Volunteer Requirements / Risk Management:

Every BENSC volunteer, including all board members, team managers and coaches MUST complete 3 requirements in order to volunteer for the club.  This is a statewide mandate, not just for Bennington Soccer Club. 

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BENSC and Nebraska State Soccer are now using Player's Health to track every volunteers completion of the 3 requirements.   Concussion training and SafeSport training need to be completed every calendar year.  The background check, now needs to be completed every 2 years, per the updated NSS policies.

The soccer calendar year starts in the Fall and continues through the Spring season.  So if you complete the 3 requirements before the fall season you will be done until the following fall season, you do not need to complete again for the spring season.  When the requirements expire, to the day, you should get an email notification from Player's Health.

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The Risk Management requirements of all coaches and club personnel include a cleared background check (every 2 years), annual concussion training, and annual completion of SafeSport Training. Until these requirements are met coaches and club personnel should not participate with youth participants in any capacity.

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First step, you must volunteer for the role in Sports Connect. Then you will need to wait for an email from Player's Health to be able to log into your account.  This email could take 1-3 days to receive.  The email will provide the coach with a link to start the Risk Management/volunteer requirements process through Player's Health.  Please check your junk folder if you do not see it in your inbox. This email will contain the link to access your Players Health volunteer requirements.  Please allow time for delivery of email.  Molly from NSS will have to manually load alll volunteers into the system to receive the email and during the busy season this could take multiple days to complete.

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Three Requirements ALL volunteers need to complete:

1. Background Check  

All coaches must complete a background check - This registration process takes about 5 minutes, and permits Nebraska State Soccer to run a background check.

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2. Concussion Management Training 

Once you have completed the course through the Player's Health/CDC Train website you will receive a certificate.  This certificate should be automatically uploaded to your Player's Health profile.

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3. SafeSport 

The entire training does not need to be completed in the same sitting. You are able to save and return to the training after completing each 30 minute module. 

Starting Fall 2019, coaches who had already taken the initial 90 minute (3 module) training, will only be required to take a 20 minute refresher training each year.

Player's Health should automatically take you to the SafeSport modules.  If not you can click on the Sign-In button (top right corner, and then click the Register button. When setting up your profile, choose U.S. Soccer, please enter the following code: 

YC3E-6P5G-YYIL-CS2M. 

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www.safesport.org

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SafeSport Frequently Asked Questions

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**The Nebraska State Soccer website provides more info and help documents on how to complete these requirements.  Please click on the link below to be taken to their website.  Click on the "Coaches" tab.  You can then click on "Background Check", "SafeSport Training" and "Heads Up Concussion Certificate".

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https://www.nebraskastatesoccer.org/

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