Train your coaches
The single most important action a youth sports organization can
take to enhance its program is to train its volunteer coaches.
Encourage
your organization to train their coaches.
A Parent Orientation Program and also Criminal
Background Checks are now
available.
Coaches are teacher and can have a profound effect on the
kids they coach. You have a special opportunity to mold their
lives.
Pledge
to be alcohol,
tobacco and drug free in the presence of your players. The links
below provide nine weeks of topics to discuss with your players.
Click on the related web site. These are excellent sites for
you and your players to check out.
Top 5 Resources:
How to talk to kids about drugs. (Page 2 - a must for every coach)
Coaches "do's and don'ts" against drugs
The good Sportsman quiz
What does it cost to smoke cigarettes? How much over a lifetime?
Top 5 reasons to stay in school.
Week 1: Positive Choices and Respect For All.
Peer Pressure: Making the right decisions
Teaching respect
How to keep kids from talking back
Teaching children not to talk back
Week 2: Good Sportsmanship- Play Fair and Be Honest.
The good Sportsman quiz
Teaching kids to tell the truth
4 point plan to telling the truth
Week 3: Using Drugs- A Quick Way To Ruin Your Athletic Career...And Your Life!
How to talk to kids about drugs.
Information on drugs by name, slang, image and paraphernalia
Coaches "do's and don'ts" against drugs
Facts Sheets to help you educate - in English and Spanish
Answer teens questions about marijuana
Can marijuana impair short-term memory?
How likely is a teen to smoke marijuana?
Tips for Teens: The Truth About Marijuana
What's Up With Marijuana?
Steroids: Play Safe, Play Fair
What Steroids Can Do To You?
Common Sports Nutrition Myths
More Information on Steroids
Steroids: Just the Facts
What's up with cocaine and crack?
Short and long-term effects of Cocaine
The first time can kill
Tips for Teens: The Truth About Inhalants
Inhalants are Nothing to Sniff At
What's Up With Methamphetamine?
Story of 14 year old dying from huffing "Dust Off" is no urban legend. Week 4: Alcohol & Athletes Don't Mix!
Young Teens Place for Info on Alcohol (Quiz)
Is your teen drinking?
Sobering facts about alcohol poisoning
Tips for Teens: The Truth About Alcohol
Scared Sober!! - CAUTION not for young children! This is hard hitting New Zealand public service ad
on YouTube Week 5: Smart Athletes Don't Smoke!
Steroids: Play Safe, Play Fair
What Steroids Can Do To You?
Common Sports Nutrition Myths
More Information on Steroids
Steroids: Just the Facts
TIPS 4 Youth-Facts About Smoking For Coaches (529 KB) PDF file
What should you know about tobacco.
What harmful chemicals are in cigarettes?
What does it cost to smoke cigarettes? How much over a lifetime?
Tips for coaches anti-smoking fun soccer activities
Smokeless Tobacco - even without smoke there is danger.
Coach Dan's Chalk Talk About Tobacco
Cause of Deaths - Why You Don't Want to Smoke.
Smokeless tobacco...Not a good idea
Dipping, Snuff and chewing tobacco...can kill!
Nicotine Addiction Test
Week 6: Gangs and Violence Lead Nowhere.
Why do kids join gangs?
Youth gang prevention and intervention
The history of gangs
Week 7: Stay In School and Do Your Homework.
Top 5 reasons to stay in school.
Why do kids drop out of school?
Tips on doing homework and great study habits
Additional information on how to get your kids to do their homework
Week 8: Summary
More information on making positive choices
Teaching kids good sportsmanship To suggest other sites or report broken links, please
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