Coach Certification     

Coaching Director: Kygen Dautremont 

coach@highriverlacrosse.com

REGISTRATION PROCEDURES FOR COACHING CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS (NCCP PROGRAMS)

CDLA Community Development Courses for 2023

April 15,2023 - Oakridge Community Centre

April 16,2023 - Oakridge Community Centre

April 23,2023 - Oakridge Community Centre

April 30,2023 - Oakridge Community Centre

May 13,2023 - Oakridge Community Centre

May 14,2023 - Oakridge Community Centre

April 22,2023 - Female only Community Development Clinic - Oakridge Community Centre

** Note - your club will be charged $30 for this course.  If you do not attend, or cancel at the last minute, they will be charged $20 **

To register for online clinics, please click on the link below in step one of the COACHING CERTIFICATION COURSE REGISTRATION PROCEDURES

Please review the following information before you initiate course registration request:

Coaching Certification Course Registration Procedures

1. Complete this following online registration form - click here to fill out coach clinic registration form

** NOTE - You are NOT officially signed up for any course once you complete the sign up above.  The link at the bottom of these instructions shows you how to login to the NCCP site and register for a course.  You must follow the instructions in the guide below to be 'officially' registered.

2. You will be sent a course ‘code‘/access id and further instructions
3. You must then login to the Canadian Lacrosse Association NCCP website system as instructed
4. Complete the ‘pre-clinic‘ assessment (this can take between 1-2 hours and is for community development and competitive introduction levels only); this MUST be done before you attend the course
5. Once your pre-clinic assessment has been completed, you must also register online for the course via your NCCP account, status tab. This step puts your name onto the clinicians list which is used to update attendance in the nccp.lacrosse.ca system.
6. Attend the required course, be sure you complete the attendance sheet at the clinic
7. Complete your coach‘s workbook ( Competitive Introduction level only ) online through your NCCP account, status tab. Once your attendance is marked, you will receive an auto-email from the system advising your workbook is now ready for completion.
8. Minimum age to Coach is 16
9. Please keep a record of your NCCP system login id and password as CDLA does not have access to this information
10. Your Coach certification status is available through your nccp.lacrosse.ca account in the Status tab and through the coach.ca website by logging into your locker.
11. Skipping any steps 1 through 7 will only hinder your progress in certification

2022 Competitive Introduction clinic attendees - be sure you have completed AND SUBMITTED your online workbook which is accessible through your nccp.lacrosse.ca account no later than March 1, 2023 to allow time for marking before the season commences.

Thank you for volunteering for your club !

ALA Coaching Certification Requirements: ALA Regulations

MINIMUM COACHING CERTIFICATION STANDARDS FOR COACHES

Anyone on the bench (including people opening and closing doors) must be a ‘certified coach‘ or a certified ‘trainer‘.

There are 3 levels of certification for each coaching level:

• ‘In Training‘ - you have completed the preclinic assessment and are waiting to take clinic or you have taken the clinic and are waiting for your attendance to be marked
• ‘Trained‘ - you have taken the clinic , completed the workbook(if applicable) and it has been successfully marked
• ‘Certified‘ - you have taken the clinic, completed the workbook and a Master Facilitator has completed an ‘in person‘ assessment for you

Coaching Certification Levels

- Head Coaches and Assistant Coaches will be held to the same standard at ALL levels

- If you completed a course last year at the Competitive Introduction level, THEN YOU MUST COMPLETE YOUR COACH WORKBOOK THROUGH YOUR ONLINE COACHING ACCOUNT BY MARCH 31, OR YOU WILL HAVE TO TAKE THE COURSE AGAIN. Due to the volume of workbooks that are submitted each year, it is advisable to complete and submit your online workbook by September 1st of the year you took the clinic to allow enough time for marking before the next season.

- There are three levels of Certification for all courses:

- In Training - means you have completed preclinic and/ or clinic and awaiting attendance to be marked

- Trained - means you have completed the workbook online ( if applicable) following the clinic and it has been reviewed and approved; for Community Initiation and effective 2015 for Community Development, you will receive trained status after completion of the appropriate clinic and attendance is marked.

- Certified - means that in addition to completing the workbook, you have had an ‘in person‘ assessment by a Master Facilitator, and have completed the ‘Making Ethical Decisions‘ online test through the Coaching Association of Canada.( Competitive Introduction level only )

- A first year coach may be ‘In Training‘ (this means you have taken the clinic and are awaiting attendance to be marked ).

- if you are a first year coach at the U7/U9 levels, you need to complete the Community Development.

- if you are a first year coach at the U11 / U13 levels, you need to complete the Community Development clinic

- if you are a new coach at the U15 / U17 levels you must complete the Community Development clinic/level first before you take the Competitive Introduction level; however, you cannot take both these levels in the same year, so you would have to start by taking the Community Development clinic;

- A second year (and beyond) coach must be ‘Trained‘ status (this means you took the clinic with attendance marked, and completed any applicable workbook online and it has been successfully corrected)

- In order to coach a TEAM ALBERTA team, a coach must be ‘Certified‘ which means that a Master Learning Facilitator has completed an ‘in person‘ review and assessment of the coach and they have passed this successfully.

Trainer Certification Levels:

Trainers must be certified with a recognized ‘First Aid Course‘ (ie: St John‘s Ambulance) or can be a registered nurse or doctor.

COACH MENTORING AND DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES

Please refer to the following page for coach mentoring and development resources.