National Youth Sports Week Tuesday, Oct 25—Coaches Day Let’s emphasize the importance of access to quality coaching tools and resources and the role trained coaches play in creating positive youth sports experiences. Brought to you by Positive Coaching Alliance PEP RALLY DAY | COACHES DAY | WELLNESS DAY | SAFETY DAY | SPIRIT DAY | PLAY DAY COACHING TOOLS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Develop Winners in Life Through Sports Join the Positive Coaching Alliance team as they walk through all the resources coaches and families can use to create a greater youth sports experience. Learn, Do, Celebrate An estimated 6.5 million coaches provide youth sports instruction, but less than 5% have received formal training. Join Positive Coaching Alliance on Tuesday, October 25th for a FREE coaching webinar as well as access to select courses in their coaching curriculum. Let’s help make every coaching experience a positive one! Learn Families: Learn how to “Develop Winners in Life Through Sports” with this informational webinar from Positive Coaching Alliance. Register to watch Clubs & Teams: Learn how to conduct a coach evaluation. Download these sample coaching evaluation forms. They are a great start to help build an end-of-season evaluation for your coaching staff. Get started Do Families: Have you ever thought about being a volunteer coach? Now is the time to sign up. Already coaching your youngster? These tips are still for you—Download PCA’s list of top 10 coaching tips. Learn more Clubs & Teams: Coaches receive FREE access to PCA’s Coaching for Winning & Life Lessons course through SportsEngine. Get access by signing up for your voucher code using the link below. Get the voucher Celebrate Families: Thank your coaches today! Nominate them for the PCA Double-Goal Coach® award and share their nomination on social media with the hashtags #nationalyouthsportsweek #thankyoucoach and tag @positivecoachus and @youthsportsNCYS on Twitter. Nominate a coach Clubs & Teams: The year-end party is a great place to celebrate your exemplary coaches. We've gathered the top tips for planning that year-end team party. See more ☆ BIG IDEA ☆ National Youth Sports Week Youth Development Techniques Join us in helping the Susan Crown Exchange train one million coaches in youth development techniques by 2025. As an anchor partner of Million Coaches Challenge, PCA will train over 400,000 youth sports coaches to incorporate SEL and PYD into their coaching practices. Will those be the coaches in your organization? Read More Featured Coaching Content PCA’s Development Zone® Resource Center hosts more than 1,800 tools and resources in a searchable platform for coaches and leaders to support their athletes on and off the field and create a positive youth sports experience. Here are a few of our top picks. Surviving Tryouts and Cuts Disagree With Your Child’s Coach? How To Handle, And When To Intervene Supporting Your Children When They Make Mistakes Seize Teachable Moments In Televised Sports To Reinforce Character Should Parents Intervene When the Coach is Being Unfair? See more at the Positive Coaching Alliance Dev Zone More from Positive Coaching Alliance The Fine Art of Parenting an Athlete: 10 Takeaways from the Tokyo Olympics What can the Olympics teach us about parenting successful athletes? Cloud9: Can Esports Teach Life Lessons? As eSports gain popularity among kids and athletes, learn how parents can navigate this new kind of playing field. Devin McCourty: Leadership, Relationships, Self-Awareness Devin McCourty talks leadership and mindfulness. “Winning at What Cost” the Mental Health Crisis Facing Today’s Student Athletes Learn more about the mental health challenges facing high school athletes and positive role coaches, schools, and communities can play make improvements. Supporting Each Other Through Tough Times As human beings, we have our own version of this called an Emotional Tank. If our tank is full of positive inputs and encouragement the better positioned we are to achieve success Herm Edwards Talks About Being a Triple Impact Competitor Herm talks about what it means to be a Triple-Impact Competitor® especially as it relates to the current events with the COVID-19 Pandemic and racial injustice. Discussion Guide: Q Ball This film includes themes of using sports to overcome life’s struggles, reckoning with and then learning from past mistakes, and effective teamwork Preventing Hazing And Bullying On Your Team Hazing is the practice of rituals and other activities involving harassment, abuse, or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group. Often held up as tradition, coaches may feel pressure to allow these rituals in the... Disagree With Your Child’s Coach? How To Handle, And When To Intervene Discover what you can do when you're running into issues with your youth athlete's coach. Honoring the Game — Life is a Team Sport “Honoring The Game,” is one of the most sacred of principles we teach for athletes, coaches, parents and leaders. How to Handle the Pouting Athlete With Attitude Problems PCA lead trainer, Joe Terrasi, addresses how to handle kids behavioral issues on and off the field. How Parents/Caregivers Can Support Their Athletes Through Tough Moments Supporting your young athlete goes beyond celebrating victories—it’s about showing up with empathy, especially during the tough moments when they need it the most. View More