1 · Map access
Name an owner and backup. Check how someone finds routine and urgent support, including eligibility, cost and availability. Ask about access barriers without collecting personal clinical histories.
Get involved · Organisations
Start with one practical improvement.
Help people find support, practise your response and act on access barriers. Our proposed pathway is being developed for independent review; you do not need a badge to begin improving.
A first improvement cycle
One barrier. One owner. A clear review date.
A working facilitation guide to adapt with athletes and qualified local advisers. It is not certification or a validated clinical intervention.
2 · Practise the response
Use fictional scenarios to test what happens when someone asks for help or the usual contact is unavailable. Have qualified advisers review the response and confidentiality limits.
3 · Remove one barrier
Choose a feasible change with athletes: clearer signposting, independent access or a reliable backup. Record the action, owner and evidence that it happened.
4 · Check what changed
Test whether the route works and ask who still cannot use it. Share what changed, what remains unresolved and when you will review it again.
Use redacted process evidence. Do not upload named therapy notes, medication records or private athlete disclosures.
Routed questions
The assessment adapts by size band — you only answer what applies at your scale.
Scaled evidence
A one-page practised protocol can satisfy at club level; federations show audited systems.
Banded fees
Pricing follows organisation size, published in advance. Nobody is priced out of doing right.
Clubs & academies
From 25 athletes to 1,000 — judged at your scale, not someone else’s
Community clubs, professional clubs and youth academies, from volunteer-run to fully staffed.
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The assessment routes by size band: a 25-athlete club answers questions about referral partnerships and volunteer briefings — never about multi-department accredited training programmes.
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Evidence expectations match your reality: a named welfare lead and a written one-page protocol can satisfy at community scale where a federation would need audited systems.
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Fees sit in the smallest bands. A village club pays village-club money; the pathway badges (Bronze → Gold) are designed as affordable, verified steps.
What we expect to see
A named person responsible for wellbeing, a real referral route to qualified help, staff and volunteers who know what to do on a bad day — documented simply, but genuinely practised.
Where to start
Start with the free assessment; most clubs target a Bronze or Silver pathway badge in their first year.
National & international federations
You set standards for others — this one is yours to meet first
National governing bodies and international federations responsible for member organisations and licensed athletes.
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Governance depth increases: board-level accountability, adequate resources and delivery capacity, published policy and athlete voice are assessed in practice, not by declaration.
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Your reach multiplies the impact — and the scrutiny: requirements cover how you cascade standards to member clubs, not just your own headquarters.
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Diamond certification is the highest assurance ambition where scope and readiness justify it. Bronze, Silver and Gold remain meaningful verified improvement stages—not certification.
What we expect to see
Documented, audited systems: incident logs and reviews, formal crisis protocols rehearsed across departments, accountable governance structures with published terms of reference.
Where to start
Take the free assessment as a governance diagnostic, then talk to us about a Diamond track and member-cascade programmes.
Olympic & Paralympic committees
The most visible athletes, the highest bar
National Olympic and Paralympic committees preparing delegations for the most exposed competitions in sport.
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Requirements assume elite exposure: media-pressure protocols, Games-time support provision, and post-Games transition support are all in scope.
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Multi-disciplinary provision is the norm at your level — the standard tests integration across every squad and programme, not the existence of a single psychologist.
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Any public claim from a national committee has system-wide influence, so scope and assurance must be explicit. Diamond is the certification ambition; pathway stages remain valid evidence of progress while systems mature.
What we expect to see
Embedded multi-disciplinary support across all programmes, independently audited crisis protocols, published welfare reporting, and transition programmes that outlast the Games cycle.
Where to start
Speak to us directly — committee reviews are scoped individually before any application opens.
High-performance centres
Where the pressure concentrates, the safeguards must too
National training centres, institutes of sport and residential performance environments — including minors living away from home.
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Daily-environment culture weighs heaviest: workload-wellbeing balance, safe reporting channels and climate assessment matter more here than anywhere else.
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Residential duty of care raises the bar: safeguarding infrastructure, confidential access without coaching-staff knowledge, and out-of-hours crisis readiness are assessed in depth.
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Because athletes live inside your environment, athlete-experience evidence (at higher assurance levels) carries particular weight against written policy.
What we expect to see
Confidential support access independent of selection decisions, rehearsed 24/7 crisis response, documented safeguarding with trained designated officers, and honest climate measurement.
Where to start
Start with the free assessment; centres typically target Gold or Diamond given their duty-of-care profile.
The founding cohort
Whatever your scale, the first step is the same ten minutes.
The free assessment shows your indicative tier across the five pillars — private, non-binding, and routed to your size. First movers keep a permanent founding marker on their registry entry.