81 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 R. Volpe (ed.), Casebook of Traumatic Injury Prevention, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27419-1_6 SafeClub: An Efective Soccer Injury Prevention Program Daisy Radha Singla SafeClub is an injury prevention program designed for the soccer community to promote risk management techniques in soccer practices and games, which utilizes multifaceted strategies that incorporates soccer club administrators. 6.1 Background 6.1.1 History and Development YouthSafe (ca. 1982, formerly SpineSafe) began as an injury prevention program solely devoted to preventing spinal cord injury. SpineSafe dissemi- nated injury prevention information by employ- ing an individual who was experiencing a spine injury to conduct information sessions about how to prevent spinal cord injury. These informational sessions were presented to youth in school set- tings. The implementation of SpineSafe contin- ued until 1999 when the organization examined injury prevention evidence. As a result, YouthSafe, what was once considered a branch of SpineSafe, became SafeClub. Furthermore, while spinal cord injury remains a focus of both YouthSafe and SafeClub, both YouthSafe and SafeClub decided to focus on primary prevention of all injuries (K. Abbott, personal communication, January 23, 2008). The program SafeClub was devised in 2001 by Alex Donaldson, former Health Promotion Offcer at Northern Sydney Health Promotion Service. The foundation of the program began with research into sports safety techniques among 150 community clubs across four codes (i.e., sports): rugby league, rugby union, netball, and soccer. This research concluded that few commu- nity sports clubs implemented organized risk management techniques, and soccer community clubs were the most likely to implement the least number of sports safety-related activities (Abbott & Donaldson, 2004). A joint venture between YouthSafe and Northern Sidney Central Coast Health (NSCCH), SafeClub was subsequently founded as a private organization in 2002. Consultations with local community sports clubs were undertaken by YouthSafe. These con- sultations involved communicating with sports administrators, players, and coaches to request information including current sports safety activ- ities and resources, those lacking in demand and those activities required to support community sports clubs (K. Abbott, personal communica- tion, January 23, 2008). According to Abbott, feedback determined that “it was obvious that giving information on a specifc topic wasn’t going to be relevant to a vast majority of these clubs.” Thus, SafeClub was devised specifcally to provide a systematic execution in managing D. R. Singla (*) Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada e-mail: daisy.singla@utoronto.ca 6