November 2025
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Exclusive YouTube links for professional coaches:
Chartered Professional Coaches® and Registered Coaches in good standing enjoy access to these tangible benefits:
Liability insurance is necessary to protect yourself when you work outside your regular coaching environment. The CAC provides this insurance package to ChPCs® and Registered Coaches at a discount. The insurance covers paid coaches, unpaid coaches, independent coaches, team leaders, mentors, instructors, and coach developers who may not be insured when working or volunteering with teams, groups, or sanctioned organizations. It also provides additional protection in the event your team or sanctioning body does not have adequate insurance.
Canadian Insurance Brokers Inc. (CIBI) in conjunction with the CAC has formed an exclusive Insurance Program for Coaches across Canada.
ChPC® and Registered Coach:
Class A Sports: $300
Class B Sports: $400
Class C Sports: $500
NCCP Coach:
Class A Sports: $350
Class B Sports: $450
Class C Sports: $575
Coach Developer:
$250
ChPCs® and Registered Coaches have access to an easy-to-use, affordable, and competitive health and dental benefits program. Depending on your coverage needs, you may opt into one of 2 plans.
For more information on how you can join the health and dental benefits program, contact Benefits by Design (BBD).
Option 1 – Cost per Month (plus taxes)
Single: $58.46
Couple: $109.73
Family: $179.78
Option 2 – Cost per Month (plus taxes)
Single: $44.31
Couple: $86.44
Family: $133.92
If you need legal advice pertaining to your coaching activities, including contract review or other disputes, the CAC will connect you with a lawyer and pay for your initial 1 hour consultation. Email procoach@coach.ca.
Gain access at no cost to Canada’s national Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC), one of the largest online collections of sport-related resources. SIRC includes:
Log in to your Locker account to access this service and click on the Professional Coaching tab on the left side of your screen.
Get one of 10 annual licenses to learn French or English, available on a first-come, first-served basis. These licenses are rotated among interested coaches.
If interested, please email procoach@coach.ca.
The CAC has teamed with Sterling Talent Solutions to provide an online criminal record check process at a low price of $25 (+tax) per applicant. The Enhanced Police Information Check (E-PIC) provides a secure database to store and share results, manage renewals, and track the progress of individual checks. To reduce your costs, you can share your check with the CAC as well as the organization with which you are coaching.
$25(+tax)
Regular price is $60 (+tax)
ChPC® and Registered Coaches are eligible for FACE program grants. The National Sport Organization’s nominate candidates across Canada who would benefit the most from a grant. Then, a committee made up of representatives from Petro‑Canada™, the Canadian Olympic Committee, the Canadian Paralympic Committee and the Coaching Association of Canada choose the recipients.
ChPC® and Registered Coaches are eligible for the CAC National Awards Program.
Petro-Canada Sport Leadership Awards Gala
Update is the CAC’s Professional Coaching program newsletter, emailed four times a year. It normally includes three sections: a topical webinar, professional coaching highlights, and a featured service.
Because professional development is a valuable component of coaching excellence, the CAC has assembled a series of webinars sourced from a range of experts in the fields of sport and human leadership and management. ChPCs® and Registered Coaches have exclusive access to these webinars anytime, anywhere by logging in to your Locker account and clicking on the Resources tab.
The CAC will provide various Professional Development opportunities exclusive to ChPC® and Registered Coaches. Examples from the past are PD opportunities in Coach House at the Canada Games, and Mental Health webinar series for Professional Coaches.
As a Chartered Professional Coach (ChPC®), we encourage you to proudly showcase these logos in your email signature or on your social media profiles.
If you have any questions regarding the Professional Coaching Program (Chartered Professional Coaches® and Registered Coaches) please contact procoach@coach.ca