The Kentucky Recreation and Park Society has teamed up with the National Alliance for Youth Sports to offer the coveted CYSA certification at this year’s conference! Yes, you too can become a Certified Youth Sports Administrator!
The Academy for Youth Sports Administrators is a certification training program designed to raise the professionalism in the field of youth sports. It is a great networking opportunity to meet with other professionals in the youth sports field, as well as discuss solutions to everyday problems that arise while working in youth sports administration. The condensed training format of two half days is unique to this experience at Conference. AND, if you want to save $100 off tuition, read further!
Topics Discussed at the Academy are as follows:
Professional Development
- importance of continuing education, establishing personal & professional goals
- steps needed to help develop a personal plan and mission statement
- ethical behavior, civility and leadership
Youth Sports Philosophy
- why kids participate, why they drop out and what kids want our of play
- how to establish programs that make children’s needs first & involving them
- what positive aspects of youth sports your program teaches and needs to teach
- the National Standards and Recommendations For Communities
Mission Statements
- what role a mission statement can play within an organization
- how to develop a mission statement
- discuss the key or catch phrases that should be a part of any mission statement
- the use of mission statements when marketing and evaluating your programs
- creation of a mission statement and analysis
Policies and Procedures
- develop an effective policies and procedures manual
- essential components for policies and procedures
- how, why and where to use the policies and procedures
- sharing of examples
Screening Volunteers
- why people volunteer and the basic motivators for volunteers
- discuss different personality types and how these types may be matched to work
- importance of establishing a comprehensive screening process for all volunteers
- importance of training, supervision and evaluation of volunteers
Child Abuse Prevention in Youth Sports
- define child abuse in general and specifically in youth sports
- discuss prevention techniques
- reporting issues as well as mandated reporter information
Liability and Insurance
- review terminology used in the insurance industry
- learn what coverage different organizations should have
- how to differentiate between effective and useless insurance policies
- analyze policies and specific youth sports coverages
Promotions
- how to use different forms of promotion effectively
Participants of the Academy for Youth Sports Administrators will identify important Insurance and Risk Management information, recognize useful skills on how to manage parents, volunteers and conflicts, and outline the importance of utilizing policies and procedures as the foundation of their program. They will discuss how to include children with disabilities in sports as the faculty recognizes the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The Academy held in conjunction with the Kentucky Recreation and Park Society will be at the Sloan Convention Center in Bowling Green, KY. The Academy will be held on Monday, November 14 from 1:30-5pm CT and Tuesday, November 15 from 8:30am to Noon CT.
Registrations are taken now! If you’d like to save $100 off of your tuition, use the following code “KRPS100″ when you register at https://www.nays-onlineacademy.org/signup. The normal tuition is $395, so that’s right! You can sign up for just $295, when you use the above code!
” #KRPS11 ” has been adopted as the official event hashtag for the Kentucky Recreation and Park Society’s 2011 Conference and Trade Show “Hometown MVPs,” which meets in Bowling Green, KY in mid-November. Twitter, Facebook, Linked In, and Foursquare users who are participating, visiting and networking at the event are encouraged to share their experience of this annual event by posting with the inclusion of #KRPS11 in their online content.
Hometown MVPs that have set their sights to head to Bowling Green this November for the 2011 
