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- Establish a mentorship program that helps women coaches find a path to club-level, provincial, and high-performance positions.
- Pair young coaches with senior counterparts to discuss related support pathways and to offer psychosocial support.
Learn more about the Female Coach Mentorship Model
- Provide coaching staff with child care.
- Ensure that women coaches maintain contact and remain involved with their sport organization during maternity or other types of leave.
- Permit women to ramp down to shorter hours or offer co-coaching opportunities to share coaching roles, and give them the flexibility to tend to family matters.
- Provide babysitting services during major competitions and training camps.
- Support babies accompanying their coach mothers to practices, competitions, and training camps with appropriate child care.
- Encourage young women athletes to consider coaching, support them with mentorship, and be upfront about the issues they may face, in particular child care.
- Provide financial incentives to make a coaching career feasible.
- Create and promote opportunities for women coaches.
- Find better avenues to bring more young women into coaching.
- Promote the benefits that high-performance sport offers to the greater community.
- End the divisive mentality that pits government against government, be it federal, provincial/territorial, or municipal.
- Offer flexible arrival and departure times.
- Offer co-coaching positions.
- Offer longer-term contracts to create stable work conditions.
- Limit active coaching time to 20 hours a week so that coaches can work on their NCCP certification and handle their administrative responsibilities.
- Change the traditional structure and hold mid-day practices.
- Guarantee that coaches are qualified, well organized, and paid commensurate with their skill level.
- Support organizations that support their coaches.
- Provide coaches with travel credits.
- Run coaching workshops with female NCCP Master Coach Developers and NCCP Learning Facilitators.
- Introduce business training to the NCCP.
- Publicize the Women in Coaching programs to a much greater extent particularly the Grants and Funding that are available.
- Develop and market a seminar that addresses the emotional and practical issues faced by women coaches who return to work.
- Tell the stories of women coaches to show that it is acceptable to have children and coach.
- Provide coaches with the opportunity to interact with other coaches at symposiums and clinics.