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Branded a Leader Training

Institute for Sport and Social Justice

Branded a Leader, created in 2008 by the National Consortium for Academics & Sports (NCAS),now officially the Institute For Sport & Social Justice (Institute SSJ) was developed in partnership with Michigan State University. Michigan State’s Student Athlete Support Services was seeking a training that would engage their student-athletes in educational discussions on key issues such as: Violence Against Women, Alcohol & Drugs, Hazing and Responsible Computing. The Southeastern Conference (SEC) adopted BAL as a conference-wide training initiative beginning in 2008.

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Bullying Prevention Training for Coaches and Parents

National Alliance for Youth Sports

The National Alliance for Youth Sports is aware that bullying in sports is an extremely important topic for coaches and parents of young athletes regardless of the age of the players. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found 20% of high school aged kids have experienced some form of bullying on school grounds alone in their lifetime. Those numbers only increase when incorporating recreation sports.

Because this is such an important subject, we have created optional bullying prevention training courses for NAYS Coaches and NAYS Parents as a supplement to the information they received during their training. NAYS has also decided to offer this course to everyone, completely FREE!

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Champions Building Champions

Men As Peacemakers

Champions Building Champions is a highly successful athletic mentoring program that connects Duluth youth with college athletes. With the help of our partners, Arrowhead Youth Soccer Association, UMD athletics, the Boys and Girls Club, and Duluth Parks, we run weekly sports sessions for youth. Our activities are free and open to everyone. We provide athletic opportunities for all youth, regardless of economic background.

All activities are facilitated by collegiate athletes who focus on building constructive relationships with the youth involved.  By providing kids with strong male and female role models we strive to instill positive values: respect, gender equity, commitment, and leadership.

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Listed under: Youth, College, Athletes, Leagues, Engage in Partnership, Build Champions

Character Initiative Grant (InSideOut Program)

InSideOut Initiative, Arlington School District, and Dallas Cowboys (NFL)

InSideOut Initiative began in January 2016 with the the Dallas Cowboys in coordination with the NFL Foundation on a character education program that has been endorsed by the UIL and the Texas High School Coaches Association. The Cowboys have helped host three InSideOut meetings with key superintendents and athletic decision-makers across the start to help bring awareness to this initiative.

Subsequently, the Arlington ISD was awarded nearly $30,000 in grants from the Gene and Jerry Jones Family Arlington Youth Foundation to support a character training initiative for 375 AISD secondary coaches with Joe Ehrmann, former NFL Colts player and co-founder of the InSideOut Initiative and Jody Redman, InSideOut Initiative co-founder and Minnesota State High School League associate director.

For more on the national InSideOut Initative, visit https://insideoutinitiative.org/

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Character Playbook Online Training

NFL & United Way

The NFL and United Way launched a new digital learning initiative that teaches students the skills to cultivate character and maintain healthy relationships throughout their lives. 

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Child Safety Packet

National Council on Youth Sports

NCYS has developed a NCYS Child Safety Packet as a valuable resource and essential tools for those who participate in the amateur youth sports/youth serving industry. NCYS, through this gold standard of best practices national template, has established the minimum industry standard that a youth-serving organization should incorporate when establishing its own policy to protect the interests of youth participants within the organization.

Contents of the NCYS Child Safety Packet include:

• NCYS Recommended Guidelines©
• NCYS Codes of Conduct Template©
• NCYS-NCSI Member Benefit Discount
• NCSI Introductory Presentation
• NCSI Prevention & Response Training
• D2L Additional Resources for Youth Serving Orgs
• NCYS Membership Application

The NCYS Recommended Guidelines, 2nd edition, The Gold Standard of Best Practices for Background Screening and Managing Risk In Nonprofit Youth-Serving Organizations© were created to assist those who are responsible for the children in youth programs to no longer have to reinvent the wheel of minimum standards for policies, procedures, and best practices. The NCYS Recommended Guidelines have become the national template for promoting safety while protecting children and athletes.

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Listed under: Youth, Leagues, Enforce Policy, Provide Resources

Circles of Safety

Stop It Now!, USA Football, Center for Violence Prevention

The Center for Violence Prevention (CVPR), Stop It Now!, and USA Football have received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to evaluate Circles of Safety, a child sexual abuse prevention program that teaches adults how to identify and interrupt boundary violating behavior with youth. The evaluate will examine outcomes from the program in community-based youth football leagues.

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Cleveland Says NO MORE Campaign

Cleveland Browns (NFL), Domestic Violence & Child Advocacy Center, and City of Cleveland's Division of Police

The Cleveland Browns partnered with the City of Cleveland’s Division of Police as well as the Domestic Violence & Child Advocacy Center to help create awareness for Domestic Violence during the month of October (2016) and to support efforts locally in Cleveland.  This included support of the Division of Police’s Cleveland Says NO MORE initiative, and the DVCAC’s programming and services offered to those affected by DV. Throughout the month of October, the City, community partners and sponsors hosted weekly events to raise awareness about domestic violence and ask Clevelander’s to join in the City’s campaign efforts to end violence.

