NCYS Executive Director on Voice of America
Listen to Executive Director Sally Johnson's Voice of America radio interview titled Keeping Kids Safe from Predators in Youth Sports on on Jim Meier's show called Championship Thinking. It's a one hour interview with four 15-minute segments.
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The NCYS Helps Keep Youth Sports Safe

NCYS - An Untiring Advocate for the Protection of Children

The National Council of Youth Sports (NCYS) - long known for tackling the big issues in youth sports - is an untiring advocate for the protection of children, and for eradicating criminal behavior in our organizations as well as society in order to make a positive difference for children of all backgrounds, genders, and economic diversities. In the spirit of keeping children safe by preventing, recognizing, and responding to situations both on and off the playing field, we hope all those who serve children will take on a responsible call to action to protect the children in youth-serving organizations and keep them safe.

Background Screening

National Center for Safety Initiatives

National Center for Safety Initiatives (NCSI) is the country's leading resource for background screening services for non-profit and youth serving organizations. NCSI was created in cooperation with the National Council of Youth Sports with the mission of eradicating harm and protecting organizations from loss and is 100% focused on helping organizations who serve Non-Profits, Youth and Vulnerable Populations.

NCSI is the choice of many of the greatest, most reputable sports organizations in the world including the United States Olympic Committee. The comprehensive background screening programs offered by NCSI have saved thousands of people from harm and millions of dollars in losses to organizations. NCSI is the only background screening company endorsed by National Council of Youth Sports and licensed to use their Recommended Guidelines (below).
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NCYS Recommended Guidelines for Background Check Screening

The NCYS Recommended Guidelines for Background Check Screening in Nonprofit Youth-Serving Organizations© were created to assist those responsible for the children in youth programs to no longer have to reinvent the wheel of minimum standards for policies, procedures, and best practices.
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KidSafe Photographer (YSPNC)

The Youth Sports Photography Network Connection (YSPNC.org) is a photo industry network of committed professionals as well as national and international photography associations. YSPNC.org is a unique positive environment that will increase awareness of key issues, and create the opportunity for involvement and participation to increase the safety and protection of all our youth athletes and students.

The YSPNC KidSafe Photographer initiative holds active members to a high standard of character, a dedication to solid business ethics, a commitment to protect all youth, and the most recognized criminal background screening program in America.
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Recommended Providers

PSPN/PREFERRED Therapy Providers

Preferred Sports Provider Network (PSPN) is a network of contracted physical and occupational therapy practices who offer sports enhancement and injury prevention services at a discount. PSPN was created to bring awareness to the proactive athletic services their physical therapy practices provide and to share in the message of sports wellness and excellence.

PSPN is a service of PREFERRED Therapy Providers, Inc., the largest rehabilitation network of its kind, representing private practice physical, occupational, and speech therapists throughout the country by contracting on their behalf with PPOs, Health Plans, and Third Party Payors.
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Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports

To help ensure the health and safety of young athletes, CDC developed the Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports initiative to offer information about concussions to coaches, parents, and athletes involved in youth sports. The Heads Up initiative provides important information on preventing, recognizing, and responding to a concussion.

The CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and its "Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports" tool kit materials have been produced with the input from many youth sports/youth-serving organizations to educate themselves and others about sports-related concussions.
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Other Resources

The Diana Screen®

www.dianascreen.com
The Diana Screen® is a risk management tool that through an online test helps to identify those men and women who should not be placed into positions of trust with children because they present a sexual risk: either because they have already sexually abused a child or they have a very weak understanding of the strict sexual boundaries required between adults and children.

NATA's Youth Sports Safety Alliance

www.youthsportssafetyalliance.org
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the catastrophic athletic injuries and illnesses among young athletes in the United States, the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) has spearheaded the Alliance to Address the Youth Sports Safety Crisis in America with a call to action addressing youth sports-related musculoskeletal and neurological injuries (concussion, heat illness, and ACL). See NCYS Letter of Endorsement [PDF]. With the support of 29 other leading health care and sports organizations, they are raising awareness about youth sports safety and promoting legislation to improve health care for young athletes.