Online Training

Certified Coaches may take online courses to maintain their certification in their respective sports. There is a charge for these courses. Special Olympics does not receive any portion of those charges.

Continuing education credit is approved for all sports by successfully completing the Positive Coaching Alliance's online Double Goal Coach or Second-Goal Parents course. The American Sport Education Program's online Coaching Youth is for sport specific coaches in the following sports: basketball, softball, tennis, volleyball and soccer.

Steps in Purchasing On-line Courses for Continuing Education Credit

1. Coach needs to complete 10 hour practicum with athletes for each sport needing recertification and submit a SOPA Sport Training Application along with the Positive Coach certificate of completion to the Camp Hill office.
2. Estimated time to complete this training is one hour.  In order to receive a certificate, you must receive a passing grade on the quiz.  You may take the quiz more then once if needed. 
3. The cost is $25 to be paid online via a credit card.   Once you log in, you will be given a certain number of days to complete the course.
4. To Get Started go to PCA home page www.positivecoach.org and select either Double-Goal Coach or Second-Goal Parents.  Links are found in orange box in top right corner.
   

American Sport Education Program (ASEP)

1. Coach needs to complete 10 hour practicum with athletes and submit a SOPA Sport Training Application along with the ASEP's certificate of completion to the Camp Hill office.
2. Estimated time to complete this training is six hours.  In order to receive a certificate, you must receive a passing grade on the quiz.  You may take the quiz more then once if needed. 
3. The cost is $19.95 per sport to be paid online via a credit card.   You will receive a book and coaching video.  The sport selections are tennis, basketball, soccer, softball and volleyball.  Once you log in, you will be given six months to complete the course.
4. To Get Started click on the course below and then follow these steps

• scroll down the page to see descriptions of each sport
• click on a sport specific online course
• click on Add to Cart to complete the log in information for a new user. 
• For your information the partnership organization is Special Olympics North America.

ASEP Online Training Course