NATIONAL COACHING CERTIFICATION PROGRAM (NCCP)

The National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) is a coach training and certification program for more than 60 sports in Canada. The basketball program was developed by Canada Basketball in conjunction with the Coaching Association of Canada to improve the standard of coaching through education.

The NCCP uses a competency-based approach where the coach is:

trained in NCCP outcomes relevant to the athletes they are coaching
evaluated by demonstrating coaching outcomes to a specific standard

NCCP Pathways

The NCCP Basketball program is delivered by Basketball BC and Canada Basketball though clinics or program challenges. The goal is for the coach to become “trained” and/or “certified” in the NCCP Community and/or Competition pathways.

On the coach education pathway, a coach can achieve different statuses based on the course work they have completed. These are:

In-Training Status: the coach has completed some of the course work, but has not finished the entire module(s) for their specific pathway
Trained Status: the coach has completed all of the course work, but has not completed their evaluation(s)
Certified Status: the coach has completed all of the associated course work on their pathway and has successfully demonstrated their competency through evaluation(s)

The NCCP Community Pathway includes the following program: