Program elements

Participation in the Program provides an opportunity for you to raise concerns, be heard and be supported through meaningful outcomes that are designed to enable your recovery and improved wellbeing.

Access to counselling and wellbeing services

You will be eligible to access counselling and related support services to enable your recovery and improve your wellbeing.

The AIS Mental Health Referral Network (MHRN) is a group of expert psychologists and mental health clinicians available to provide confidential and specialised support to you.

Restorative engagement

The restorative engagement process provides you the opportunity to engage with a senior representative from the ASC. These engagements occur after careful preparation by a specially trained facilitator who will work with you to understand what aspects of your experience you would like to discuss with the senior representative and what potential outcomes you hope to achieve. The engagement between you and the ASC representative involves sharing your story and experiences and the representative responding to this. These engagements may be in the form of a meeting, letter, other form of exchange or to visit a particular site.

Financial payment

As a participant in the Program, you may be eligible for a one-off financial payment. Eligibility for a payment is a separate determination to eligibility to participate in the Program. Applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis.

The Program is not a compensation scheme. Any payment is intended as a symbolic acknowledgement of an athlete’s experience and its impact, not as compensation.

A payment is not intended to affect any legal liability. An athlete receiving a payment under the Program will not be required to release the ASC from any legal liability and similarly the payment will not constitute an admission of legal liability by the ASC.