BBA recognizes that one-on-one time with trusted adult volunteers can be a healthy and beneficial experience for our athletes. However, it is also recognized that most sexual abuse of children is perpetrated in isolated, one-on-one situations. To reduce the potential risks of such occurrences, BBA recognizes that reasonable policies and procedures must be created to regulate interactions between adult volunteers and our athletes. These policies will allow for the benefits of one-on-one interactions but also reduce the potential risks involved with such interactions. 

One-on-one interactions that do occur between an applicable adult, who is not the parent or legal guardian, while partially or fully under BBA’s jurisdiction (within the City of Berea or engaged in a mutual sporting event within our partner jurisdictions), are permitted if they occur in an observable and interruptible distance of at least one other adult; preferably another affiliated trusted adult or a parent or legal guardian of the athlete.  An “applicable adult” is defined as a BBA volunteer or board member.

Unless a medical emergency or an unforeseen exigent circumstance that would cause imminent danger to the athlete exists, one-on-one meetings should never take place in a closed environment (i.e., locker room, bathroom, office, vehicle). One-on-one interactions with anyone other than the parent, legal guardian, or family member of the athlete are prohibited unless the parent/legal guardian emails the BBA Compliance Committee prior to each event to allow interactions with an applicable adult (i.e., allowing the athlete’s coach to give your child(ren) a ride home or engaging in an individual training session).