Locker Room Monitor

Pursuant to Minnesota State Hockey rules and regulations, the Moose Youth Hockey Association is requiring that a mandatory locker room attendant is present for all competitive level teams for practices and games, both at home and away. Your team representative will be scheduling each family specific dates and times for your entire season, and it will be tracked and reported back to the board. This means that each person that will be required to perform locker room duty must be registered with USA Hockey, have a current background screening, and must be current with their SafeSport Training. You can complete these tasks via the following links.

USA Hockey Volunteer Registration https://membership.usahockey.com (Required every year)

Background Screening https://www.usahockey.com/backgroundscreen (Required every 2 years)

SafeSport Training https://www.usahockey.com/safesporttraining (Required every 12 months)

The presence of adults in the locker rooms is critical to maintaining a safe and positive environment. More than half of all SafeSport incidents reported each year occur in locker rooms. In all but a few cases, there was no locker room monitor present.

Whenever players are present in the locker room, there must be at least one background-screened and SafeSport- trained adult present in the locker room. There will not be any players allowed in the locker room without a locker room attendant present. Once the coach, or coaches are in the locker room with the skaters, the attendant will be allowed to leave. The prevention of hazing, bullying, harassment, or other inappropriate behaviors in addition to physical harm caused by horseplay, can be lessened by enforcing this policy. The physical presence of an adult(s) is far more effective in deterring and stopping misbehavior and enables the adult(s) to visually monitor the behavior of the individual players and to intercede prior to an incident getting out of hand. Additionally, it affords the opportunity to ensure that players are not using their electronic devices inappropriately.

There will be additional communication regarding this policy during our upcoming team level meetings. Thank you all for helping us make this a fun safe place for our kids to play the sport that they love.