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PCA Development Zone Resource Center

Positive Coaching Alliance

Search thousands of resources to develop better athletes, better people. Search by "Topic in Sport" to reach Preventing Sexual Abuse specific resources.

General resource sections include, Recruiting, 1st time coaching, tryouts, playing time, and parent/coach conflict. You can search by role as well (Coach, Parent, Athlete, Admin/Leader, and Official/Referee). 

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How to be Trauma Sensitive & Responsive in your Coaching

Play Like A Champion

Young people today are exposed to a variety of situations that may induce trauma. Play Like a Champion provides the following information to help coaches understand trauma and to respond to trauma and its impact on today’s youth. This page includes several downloadable resources for coaches on this critical topic.

Attachment: Trauma Responsive Coaching.pdf

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IMPACT Administrators' Toolkit

Men As Peacemakers

A 6-step guide to saftey & gender equity in sports.

This toolkit includes resources for Executive Directors, Club Presidents, Coaching Directors or other leaders of community athletic organizations. The resources included will teach your coaches to promote safety, respect, and gender equity with all players. This guide is meant to provide examples and a framework for the development of your organization’s policies and procedures. Our previous work with the Minnesota State High School League, Arrowhead Youth Soccer Association, Winona Youth Soccer Association, and other sports organizations, has taught us that every organization is unique. We encourage you to work with us directly to tailor your approach to your specific community of coaches and players. Contact Men As Peacemakers at info@menaspeacemakers.org or 218-727-1939 to get started.

Attachment: Administrators-Toolkit_9-25.pdf

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10 Commandments for Sport Parents

Play Like A Champion

Tip sheet for parents to positively engage youth athletes in discussion, goal-setting, and framing sport participation. 

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A CALL TO COACHES Training Events

A CALL TO MEN

A CALL TO COACHES is a series of educational training events where coaches are empowered to build young men of character, to promote healthy, respectful manhood, and prevent violence and discrimination against all women and girls.  Often in partnership with members of the sport community, these events speak to sport leaders in a language that can be understood and used in a sport setting. 

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A CALL TO MEN Speakers

A CALL TO MEN

A CALL TO MEN speaks at hundreds of events annually.  From introductory workshops, multi-day trainings, and community and government events, to corporate trainings and national conferences, A CALL TO MEN can customize programming to meet the needs of the organization.

With a seasoned group of Core Trainers, A CALL TO MEN also offers subject matter experts that specialize in the following:

• Preventing sexual assault, sexual harassment, violence and discrimination in the military

• Preventing sexual assault, violence and discrimination in college and universities

• Preventing gang and community violence

• Preventing violence and discrimination in faith communities

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Academy for Youth Sport Administrators

National Alliance for Youth Sports

The Academy for Youth Sports Administrators is a comprehensive certification program offering cutting-edge information on critical topics for professional youth sports administrators. The Academy’s primary goal is to provide professionals with the foundation and tools needed to positively impact the youth sports experience for all children in their communities. It is designed as an interpersonal, educational and networking opportunity that no youth sports administrator should miss.

The Academy is offered Online or Onsite and is the only place where the Certified Youth Sports Administrator (CYSA) credential can be earned! Attendees gain a foundation of knowledge as well as new perspectives on developing workable solutions to challenges and issues faced while on the job.

Topics covered within the Academy include:

• Youth sports philosophy
• Policies & procedures
• Volunteer management
• Child abuse and bullying prevention
• Parent management
• Conflict resolution
• Insurance & risk management
• Emergency preparedness and injury prevention
• Inclusion of children with disabilities
• Evaluation & marketing of your program
• Model youth sports program
• Professional development

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All Staff SV/DV Education Program - Year 3

NFL

This program was developed and implemented by the NFL in it's 3rd year (2017) of SV/DV, DUI, and Firearms Safety training for all NFL and associated club staff, players, and coaches. 

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Athletes As Leaders

Harborview Center for Sexual Assault & Traumatic Stress

Athletes As Leaders is a program for high school athletes on girls’ sports teams.  The program aims to empower female-identified youth to take an active role in promoting healthy relationships and ending sexual violence. It is based on research and best practices in the field of sexual assault prevention. 

Athletes are encouraged to be leaders in changing peer norms and school climate to a culture of safety and respect.  Athletes As Leaders is intended to be used as
a complement to programs with intentional efforts to engage men and boys in prevention.

Attachment: Athletes As Leaders info sheet.pdf

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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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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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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 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 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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