German Sports Youth (dsj) and its member organisations have a clear commitment to safe sport that is free from violence and are resolutely working to counteract any form of violence in sport. Sports associations and clubs have an intrinsic responsibility to ensure that people are protected from psychological, physical and sexualised violence as far as possible within their structures. Playing sport in a club is supposed to empower children and young people and provide them with a protective environment. Therefore, sports clubs are involved in the task of protecting children and young people, which is a task facing society as a whole, and help children and young people to find important contacts and support.
dsj is actively committed to providing protection against violence at all levels of organised sport through prevention, intervention and processing. In 2010, the DOSB member organisations entered into a commitment to provide protection against sexualised violence in sport. This took the form of the “Munich Declaration” with the slogan “Prevent and explain, look and act!”. The dsj multi-stage model, which was launched in 2018, and the DOSB multi-stage model, which was approved by the DOSB Members’ Meeting in 2020, laid down important foundations in a binding form. Funding for the member organisations was linked to the step-by-step implementation of far-reaching standards relating to protection against sexualised violence in sport. All the measures pay into the goal of comprehensively embedding protection against violence throughout the structures of organised sport nationwide, down to a club level, and of ultimately making each of the around 87,000 sports clubs into a safe space.