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Street Clinics

Preparation

Identify Sites

• Secure written permission to hold events
• Find out the procedures for access of site on event dates
• Secure fee for use in writing to hold event at the site
• Identify how the site is prepared and by whom
  • Lawn mowed
  • Garbage facilities
  • Bathroom facilities
  • Parking
  • Lining fields (If possible)
  • Etc.

Select Event Dates

• Facility must be available
• Check for other events held in/around event dates
• Decide how many dates per site

Event Staffing

• Predict total number of help needed on site the day of the event
  • Licensed staff
  • Certified staff
  • General staff
• Determine help needed for preparation of events
  • Fliers
  • Mailings
  • Press releases
  • Staffing

Identify Marketing Plan

Event Day

Site Layout

• Registration Tent
  • Tent
  • Table
  • Chairs
  • Writing Utensils
  • Blank Registration Forms
  • List of Registered Players
  • Volunteers
  • T-Shirts
  • Name Tags
  • Markers (Colored)
• Launching Areas
  • Photocopies of Lesson Plans
  • Colored Flags
  • Volunteer Forms
• Fields (See Appendix A)
  • One (1) set of pop up goals
  • Six (6) scrimmage vests
  • Twelve (12) soccer balls
  • Sixteen (16) disc cones

Registration Tent Procedures

• Two lines, one for returning players, one for new players
• New players get a t-shirt
• Name tags given with first and last names each day
• Give color flag to report to

Launching Area Procedures(Marked by colored flags)

• Volunteers congregate here
• Discussion of daily curriculum/activities
• Lesson plans, attendance sheet, equipment inventory, and time sheet given to volunteers
• Eight (8) players assigned to a field along with two (2) volunteers

Fields Procedures

• Two (2) volunteers per field
• Ten (10) to twelve (12) players
• Volunteers follow lesson plans
• Games are scrimmages with arbitrary teams
• Each volunteer manages a team
• Let the kids play
• Encourage purpose
• One (1) Certified Staff Member per four fields
  • Monitors quality control on each field
• One (1) Licensed Staff Member per site
  • Monitors quality control at entire site

Activities

• Fifteen (15) minutes of “story book” activities
• Fifteen (15) minutes of 4v4 game
• Fifteen (15) minutes of “story book” activities
• Fifteen (15) minutes of 4v4 game

• Twenty (20) minutes of warm-up activity
• Thirty (30) minutes of small sided activity
• Thirty (30) minutes of 4v4 game

Post Sessions

• Volunteers
  • Clean up field areas (If there is not a second set of events)
  • Inventory equipment
  • Turn in attendance sheet
• Licensed Staff
  • Responsible for collecting volunteer forms
  • Responsible for field clean up
  • Responsible for site clean up
• Wrap Up Meeting
  • Licensed Staff, Certified Staff, and willing Volunteer Staff meet to discuss problems, issues, and/or improvement areas