Education

Why NCYS is involved in education

Member Benefits
The National Council of Youth Sports has excellent resources to enhance the personal and professional development of amateur youth sport leaders while staying current with the trends and meeting continuing education needs.

If you're like most sports enthusiasts, you have a desire to learn, gain experience, and self-improve. The NCYS has teamed up with providers to offer high-quality, online education courses and resources for our members.

Training

Certified Sports Administrator (CSA)

The NCYS has partnered with internationally renowned The George Washington University (GWU) School of Business to develop a customized, flexible and affordable educational program that provides management-related courses to NCYS executives to address the existing market.

The six online Certified Sports Administrator (CSA) courses are ideal for youth sports administrators, leaders, managers, volunteers, coaches, parents who do not have the time to attend an in-person classroom setting. The program was designed with convenience in mind. You have three months to complete each course. Users can bookmark their spot so they can exit and re-enter the course, it's accessible 24 hours a day, and online learning gives users the opportunity to learn at their own pace.
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Sports Parenting and Coaching Tips

NCYS thanks PlaySportsTV for its dedication to producing Sports and Coaching Parenting Tips as well as a nationally recognized library of high quality life skills and sports skills instructional materials that are easy to use, easy to understand, easy to implement, and at the same time are concise yet comprehensive.

Whether an individual is seeking a base of knowledge for the first time or increasing their range of skills and drills, PlaySportsTV's online instructional videos in 17 youth sports works for training at all levels. Furthermore, PlaySportsTV's materials can be effortlessly integrated to complement an organization's existing teams and leagues training. Youth sports industry coaches, team managers and sports parents have 24/7 online access to PlaySportsTV's videos and training plans.
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Health and Wellness

Let's Move!

Childhood obesity or excess weight threatens the healthy future of one third of American children. We spend $150 billion every year to treat obesity-related conditions, and that number is growing. Obesity rates tripled in the past 30 years, a trend that means, for the first time in our history, American children may face a shorter expected lifespan than their parents. We need to get moving. Join First Lady Michelle Obama, community leaders, teachers, doctors, nurses, moms and dads in a nationwide campaign to tackle the challenge of childhood obesity. Let's Move! has an ambitious but important goal: to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation.
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PALA: Presidential Active Lifestyle Award

This program truly lives up to its name. The Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) challenge will help you add activity to your life, and reward you when you do. Are you ready to get moving? Join on your own or start a group - whether it's a few friends you'd like to work out with or an organization that could stand to get healthier. You pick your challenge and strive to reach your goal, logging your physical activity along the way. An added bonus for reaching your goal and improving your health: Presidential Active Lifestyle Award!
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Other Resources

Growing Champions for Life

www.growingchampionsforlife.com
Growing Champions for Life provides parents, coaches, and athletes with practical tools and positive strategies for creating healthy teams, principle-centered athletes, and cohesive families. We produce on-line materials/videos and deliver live workshops that help parents and coaches play their roles more effectively, so kids perform their best and stay in sports longer. The True Hero Inner Circle on-line membership program gives parents and coaches an ever-growing resource of courses, articles, videos, and audio interviews that challenge and stimulate those who influence young athletes. Our programs lengthen youth sport careers, improve parent/child relationships, and increase cooperation between parents and coaches/administrators.

Our live workshops for parents and coaches teach specific strategies that have proven to be successful in tennis, gymnastics, volleyball, baseball, soccer, basketball, and figure skating. Clients include USTA Player Development, Florida Youth Soccer Association, USA Volleyball-FL Region, USA Gymnastics National Congress, and Evert Tennis Academy. We form affiliations with youth sport organizations who wish to add value to their program and increase family loyalty to the relationship.

CDC - Heat Related Illness (HRI)

http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/hsb/extreme/Heat_Illness
This CDC online course informs coaches, teachers, parents, and high school athletes about Heat Related Illness (HRI). It shows how to recognize, prevent and treat HRI among athletes. Although most incidences of HRI in the media involve high school football players, athletes of various sports activities and ages can become susceptible to HRI. The content in this course primarily concentrates on HRI in high school athletes, but it can be adapted to prevent HRI among athletes of all ages and activities, such as high school soccer players, little league players (ages 6-13) and college- level athletes.

PREPARE for the Unexpected

http://www.sportssafety.org/prepare
PREPARE is an online sports safety course aimed at educating coaches on how to prevent common injuries, how to recognize symptoms of potentially dangerous conditions, and how to respond in emergency situations. The PREPARE course is ideal for volunteer youth coaches who do not have the time to attend safety workshops, but need to know how to be PREPARED.