Safety & Response Policy

2025 USA Gymnastics Safety & Response Policy (effective January 1, 2025)

USA Gymnastics Safety & Response Protocol for Sanctioned and Premier Events

Archived Policies

• 2019 USA Gymnastics Safe Sport Policy (valid until October 31, 2021)
• 2021 USA Gymnastics Safe Sport Policy (took effect November 1, 2021, valid until January 1, 2025)

• Power and Control Spiral
• Understanding Emotional Misconduct
• Understanding Physical Misconduct
• Understanding Retaliation
• One-on-One Interactions
• Travel
• Locker Rooms and Changing Areas
• USA Gymnastics Safety & Response Event Mandate
• USA Gymnastics Safe Sport Policy scripts for announcers at sanctioned events
• U.S. Center for SafeSport 2025 MAAPP

• Close-In-Age Exception: Adult Participant & Minor Athlete
• Dual Relationship
• Minor Athlete General Consent Form
• One-On-One Travel Between Adult Participant and Minor Athlete/Club Level
  • Club Indemnification Form
  • Travel Plan for One-On-One Travel
• Social Media Content Created On Behalf of Minor Athlete

• USA Gymnastics Response and Resolution Procedures (PDF)
• Resolution Panel Procedures (PDF)

• Webinars
  • Writing Effective Club Policies: Watch | PDF
  • Coaching Athletes with Hidden Disabilities: Watch | PDF
  • Creating Healthy Boundaries with Athletes (updated): Watch | PDF
  • Tough Coaching or Emotional Abuse: Knowing When the Line has Been Crossed (updated): Watch | PDF
  • Managing Bullying Between Athletes: Watch | PDF
  • Access to Practice: Watch | PDF
  • Virtual Waiting Rooms: Connection When It Counts: Watch
  • Recognizing the Symptoms of Sexual Trauma in Youth and How to Appropriately Respond to these Disclosures – w/ Laura Sinko, PhD, Robin Ortiz, MD, and Kyle Litton, Our Wave: Watch
  • Understanding and Coaching Generation Z: Watch | PDF
  • Parent’s Guide to Understanding USA Gymnastics Safety & Response
  • Drawing the Line: What Counts as Abusive Coaching – In Partnership with Positive Coaching Alliance
  • Building A USA Gymnastics Safe Culture From Within
  • Communicating With Athletes: Why They Misunderstand Your Words
  • Coaching Body Positivity: Why It Is Necessary
  • Training Performance = Training the Mind
• PowerPoint presentations from the 2021 National Congress in St. Louis
  • Coaching with a USA Gymnastics Safety & Response Mindset
  • Understanding the New USA Gymnastics Safe Sport Policy
  • Building a USA Gymnastics Safe Culture from Within
  • Why they misunderstand your words