Team Staff Certification Requirements

MTK team staff must have the following certifications complete prior to the first league game of the season.  All online portions or certtifications must be completed prior to the first practice.
 

HEO BENCH & ON-ICE STAFF CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Division	Category	Head Coach	Assistant Coach	Trainer
U10, U11	B/A/AA Competitive	Coach 2-Coach Level Trained (2)	Coach 2-Coach Level Trained (2)	HTCP Level 1 (6)
U12,U13, U14, U15, U16, U18	B/A/AA Competitive	Development 1 Trained (3)	Development 1 Trained (3)	HTCP Level 2 (7

 

These are the requirements laid out by HEO, you can see more information on the HEO website.

Manager Certification

The information below outlines the REQUIRED courses/requirements for the level of hockey you will be a trainer. For more information, check the HEO Website.

• Respect in Sport for Activity Leaders

• Gender Identity Online Training

ALL Team Staff, Trainers & Managers require a Vulnerable Sector Check (valid for 3 years) Letter here
Submit application through here

Trained Status vs. Certified Status

The NCCP distinguishes between "trained" and "certified" status. Understanding this distinction is important for hockey coaches. The combination of the level you coach and the position you hold determines if you are required to be trained or certified.

The primary distinction between these two statuses is as follows:
• Certified status requires a coach to attend a specific NCCP clinic and then be evaluated on their demonstated ability to perform within their choosen coaching context.
• Trained status, however, does not require evaluation. The coach must only attend the specific NCCP clinic.
Development 1 and High Performance 1 are the two coaching contexts in HEO that have a certification path and for both the evaluation component is based on a written assignment and practical, field assessment.

NCCP Coaches are described as being one of the following:
In Training - while you are completing the training components
Trained - once you have completed all the training components
Certified - once you have completed all the training and evaluation components

 

Equivalencies

The chart below shows the history of name changes to coach certification levels and provides the equivalencies of today's levels to previous levels.

1980’s	2000's	2014..
Initiation Program	Intro Coach	Coach 1 – Intro Coach
Coach Level 1 and 2	Coach Stream	Coach 2 – Coach Level
Coach Level 3	Intermediate	Development 1
Coach Level 4	Advanced 1	High Performance 1
Coach Level 5	Advanced 2	High Performance 2

 

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