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There are over 20 million volunteers in the parks and recreation field across the USA, of those only 3 million are volunteer coaches
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Resource Centre (SIRC)
180 Elgin Street, Suite 1400
Ottawa, Ontario
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Tel.: +1 (613) 231-7472
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Fax: +1 (613) 231-3739
www.sirc.ca
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Volunteers
Recruiting, selection, references, training, recognition and retention is just as important with volunteers as it would be with paid employees. Often recruiting volunteers is a major hurdle faced by organizations. Why not try looking at the older or younger generations for a new pool of recruits? It is important to remember a proper background check is essential when someone wants to volunteer and this becomes critical when they will be working with children. Don’t forget this vital step just because the labour is free. Finally, work with your volunteers to ensure they have enough training. This will also help determine what keeps them motivated and happy, ensuring they continue to volunteer with your organization.
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Recruitment
As school sporting programs continue to rely more and more on parents and volunteers and less on teaching staff, this article will look at how to go about recruiting, selecting and preparing a parent/volunteer to take on a coaching role within a school sporting program. As my fellow Sport Coordinators will attest, finding coaches to work with their school sporting teams is a very difficult job, but finding quality coaches is even harder.
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Supplementary Article: Motivation
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Volunteer Coaches
To make volunteer coaches a positive experience for everyone and not a hassle, the key is to be cautious, yet optimistic. Although they do provide you with free labor, they cannot be treated as invisible employees. Hiring, orientation, and training procedures still need to be followed-both to ensure their success and reduce liability concerns.
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Supplementary Article: Training Volunteer Coaches |
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Attract & Keep Talented Volunteers
Volunteering is an important component of our society. It is definitely an integral part of our Association and you are proof of that fact! Being creative when attracting volunteers, providing good working conditions and attracting more volunteers (so that they do not get over-worked) are implications that your club must encourage at all times.
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Supplementary Article: Recruit, Retain, Recognize |
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Background Check
The first step in an effective screening program is to understand that not everyone needs to be screened. Not every position within an organization poses the same degree of risk of harm to vulnerable members. Only those positions of trust and authority that involve unsupervised contact with minors require screening. The organization's policies should identify these positions and thus succinctly state who is subject to screening and who is not. It may very well be that after completing the analysis of that risk, only a handful of positions truly require screening.
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Supplementary Article: Trust Your Instincts
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Older Volunteers
A profile of sport volunteers suggests that older adults (65 years and older) are not part of the current "recruitment niche” in community sport. The typical sport volunteer is younger (35 to 44 years), male, employed full-time, with young dependents at home, and became involved through his or her child's participation in the sport. In light of this narrow sport volunteer profile, older adults may be "a new source of experience" to enhance the community sport volunteer workforce.
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Supplementary Article: Younger Youth Volunteers
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News from SIRC |
Join the FUN and register for the SIRC City Race!!
The SIRC City Race is an event in which teams of two people from an organization, club or team, race around downtown Ottawa in competition with other teams. Participants strive to complete the task at each Pit Stop and arrive at the final destination by a certain time.
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Friday September 17, 2010 |
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11:00am to 1:00pm |
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Vote Now! Capture the Moment -Photo Contest!
Thank you to everyone that submitted photos, we received lots of great photos. Vote for your favourite sport photo today!
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Ask A SIRC Librarian |
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SIRC members have access to SIRC librarians and we are pleased to share some of your questions.
Dear SIRC Librarian:
Are there online courses for dragon boat coaching and are there manuals for dragon boat coaching?
Thank you,
Robert,
NSW, Australia
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