognize that there are things that are no longer acceptable. 10 or 15 years ago, we did not hear people denouncing the behavior of spectators and inappropriate behavior towards officials.
he points out.
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