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Coach and Administrator Training Programs

Up2Us

Sports and physical activity help kids build strong bodies and brains. Interactions with trained coaches help them build the skills they need for life. All of our trainings focus on creating capable, thoughtful youth development practitioners who use sport as the vehicle through which they build strong relationships with youth. To accomplish this, coaches must be able to create an inclusive, positive team culture, design practices with high levels of physical activity, and help youth translate the skills they learn on the field into other areas of their lives.

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Coach Toolkit for Creating a Safe Space

Up2Us

Up2Us Sports and StandUP have created this toolkit to assist coaches and program administrators as they work to address negative behaviors, educate their peers, and create safety for all youth. The purpose of this toolkit is to help coaches address and prevent situations in their programs that make young people feel unwelcome or unsafe through evidence-based best practices and strategies.

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Coaching Boys into Men Program

Futures Without Violence

FUTURES’ Coaching Boys into Men (CBIM) program facilitates these connections by providing high school athletic coaches with the resources they need to promote respectful behavior among their players and help prevent relationship abuse, harassment, and sexual assault")

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Coaching Boys Into Men Program Evaluation

Futures Without Violence

In 2012, Coaching Boys Into Men underwent a rigorous three year evaluation in Sacramento, California funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The study found that athletes who participated in the program were significantly more likely to intervene when witnessing abusive or disrespectful behaviors among their peers, and were also more likely to report less abuse perpetration.

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Coaching Boys into Men Video Series

Futures Without Violence & FISA Foundation

This site provides video resources to supplement the Coaching Boys Into Men dating violence prevention program for high school athletic coaches to use with their male athletes. If you have the curricula, you can proceed to Getting Started videos to help you prepare to deliver CBIM, or use the menu to skip to any of the topics in the card series. FISA Foundation, in partnership with The Heinz Endowments and the United Way of Allegheny County developed Southwest PA Says No More to showcase the important prevention-focused work happening here, and to make it easier for individuals and organizations to take action to stop gender-based violence. One area of focus is Sport and Athletics.

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Coaching For Change

Men As Peacemakers

Coaching for Change is an interactive on-line training that provides coaches on the ground examples of how to recognize and address issues of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, teen dating violence, and domestic violence.  The training focuses on the primary prevention of these behaviors by introducing skills and strategies which create a team culture of gender equity and respect. This is a mandated training by the Minnesota State High School League for MN state high school coaches’ licensure.

This free training is available to all- Just sign in with your email address and city/state and you'll receive access. 

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Coaching for Character Clinic

Play Like A Champion

Designed specifically for youth coaches, the Coaching for Character (C4C) clinic emphasizes the character building elements of sports: teamwork, fairness, friendship, perseverance, courage, and leadership. Based on the latest research in the sport science as well as child & sports psychology, Play Like a Champion Today offers a one-of-a-kind, interactive clinic to educate coaches on how to foster the full  development of their athletes through building cohesive teams. 

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Coaching Peace Presentations

Coaching Peace

You can listen to someone talk, hear their perspective, their stories and their ideas.  Or, you can engage in a conversation with an insightful thought provoking leader in organizational effectiveness about how to create the culture you want to create, make sustainable changes or get clear about what actions will get you where you want to be.  At Coaching Peace, our presentations mirror the latter. 

While each of our presentations are tailored to an organization some topics have been:

• Creating Positive Cultures
• Understanding Equity and Inclusion
• Motivating and Empowering Learners 
• Building Empathy
• Creating Dynamic Leaders

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Coaching Youth Sports Training

National Alliance for Youth Sports

The core of the NAYS Coach Training is Coaching Youth Sports, which is a universal training video for all youth sports coaches, regardless of the sport he/she is coaching. The Coaching Youth Sports video covers topics such as:

• Psychology of Youth Sports
• Teaching Good Sportsmanship
• Youth Sports Violence
• Being a Positive Role Model
• Avoiding Yelling as a Coaching Technique
• Building Confidence
• Working with Parents
• Nutrition and Hydration
• Injury and Concussion Prevention
• Conditioning
• Stretching
• Child Abuse in Youth Sports
• Working with Athletes with Special Challenges

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Coaching4Change Program

Coaching4Change

Coaching 4 Change matches middle school students with high school and college students from the community in a small group setting. These mentoring groups become small "growth teams" focused on social emotional learning and academics. The C4C after school interventions engage youth through mentoring, physical activity, and academic enrichment.

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College Athletics Role in SV Prevention Report

NCAA

This best practice guide for athletics administrators and campus partners provides recommended approaches to prevent or reduce the incidents of sexual assault and other acts of interpersonal violence on college campuses.

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Dating Violence Education Workshop

One Love Foundation & Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL)

The Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL) partnered with their local United Way and One Love Foundation to help bring awareness of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault to high school age students throughout the Jaguars community.

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