We’re starting to send out notices to TDs whose SafeSport certification is about to expire, they need to take a refresher course.
I received mine four hours ago. With the grace period that is a reasonable time to have one sent (two days before expiration). Many TDs will have done the renewal a week earlier and thus would not have needed to receive such a notification.
Since they reset the year from the completion date of your course, there’s not much advantage to taking it more than a few days early.
We were initially hoping to send out the first batch of these email notices in late August, but delays are inevitable.
Yes I was disappointed to learn that this wasn’t at least a month setup like the standard membership.
US Chess is just a user of SafeSport’s training package, so they don’t get to decide the rules and conditions.
Surely USCF can decide some aspects of how it views passing each given course, considering it’s the one deciding on requiring passing any course at all?
I don’t know what agreements US Chess had to sign to use SafeSport’s training, but I doubt it would allow US Chess saying certification is good for 2 years rather than 1 year or similar changes in certification duration.
“If taken in September 2023 is good until September 30, 2024” is a very dissimilar change to your hypothetical.
I got my reminder notice via email one hour after I took the refresher course. Cost me 99 cents. Might be good to place info on the refresher course in a prominent place on the website.
Not sure whose hypothetical you’re referring to here. I doubt I ever said ‘good until September 30, 2024’.
Mike Nolan
If you look back up, Mike, you can see that my initial complaint was that the expiration was date based rather than month based, making your “two years instead of one year” hypothetical rather dissimilar to my “I wish this were month based expiration like the USCF membership” comment.