Self-Assessment Tool Resources
These evidence-based resources have been curated by experts in Positive Youth Development (PYD) through sport in each location. After completing the digital Self-Assessment Tool and receiving your score you should be able to identify and prioritize specific sections where your organization can strengthen its ability to empower youth.
Scroll down for customized resources for Australia, Japan and Poland, with other locations to come.
Australia
Strategy, Governance & Leadership
- ASC Governance resource library
- Sports Governance Principles
- Sports Governance Standards
- Strategic Planning
- Purpose Statement
- Vision Statement
- Leadership self-assessment for organisations
- Good governance resources
- Tips for the Committee
- Tips for the Annual General Meeting
- Governance (Club Help – most appropriate for those ‘Getting Started’)
- People (Club Help)
Financial Sustainability & Resource Allocation
Youth Development
- 6 C’s of Positive Youth Development
- Designing participant-centred products and experiences
- Be You – tools for mental health
- Youth Communication and Engagement Playbook
- Wellbeing Action Tool
- Mental wellbeing in community sport
- Engaging refugee youth respectfully
- Positive Youth Development 101: A Training Manual
- Search Institute 40 Developmental Assets
Organization Resource Management
Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility
- Designing participant-centred products and experiences
- Play By the Rules
- Involving children and young people
- Anti-racism community sport module
- Dealing with Bullying and Harassment (AHRC)
- Inclusive Coaching Tips
- Reconciliation Action Plan
- Top tips for inclusion of trans and gender diverse people in sports
- Pride in Sport resources
Safety
- Online safety advice – eSafety
- How to recongise and deal with online abuse in sport
- Creating Psychologically Safe Workspaces
- Safeguarding in sport
- Child Safe Organisations – National Principles self assessment
- Training: Safer Play (Global) by Common Goal
- Managing complaints – Play by the Rules resources
- Commonwealth Ombudsman: Complaint handling self assessment tool
Collaboration
Monitoring & Evaluation
- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare: Evaluation , Audit and feedback
- Understanding and Developing your Theory of Change (includes a checklist)
- NEST wellbeing framework – includes examples of being applied in a variety of settings.
- Good Practice- Indigenous Data Sovereignty Principles.
- Ethical research involving children
- Equal access participatory monitoring and evaluation toolkit
- The most significant change method
- A Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating Children’s Participation: Tools for monitoring and evaluating children’s participation.
- Measuring Impact
Japan / 日本
戦略、ガバナンス、リーダーシップ
Q1: 開始期
- Guidance on Child and Adolescent Participation (Unicef, 2021)
- SDGs 達成へ向けたスポーツの活用ガイドブック：スポーツを通じた社会課題解決のための政策／事業の設計・実施・モニタリング・評価方法
- ビデオ
Q1: 発展期
- Kazan Action Plan
- 日本語概要（スポーツ庁資料）
- Safeguarding athletes from harassment and abuse in sport – IOC Toolkit for Ifs & NOCs
Q1: 成功期
- 子どもの権利とスポーツの原則
- Igniting the Power of Sport and Community: Laureus’ 10-Year Sport for Good City Impact Report
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財政的持続可能性と資源配分
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ユース育成
- ウェルビーイングのためのトータルコンディショニングハンドブック ハイパフォーマンススポーツセンター・大塚製薬株式会社
- アスリートのためのトータルコンディショニングハンドブック 日本スポーツ振興センターハイパフォーマンススポーツセンター
- EY新日本有限責任監査法人（2025）『アスリートがキャリアを考えるときに最初に読む本』
- スポーツ庁 スポーツキャリアサポート支援事業
- スポーツ庁 現役時代から始めるアスリートのキャリア形成〜スポーツキャリアサポート支援事業〜
- Current state and the support system of athlete wellbeing in Japan: The perspectives of the university student-athletes
- 参考：メンタルの疲労を防ぐ休息の力/アスリートの心を支える休養法とは/日本スポーツメンタルコーチ協会と引用論文
- Psychological Rest in Student-Athletes: Relationships Between Sport Demands, Mental Rest, Depressive Symptoms, and Well-Being