Become a community coach
Delivering sport and other structured physical activities
Many people become community coaches and deliver for the AASC program, including teachers, senior secondary or tertiary students, parents, sports club members, activity providers and even medal winning Paralympians.
If you or your organisation is interested in delivering sport and other structured physical activities for the AASC program you must satisfactorily meet registration requirements.
Requirements are:
- completion of the AASC Community Coach Training Program (See below);
- submission of a Probationary registration form (See below); and
- satisfactory completion of a National criminal history police check/working with children check (See below)
If successfully registered, all community coaches are subject to a probationary period of six months. During the six month probationary period all community coaches will be required to undertake and satisfactorily complete a practical assessment to gain full registration.
Community Coach Training Program
The Australian Sports Commission has developed the Community Coach Training Program (CCTP) for community coaches of the AASC program. The five CCTP modules are as follows:
- Active After-school Communities program overview
- Communication and Behaviour Management
- Safe Environments
- Nutrition and Well-being
- Planning, Preparing, Delivering and Reviewing Playing for Life activity sessions
Total Duration 11.0 hours
Courses are conducted by AASC regional coordinators in every state, in many locations. (See CCTP training dates below)
If you want to gain credit for Modules 1-4 of the CCTP you can complete the FREE online course - the Beginning Coaching General Principles course
Become a community coach
- Community coach brochure (
PDF - 817.2 kb)
- Community coach brochure - A4 print out ( PDF - 152.1 kb)
CCTP information
- CCTP fact sheet (
MS Word Document - 842.5 kb)
CCTP training dates
Please contact state administrators for details on courses in Northern Territory and Tasmania (See Contacts above).- NSW/ACT training calendar ( PDF - 90.5 kb)
- SA training calendar ( PDF - 93.1 kb)
- WA training calendar ( PDF - 55.4 kb)
- Qld training calendar ( PDF - 53.6 kb)
- Vic (regional) training calendar ( PDF - 96.0 kb)
- Vic (metro) training calendar ( PDF - 40.9 kb)
National criminal history record checks
This form is used by the Australian Sports Commission as part of the Community Coach registration process.The general form or the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander form can be used for checks with prospective Aborigianal and/or Torres Strait Islander community coaches.
Unless statutory obligations require otherwise, the information provided on the form will not be used without your prior consent for any purpose other than in relation to the assessment of your suitability.
- National criminal history record check consent form (editable) ( MS Word Document - 813.5 kb)
- NCHRC Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consent form (editable) ( MS Word Document - 336.0 kb)
- National criminal history record check consent form ( PDF - 169.0 kb)
- NCHRC Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ( PDF - 161.5 kb)
Probationary registration forms
The NSW Probationary Registration Application Form does not allow for a temporary exemption on police checks, whereas the standard application form allows for this temporary exemption across other states.
- Probationary registration application (editable) ( MS Word Document - 2.1 mb)
- Probationary registration application ( PDF - 104.1 kb)
- Recognition of organisation application (editable) ( MS Word Document - 805.0 kb)
- Recognition of organisation application ( PDF - 90.2 kb)
