Resources
Free Educational Resources
The Free Educational Resources is an electronic tool kit designed to provide youth sports stakeholders with information, products and services for the best and most current resources and to assist our “Child Development through Youth Sports” approach. Most of these resources are free and a few involve fees – please choose carefully and select those that best serve your organization.
Safety/Injury Prevention/Emergency Care
Minnesota Department of Health - Asthma Training for Coaches Online Course
This site offers tips on what coaches, athletic directors, PE staff and athletic trainers need to know about asthma and their players.
Center for Disease Control - Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports
To help ensure the health and safety of young athletes, CDC developed the Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports initiative to offer information about concussions to coaches, parents, and athletes involved in youth sports. The Heads Up initiative provides important information on preventing, recognizing, and responding to a concussion.
Mayo Clinic - Dehydration and Youth Sports: Curb the Risk
The Mayo Clinic staff explain that children don’t adapt as well as adults do to exercise in hot, humid weather. They produce more heat, sweat less and may be less likely to drink enough fluids during exercise — all of which increase the risk of dehydration. Understand how heat-related problems happen and know how to prevent them.
America College of Sports Medicine Reach Website
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recently launched their ACSM REACH website to help parents, coaches, health care providers, educators and others find credible, expert-reviewed information on youth sport and health.
Sports Safety
The website promotes the importance of injury prevention and safety on all levels of youth sports through education and research. The NCSS focuses on decreasing the number and/or severity of injuries through developing and teaching sports safetycourses and collecting, analyzing and researching injury data.
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
Program: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse in Youth-Serving Organizations
Youth-serving organizations play an essential role in promoting child health and well-being, and partnering with them can further develop the resources needed to support child abuse prevention efforts.