American Sport Education Program: A Division of Human Kinetics

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• Who Wants to Coach?
• What Do You Say to "Problem" Parents?
• Manage Your Risk
• Event-Planning Tips From the Experts

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To be an effective youth sport program director, you need to know a little about everything. Finance. Human resources. Risk management. Marketing. Event planning. ASEP's Directing Youth Sports Programs online course is your vehicle for putting that knowledge into practice by giving you the tools you need to get the job done.

In this course you will learn how to develop

• policies for a youth sports program, based on the program's philosophy (unit 1);
• an approach for recruiting, selecting, and managing coaches (unit 2);
• an approach for managing parents (unit 3);
• a risk-management plan (unit 4);
• an approach for managing finances, including obtaining additional funding (unit 5); and
• a plan for an event (unit 6).

Included with this online course is the text, Directing Youth Sports Programs, written by Rainer Martens, PhD, founder of the American Sport Education Program (ASEP). The course includes more than 50 electronic forms and practice exercises that you can use as-is or modify to your needs. It also includes a Sport Event Planner, an indispensable tool to guide you through the process of planning youth sport events.

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