Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport
CCES On-Line Education Takes Off Across the Country
The CCES Online Education program has been delivering anti-doping information to registered testing pool athletes for over a year now. This fall, the interactive course reached a huge new audience with the rollout to all college and university athletes. Since its launch in mid-August, the e-learning course has been completed and passed by 12,345 student-athletes across Canada in the official language of their choice, with many more completing the course on line in a group session.
Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) and the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association (CCAA) were enthusiastic about receiving the course in a format that reduces administrative overhead for their own staff and for athletic directors at each institution. CIS made the course mandatory as an eligibility requirement for its student-athletes, and has been able to easily keep track of progress toward this goal.
More courses are in development and planned for launch in 2008. These include: a new course for junior development athletes and graduating high-school athletes; a physical development and nutrition course dealing with body image for athletes at risk; a number of courses for coaches at various levels; with future plans to reach down further into the education system where the seeds of ethical sport attitudes are sown.
For a demonstration of the course, please contact onlinelearning@cces.ca.
Preparing for Vancouver 2010
With preparations for Vancouver 2010 well underway, the CCES and the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) held a DCO workshop in Ottawa this past August. A total of 19 new DCOs were certified bringing the total number of DCOs to 79 across Canada. A second workshop will take place this weekend, November 2 through 3, with approximately 20 more DCOs going through the training and certification process.
It is anticipated that the CCES will provide VANOC with a total of 100 DCOs to assist in the lead-up to the 2010 Games and the Games themselves.
Recruitment remains ongoing. The CCES has specific geographic requirements, therefore if you are interested in becoming a DCO with the CCES, please contact ndanschinko@cces.ca for further information.
True Sport
The mission of the CCES is “to foster ethical sport for all Canadians”. It is our firm belief therefore that increased participation in sport and the pursuit of excellence in sport should not be seen as strange bedfellows – both can and should be compatible, highly valued goals within the Canadian sport system. In fact, they must be seen as part of one integrated sport system in Canada that springs from the same set of shared values.
At the CCES our vision for a values-based sport system in Canada is one that helps to build and enrich communities by providing a safe, welcoming and rewarding environment for all participants at all levels of sport.
We believe that the key to this vision for fair and ethical sport, whether pursued in community pools, rinks and fields or on the world stage, is the shared values they both rest on. In fact the value of sport itself, to those who play and the communities that support them, also comes from our shared values. Canada’s ethics strategy, True Sport, is giving expression to our shared values of fairness, excellence, inclusion and fun. This is good sport and it is the kind of sport Canadians have told us they want. The CCES is a proud member of the True Sport Movement.
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