International workshop on sports safety promotion in local communities
Posted: 18 May 2009
Safe Sports International will arrange a pre-conference ‘International workshop on sports safety promotion in local communities’ in association to the 18th International Conference on Safe Communities in Cali, Colombia 13-15 August 2009.
The workshop will be held 11 August 2009, 8.30-12.30 at Centro de Eventos Valle del Pacifico in Cali. Co-organizers will be the CISALVA Institute (Institute for Peace Promotion and Injury/ Violence Prevention), and Universidad del Valle.
Proposals for presentations and items for discussion can be sent by email to the workshop co-chair Toomas Timpka (toomas@safesportsinternational.org).
International workshop on sports safety promotion in local communities
Toomas Timpka and Leif Svanström
The rationale for the workshop is that international sports safety programs are yet to critically evaluate sports safety policies and injury prevention programs with regard to outcomes for a broad range of client groups, covering the spectrum of those who are socially disadvantaged to those from wealthy western countries. At the global level, it is particularly important that the estimated and factual effects of institutional sports safety interventions in the third world country context be considered. A central tenant is that young sportspersons have the right to health and well-being, to be achieved by a balance of sports industry needs and safety orientated scientific knowledge and evidence-based actions. The specific aim of the workshop is twofold: to support the establishment of the sports injury problem firmly on the global health policy agenda, and to introduce sports safety as a mandatory component in the establishment of sustainable local sports organizations.
The workshop will be highly interactive with tutorials combined with presentations from participants. The first section of the workshop will consist of an introduction to sports safety. There will be plenty of possibilities to discuss methodological and theoretical issues with importance for development and implementation of sports safety programs in local communities. The second section of the workshop will consist of presentations from the workshop participants. There will be room in the schedule for presentation of between 4-6 programs or sports safety issues. Each presentation will be followed by a panel review and plenary discussion. The workshop is concluded by a plenary session followed by a final discussion.
World Conference on Sports Injury Prevention
Posted: 2 September 2008
Safe Sports International was represented by Claude Goulet and Toomas Timpka at the World Conference of Sports Injury Prevention in Tromsö, Norway, June 28th - July 1st 2008. In addition to participation in the regular scientific program, SSI also conducted a workshop and contributed to an invited seminar on development of safety policies in sports
Pictures from Mexico
Posted: 20 March 2008
Safe Sports International will be represented at the 2nd World Conference on Sports Injury Prevention in Tromsö, Norway, June 26-28th 2008 by arranging a Workshop (Friday June 27th 14.00-15.00) and participation in the Seminar 'Influenzing government policy development for sports injury prevention' (Saturday June 28th 9.00-12.00).
Pictures from the 9th International Conference for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Safety 2008 in Merida, Mexico, March 15-18th 2008.
International Conference
Posted: 1 March 2008
SSI will participate at the 9th International Conference for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Safety 2008 in Merida, Mexico, March 15-18th 2008. The program will be presented as a part of an invited plenary session on sports injury prevention, and two posters.
