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Safety certification for martial arts academies

Protect the academy from every direction.

Safe Academy 360 screens and certifies your coaches, documents your standards, and checks every new registration against public records and sex offender registries, inside the signup your members already complete.

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$25 per month per academy, plus $5 per month for each certified coach. No setup fee.

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  • Screened and trained coaches
  • Written standards the academy has adopted
  • A check on every new registration
  • A record of all three

Why this matters

One incident ends a school. Not because the owner was careless, but because nothing was written down, nobody was trained, and no one checked. Safe Academy 360 puts training, written standards, and registration screening behind the academy so the answer to "what were you doing about it" already exists.

What the 360 covers

Safe Academy 360 is a martial arts safety certification for the academy and its coaches, with registration screening built in. The 360 is coverage around the whole operation, not a checklist an owner completes once. Each direction states what it does and what it does not do. Read each one in full.

Certification of the academy and its coaches

Each coach is screened by legal name and date of birth against public sex offender registries and state prison records the moment they are added, and again every month. Coaches complete SafeSport, mandated reporter, and CPR and first aid training, upload each certificate from a phone, and sign the academy's code of conduct electronically. The academy adopts its own written standards and is listed publicly.

Uploaded certificates are kept on file. They are not verified with the issuing body. Each credential expires on its own clock, and a coach's status shows lapsed when any one of them does.

Certification in detail

Screening at registration

When someone registers with your academy, the adult account holder is checked by legal name and date of birth against the public sex offender registries of all 58 US jurisdictions and state prison records, the moment the registration lands, and again every month. Screening is disclosed in the registration agreement. A returned record goes to Safe Academy 360 reviewers and the academy's alert contact is emailed. Nothing is decided until a person has compared the record with the person.

An absence of matches is not proof of anything. Registry data is incomplete, matching is name based, and some sources may not answer a given search. No screening catches everyone.

Screening in detail

What it is not

Safe Academy 360 is an independent third party verifier. The academy does not certify itself, and the program is not owned by any academy, affiliation, or sanctioning body. It is operated by Roll Payments, which also provides payment services to academies. Who operates this and why.

This is not a government program, not a licensing body, and not a guarantee. Registry and public records data is incomplete, matching is imperfect, and no screening catches everyone.

What Safe Academy 360 gives an academy is screened and trained coaches, written standards, a check on every new registration, and a record of all three.

The record

Both directions leave a record: who was screened and when, which trainings were completed and when they expire, which standards the academy adopted, and which registrations were checked. The record is what turns "we take safety seriously" into something an owner can show. Every screen is run again each month, so the record stays current instead of aging from the day of signup.

The academy status card in the Safe Academy platform: a progress bar from academy and coaches added, through documents submitted and review, to certified, with counts of requirements verified, coaches complete, items awaiting review, missing, and expired.
The academy's status in the platform, shown on demonstration data. The academy and every coach are tracked together, and the count of open items is always visible.

$25per month per academy

$5per month for each certified coach

No setup fee. The price is the same for every academy, with no tier and no discount that expires.

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How enrollment works

  1. Tell us about the academy

    Academy name, location, how many coaches to certify, and how many students are minors. The enrollment form takes a few minutes.

  2. Coaches are screened, then train

    Each coach is screened by legal name and date of birth the moment they are added, and again every month. Coaches complete SafeSport, mandated reporter, and CPR and first aid training with the providers directly.

  3. Certificates go on file and the code of conduct is signed

    Each coach uploads their certificates from a phone and signs the academy's code of conduct electronically. The academy adopts its written standards and keeps them where members can read them.

  4. The academy is listed

    The academy appears in the public directory with its certificate number, and receives its certificate, placard artwork, and a website badge that links to its verify page. Each credential is tracked to its own expiry date.

Certified academies

The first certified academies will be listed here as they complete the program. If your academy has certified and is not listed, tell us.

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Common questions

Plain answers about what certification does and does not mean.

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Is this a government program or a license?

No. Safe Academy 360 is a private program operated by Roll Payments. It is not a government program, not a licensing body, and not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Center for SafeSport, any registry operator, any sanctioning body, or any insurer.

Does certification mean a coach or academy is safe?

No. Certification means the academy's coaches were screened against public records, completed the three trainings, signed the academy's code of conduct, and have their certificates on file, and that the academy adopted written standards. It reduces risk. It does not guarantee anyone's conduct, and no screening catches everyone.

What does a Safe Academy 360 listing tell a parent?

That the academy has met the program's requirements as of the certified date shown, and when its renewal is due. It does not tell a parent anything about any individual, and it is not a substitute for asking the academy questions directly. Questions any parent should ask.

What happens when a coach's certificate expires?

Each credential has its own expiry date, tracked separately. When any one of a coach's credentials expires, that coach's status shows lapsed until a current certificate is uploaded, and the academy's certification shows not current until then. Expiry dates are visible to the academy and the coach ahead of time.

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