Required NFHS Certs

HIGH SCHOOL & MIDDLE SCHOOL COACH

NFHS Coach Level 2 Certification

1. • Student Mental Health and Suicide Prevention (FREE)

   • Heat Illness Prevention (FREE)

   • Protecting Students from Abuse (FREE)

   • Sudden Cardiac Arrest (FREE)

   • Concussion in Sports (FREE)

   • Coaching Unified Sports* (FREE & Counts as a sports specific course)

   • Coaching Mental Health (FREE, NEW 2025)

   • Emergency Action Planning for Afterschool Programs (FREE, NEW 2025)

   • Fundamentals of Coaching $ (Required by PIAA for high school)

   • First Aid Health & Safety $ (Required by PIAA for high school)

**Free courses should be completed first before requesting paid ($) courses using the NFHS PAID COURSE REQUEST FORM**

**IMPORTANT NOTES**

1. PIAA Requires Fundamentals of Coaching & First Aid Health & Safety courses to be completed within 2 years of hire. 

2. The Division of Athletics pays for the "paid courses"

3. Once you have earned an NFHS certificate, it does not go away. 

INTRAMURAL FACILITATOR

NFHS Coach Level 1

1. Fundamentals of Coaching $ 

2. Sudden Cardiac Arrest (FREE)

3. Concussion in Sports (FREE)

4. Protecting Students from Abuse (FREE)

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