NEMAC for Youth Sports
From practice to travel tournaments, NEMAC gives leagues, clubs, and teams the protocols that protect players from harm and coaches from career-ending accusations.
Get certifiedMost youth coaches are volunteers giving their evenings to other people's kids. They deserve a system that protects them as fiercely as it protects the players — because a single accusation, true or false, ends a coaching career either way.
NEMAC's two-deep standard means there is simply never a private moment: not at practice, not in the dugout, not in the parking lot with the last kid waiting for a ride, not in a hotel hallway at a travel tournament.
Two screened adults at every practice and game. The last player waiting for a ride waits with two adults — never one.
Dugouts, equipment rooms, and training areas stay visible: doors open, sight lines clear.
A coach never drives a player alone. Carpools follow the written-permission rule.
Players room with players, adults with adults. No adult is ever alone in a room with an unrelated minor.
All communication runs through the team app with parents included — no private coach-player messaging, ever.
Practice ends and one eleven-year-old's mother is twenty minutes away. The coach, wanting to help, sends his assistant home and drives the boy himself. The parents are grateful. A neighbor sees the boy getting out of the coach's car alone and mentions it to a team parent, wondering aloud if that happens often.
Consider: The coach did a kind thing — so what is the problem? What do the late-pickup and transportation protocols cost, and what do they prevent?
Leagues can certify every team under one membership. Ask about league-wide pricing.
The NEMAC Youth Organizations Workbook contains your sector's full protocols, scenarios, and the open-book certification test for every staff member and volunteer. Membership keeps your accreditation, directory listing, and decal active — and ships your window decal automatically on completion.
Buy the workbook · $49 Team training tiers Membership · $24/mo