AYSO makes a commitment to provide a safe place for children to play and compete. The coach has a responsibility to help make the environment safe, as well as fun. To ensure the safety of both children and volunteers, each volunteer is required to take a short in-person or online-training session called Safe Haven™. It focuses on safety and appropriate behavior with children as well as first aid and other on-field issues. Agreeing to a background check is also required for each volunteer.

Further, for the safety of all players, it is important that any way of identifying players be strictly avoided. Per AYSO Uniform guidelines, "No AYSO uniform may bear a team member’s name (i.e. Johnny Jones)". This also means only first names OR player numbers should be put on banners.

The Safe Haven Online Class can be found at http://www.aysotraining.org/.

Follow these steps to access and take the course:

1) Log-in with your AYSO ID and Last Name
2) Click Online Courses
3) Select Safe Haven Courses

All Coach Volunteers are required to complete this class as per the volunteer requirements.

Please contact [email protected] or [email protected] for assistance.