As a volunteer at the YMCA, you have an opportunity to positively influence the development of youth and shape and support your community.
Thank you for volunteering as a Y coach or youth sports official. We want to help you have the best season ever, and so we have created the online training resources listed below. These eLearnings describe the Y’s philosophy on youth sports; offer basic coaching techniques, including practice plans, skills, drills, rules, and tactics; and outline valuable volunteer resources.
Fall 2024 Basketball Resources
Practice Plans
Although the practice plans may have a different age groups specified, we recommend using these practice plans for the age groups indicated on the buttons below.
Coach Training
Screening and Trainings
Volunteer Coach Screening and Training Requirements
- Complete and Clear a National Background Check (5 Minutes)
- You will receive an email and/or text from Verified First with instructions on how to complete. The subject line will read, “YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit Background Questionnaire Notification”
- This invitation will expire in 2 days
- Complete your online training modules through Great Academy (approx. 2 hours)
- You will receive an email invitation from Great Academy (noreply@greatacademy.efrontlearning.com) Subject Line: “Welcome to the course (Detroit) Coaching YMCA Youth Sports.”
- Follow the prompts to setup your account and follow the Youth Sports Coach Training Curriculum assigned:
- Abuse Risk Management for Volunteers
- Athlete Protection
- Concussion in Youth Sports
- Coaching YMCA Youth Sports
- Submit three references using Checkster (15 minutes)
- You will receive an email from “Ty’Ann Holmes via Checkster <no-reply@checkster.com>” with the subject line “References request from YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit”
- Follow the prompts to create an account. Keep this information, this is how you can monitor progress of your reference checks.
- We require that you invite (by email) a minimum of 3 references. In addition to supervisors, you may also invite your peers, subordinates, clients, and/or professors.
- Your references should plan to take roughly 5-10 minutes to complete the Checkster form and they will be submitted directly to the YMCA HR department.
Additional Training Resources
The YMCA has developed some tremendous trainings to help you be as successful as you can as a coach. These training sessions are not mandatory, but highly recommended if you are new to coaching at the YMCA, new to coaching, or are new to coaching a specific sport. You work at your own pace on these training sessions, so please enjoy! Click Here!