On March 7, 2018 Royal Assent was granted to Bill 193 to enact Rowan’s Law in Ontario.

The Act imposes various requirements on sport organizations. This new legislation is intended to ensure better management of concussions in amateur sport and will establish mandatory requirements for:

• Annual review of concussion awareness resources that athletes, coaches, educators and parents would be required to review before registering in a sport;
• Removal-from-sport and return-to-sport protocols, to ensure that an athlete is immediately removed from sport if they are suspected of having sustained a concussion; and
• A concussion code of conduct that would set out rules of behaviour to minimize concussions while playing sport.

The Kingston Grenadiers Football Club have been of the forefront of injury and concussion prevention, player safety being our first priority, as a tool to optimize athletic development. As a busy parent, you may not understand the full complexity of concussions – they are both a tricky and sensitive topic! It’s easy to identify your child’s bruise or scrape, but it’s not always as simple to identify an injury inside the head. 

Please dont hesitate to ask for a copy of Kingston Grenadiers Concussion Education documents for more information, practical help and support.

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