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2024 WA Sport Awards | Nominations now open! |
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SportWest are excited to announce that nominations for the 2024 WA Sport Awards are now open! This is a wonderful opportunity to recognize and celebrate the outstanding achievements of athletes, coaches, and organisations within our community.
We encourage you to submit nominations for those who have made significant contributions to sports in Western Australia. Whether it’s an athlete who has excelled in their discipline or a coach who has inspired their team, every nomination helps to highlight the incredible talent and dedication within our sporting community.
Winners will be announced at the WA Sport Awards, at Optus Stadium on Thursday 6 February, 2025.
Nominations close on at 11:59pm on Sunday 1 December, 2024, and can be made via the SportWest website. If you have any enquiries, please contact SportWest's Event Manager, Hannah Lawton via email at events@sportwest.com.au
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National Sport Strategy 2024 – 2034 | Sport Horizon |
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The decade of major sporting events leading up to, and including the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, creates a window of opportunity to reimagine Australian sport and bring about unprecedented cooperation and alignment of the sport sector. Working together we will harness the power of sport for healthy, active and connected communities, to create positive, meaningful change.
Sport Horizon is Australia’s new national sport strategy. It sets the direction and aspiration for the Commonwealth, state and territory governments, communities, and sporting organisations to create thriving systems.
Sport Horizon will ensure more people play and enjoy sport in safer environments. It will create world-leading pathways for our most talented people, better support weekend warriors and the volunteers who turn events into celebrations.
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Identifying and Addressing Inappropriate Behaviour
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Join Sport Integrity Australia for their upcoming Webinar on Identifying and Addressing Inappropriate Behaviour. During the Webinar you will learn how to; identify and address inappropriate behaviour, recognise the importance of Codes of Conduct and other relevant policies, know how to engage participants to establish acceptable behaviours in your sport, understand why poorly planned activities may contribute to inappropriate behaviour, and understand why creating a culture that embraces reporting will benefit your sport.
The Webinar is taking place on Thursday 7 November, 2024 from 9:30AM - 10:30AM.
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New Course to Tackle Racism in Community Sport |
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The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) has partnered with Reflect Forward to launch a free online course to help community coaches, umpires, participants and volunteers deal with incidents of racism in the moment they occur.
The course guides participants through scenarios and techniques in how to play the role of a first responder and intervening in the first 60 seconds that an incident occurs.
It also provides tips for clubs about how to create a safe environment for participants and to continue to support victims of racism on an ongoing basis.
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Understanding the costs of Sport |
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The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) is working with researchers from Federation University to better understand the costs involved in delivering and playing community sport.
The ASC invites you to participate in a short online survey to understand the costs involved in delivering your sport.
The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete and closes at 5pm Tuesday 31 December 2024.
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Children's Week | Meet our Voices of Children and Young People Advisory Group |
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Every year for Children's Week, we celebrate a Children's Right from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This year, WA will highlight the national theme taken from Article 24 - 'Children have the right to a clean and safe environment.'
As today marks the first day of WA Children's Week, running 18-27 October, SportWest are excited to announce our inaugural Voices of Children and Young People Advisory Group members.
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Child Safeguarding Initiative | eSafety in Sport Webinar |
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In support of Children's Week WA 2024, SportWest invites you to join us in supporting the week and its purpose by tuning into our upcoming Webinar focused on eSafety in Sport.
Co-facilitated by SportWest and the eSafety Commissioner, and proudly supported by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, this session will provide a practical education session, delving into online safety risks such as assistance with removing harmful content (eg. cyberbullying of children, sharing of images or videos without consent and reporting online harm). The webinar will also cover utilising the True Sport and eSafety resources to promote a safer online environment and minimise the chances for children and young people to be harmed.
In alignment with the 10 National Principles for Child Safe Organisations, this webinar aligns primarily with the True Sport Child Safeguarding National Principle 8 resource - Physical and online environments promote safety and wellbeing while minimising the opportunity for children and young people to be harmed.
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Mental Health Month | Spotlight Series |
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For our second Sport Spotlight Series for Mental Health Month we have Football West. In October, Football West will conclude its 2024 Kick Off the Conversation program, with winning clubs announced on 24th October.
Before the program wrapped up, they also hosted a free webinar on 2nd October, presented by Richmond Wellbeing. This session, titled 'Online De-escalation Skills and Trauma,' aimed to equip club members with the skills to recognise and respond to signs of distress or trauma, fostering a safe and supportive environment within the football community.
The Kick off the Conversation program promotes mental health and wellbeing within the football community and is supported by our partner, Healthway. "We are pleased to see the interest and engagement level of our clubs with the Kick off the Conversation program. It highlights how committed our football community is to fostering open discussions around mental health and wellbeing. By participating in this initiative, clubs, coaches and volunteers are helping to create a supportive environment, ensuring that mental health is prioritised both on and off the pitch." - Monica Naves, Partnerships Manager - Football West.
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