Club Resources
AIS Club Development Resources
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), together with the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) have developed a suit of services and resources to support clubs.
Click to launch the AIS Club Development web portal.
Resources include: Club Health Check; Governance Resources; Culture and Leadership; Decision Making; Planning; administration and more.
Play by the Rules
Play by the Rules provides information, resources, tools and free online training to increase the capacity and capability of administrators, coaches, officials, players, parents and spectators to assist them in preventing and dealing with discrimination, harassment, child safety, inclusion and integrity issues in sport.
You can access play by the rules by clicking here.
Play by the Rules provides a range of services and resources including templates for the development of: Member Protection Policies; Code of Conduct/ Behavior; Social Media Policies; Alcohol Policies, Communication Policies; Inclusion Policies; Selection Policies and more
Child Safe Sport
Snow Australia and its affiliated Clubs and Pathway Programs are collectively a Child Friendly sport with several important polices that are implemented throughout our sport as part of our commitment to promoting the safety and wellbeing of children. We will communicate and encourage affiliated members to review their culture, processes and practices against the Child Safety Standards and make any changes that are required moving forward.
For more information and club resources, click here.
Concussion Management Guidelines
The concussion guidelines aim to provide information and advice for non-medical people who are involved with skiing and snowboarding at any level.
These guidelines apply to the care of snowsports participants from beginners and intermediates through to recreational experts and sub-elite or elite competitors. Everyone’s brain is equally important and deserves the benefit of concussion management according to current international scientific guidelines.
Snow Australia has partnered with the HeadSmart Sports Concussion Programme, an organisation that provides sports concussions solutions from the grassroot levels up to the elite. Recognised as one of the world's leading sports concussion programmes, HeadSmart educates and baseline screens participants.
You can view the rest of the Concussion Management Guidelines and information on HeadSmart here.
Clearinghouse for Sport (18/5/18)
The Clearinghouse for Sport (Clearinghouse) brings together Australia’s leading sport and active recreation agencies. These agencies are working through the Clearinghouse—using the Australian Sports Commission as
the principal information coordination point—to share knowledge and insights about sport, human performance, and increasing the levels of physical activity within our communities.
Access the Clearinghouse here
The Clearinghouse works to:
- Identify and acquire information of relevance to the Australian sport and active recreation sectors;
- Connect people in sport and active recreation with complementary expertise;
- Inform Australian sport practitioners (such as athletes, coaches, physical educators, scientists, medical providers, researchers, administrators, students, facility managers, policy makers, volunteers, and sporting officials) about good and promising practice in sport and active recreation;
- Provide Australian governments at all levels with comprehensive and policy relevant analysis of research relating to sport and active recreation, and its value to the community; and,
- Provide Clearinghouse members with high quality information on sport, physical activity and active recreation.
Clearinghouse Sports Club Development Resource
AIS Pathways and Development
Launch the AIS FTEM Online Resource
FTEM - Foundations | Talent | Elite | Mastery - Pathways
We all participate in sport for many different reasons:
- some are interested in maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle;
- others love the thrill of competing with their friends; and
- a rare few set their sights on winning medals for their country.
Whatever the motivation, we are on a pathway, although sometimes the pathway chooses us.
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) has developed the Foundations, Talent, Elite and Mastery framework (FTEM framework) to capture these different pathways.
FTEM integrates three key outcomes of sport participation:
- active lifestyle;
- sport participation; and
- sport excellence.
By categorising the key features of a sportsperson or athlete within each of these pathways, we can encapsulate the relevant research and expectations of athletes throughout their sporting journey.
It also provides practical methods to assist sport stakeholders managing an athlete's career and those who work in developing sport systems.
This enhanced understanding of sporting pathways will help us to improve the experiences of more people, at more levels of the pathway, more often.
Who can use the FTEM framework?
The FTEM framework is a practical planning and review tool for a broad range of sporting stakeholders including:
- parents
- teachers
- clubs
- coaches
- sports science and sports medicine personnel and
- national and state sporting organisations.
Underpinning all of this love for sport and physical activity is physical literacy - a key element to any child's development with sport.
Top 10 Tips for Parents: AIS FTEM Framework
MyAISbasecamp
Coming soon to Snow Australia Pathway Programs
Launch to the myAISbasecamp web site
myAISbasecamp – AIS – anywhere, anytime!
myAISbasecamp is an e-learning platform that provides fun, challenging and interactive physical sessions and educational courses to ensure emerging athletes across Australia, reach their full sporting potential. The program was specifically developed by APD to address a number of critical gaps in the athlete pathway including a decline in physical literacy, high levels of musculoskeletal injury, high levels of dropout and poor utilisation of athlete and lifestyle skills. In addition, contemporary evidence shows that podium winning athletes have better overall athletic capability as well as a better repertoire of habitual lifestyle and mental skills and strategies, compared to their lesser successful counterparts.
myAISbasecamp has been designed to provide a valuable adjunct to the sport-specific training a participant or athlete is doing with their coach, club and sport. The content within myAISbasecamp accords to the key principles of the FTEM Athlete Development framework and is evidence-based and practicable, informed directly by internationally recognised experts from within the AIS. Current physical modules include: Strength Training Technique, Ball Skills, Postural Strength & Running Technique. Current athlete and lifestyle educational content include: Nutrition, Psychology, Self-Regulation, Physical Preparation, Personal Excellence, Recovery & Video Analysis. Launched in November 2016, the platform has been custom-designed to appeal to emerging athletes through its innovative learning environment and community, recognition of competency on completion of modules, video tips from our finest international-level athletes and inclusion of educational resources for their nominated ‘base-camp buddy’ , a parent, coach or peer who will encourage and support them on their myAISbasecamp journey.
Who is myAISbaseamp for?
The primary intent of the myAISBasecamp strategy is to continue to roll out this platform nation-wide so that it reaches and supports the majority of Australian emerging athletes regardless of their location (i.e., covering remote and rural areas as well as metropolitan centres). This will be achieved through further showcasing and implementation of the platform to –Prioritised NSOs (i.e. Foundation – Prospective etc.), The National Institute Network, Underpinning State Sporting Organisations, Regional Academies of Sport, and Department of Sport & Recreation networks.
Importantly, all athletes must be nominated by one of these organisations to gain access and support through myAISBasecamp. Coaches and parents nominated as a ‘Basecamp Buddy’ by their respective athlete, will also greatly benefit through better access to aligned education and support.
The future potential of this platform to support the physical literacy of foundational level participants earlier in the pathway (e.g. primary and secondary school aged children), is currently being scoped in partnership with a growing number of secondary schools and the Australian Sports Commission.
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