![]() ![]() PCA offers interactive online courses and has thousands of multimedia tips and tools for coaches, parents, athletes, and leaders available free of charge on. Since its founding in 1998, PCA has established 18 chapters nationwide, partnered with roughly 3,500 schools and youth sports organizations to deliver more than 20,000 live group workshops, reaching 19.2 million youth. Youth Sports Organizations & Schools see their cultures become more positive and everyone involved has more fun.Coaches become more positive and increase their focus on using sports to teach life lessons.Youth experience improved life skills and character development.PCA ensures sports are ‘done right’ with programming that is research-based and designed to have an impact at three levels in a youth sports organization or school: ![]() Research has shown that in order for youth to accrue these benefits from sports, sports needs to be done in a way that creates a positive youth development culture. Youth sports currently involves 40M children, which presents a tremendous platform on which to develop youth character and life skills. Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) is a national non-profit organization with the mission of creating a positive, character-building youth sports environment that results in BETTER ATHLETES, BETTER PEOPLE. “We look forward to sharing the ideas and resources of the PCA with the coaches of our youth sports programs.”įor information about this partnership, please contact either Ryan Virtue (PCA-Cleveland) or Betsy Drenski (City of North Olmsted Parks & Recreation). “We are extremely excited to collaborate with the Positive Coaching Alliance as the North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Department programs mission mirrors that of the PCA,” said Betsy Drenski, Commissioner of North Olmsted Parks & Recreation. “Many coaches and youth sports organizational leaders have never received any sort of formal training outside of skills and drills so we look forward to injecting some of our sport and educational psychology and organizational behavior research and best practices.” “We are excited to partner with the City of North Olmsted and thankful they are taking a proactive approach to elevate the youth sports culture in their community,” Said PCA-Cleveland Partnership and Development Manager, Ryan Virtue. PCA has partnered with roughly 3,500 schools, districts, conferences, youth sports organizations and park-and-rec departments to create a Development Zone® culture, where the goal is using youth and high school sports to develop stronger social-emotional learning and leadership and reasoning developmental opportunities. The partnership provides the city’s coaches with access to PCA’s training, tools and resources for coaches, sports parents, youth athletes and administrators through live group workshops, online courses, books by PCA Founder Jim Thompson and additional online resources. The City of North Olmsted Parks & Recreation Department has created a new partnership with the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), a national non-profit movement developing “Better Athletes, Better People” by working to provide all youth and high school athletes a positive, character-building sports experience. ![]()
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