COACHING CERTIFICATION

. Reduce Your Liability . Increase Player Safety . Protect Your Investment . Involve Your Parents . Improve Safety Awareness

You can do all of this by enrolling your coaches and any interested parent in our Coach's Certification course which is good for one year from the date of completion and easily renewed.  The 1.5-hour module we have developed using current insurance industry guidelines is presented at a facility of your choosing by CSI's Lead Instructor in conjunction with Brad Ross from Riddell.  The instruction focuses on the safety and risk management issues listed below, which are subject to civil action.

Protect your players.  Protect your coaches and organization.  Consider what could happen if you don't.

• Coaches as Guides

• Code of Ethics

• Reducing Head and Spine Injures

• Fluid Replacement

• Symptoms of Heat Illness

• Football Injures and How to Prevent Them

• Emergency Action Plan for Practice and Games

• Player Safety and Equipment Fitting

• Getting to Know Your Players and Parents

• Managing Football Parents

• Understanding Today's Player

• What Kind of Coach Are You?

• Why Do Kids Quit?

• Hazing and the Effects of Hazing 

• Coaching Third String Athletes

• Sportsmanship -- On and Off the Field

• Lightning Safety

• Annual Survey of Football Injury Research

• Minimizing Liability Risk in Football

• What Is Child Abuse?

• Role of the Head Coach

• Non-biased Player Evaluations

• Red and Gold Units

• Conditioning and Strength Training

• Dealing with Officials

Programs currently using CSI Certification.  (A roster of each team's certified coaches is located at the link.)

• Adelanto Saints
• Apple Valley Knights

	"I highly recommend this class to anyone  who coaches football.  It can truly make  a difference in a kid's life." Les Strodes, Commissioner High Desert Youth Football and Cheer Conference
	"We believe that CSI's class on proper  safety procedures should be mandatory  for all youth football coaches.  It's no  longer a game when a child is seriously injured."
	"We're honored to be the the first  conference to have our coaches  certified by CSI Football."

"Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise."
Proverbs 9:20