Required By: The State of Ohio 

Who Completes it: Coaches

Frequency:

Players/parents will be provided with the information sheet annually during registration. Concussion training for coaches is completed biennially

What is required:

• Players/parent/Guardians must be presend with the Youth Sports Concussion Information Sheet from the Ohio Department of Health.
• Coaches must complete one of the two online concussion trainings as required by the State of Ohio- either the CDC Heads Up training or NFHS Concussion training. 

Where is it completed:

Players/players/guardians will be presented with the information sheet durning registration. Coaches will fullfill this requirement by uploading their training certificates into Demosphere. 

OVERVIEW:

Ohio’s Return-to-Play law (ORC 3313.539 or ORC 3314.03) requires that Ohio youth athletes who are suspected of sustaining a concussion, MUST be removed from practice or play. Ohio laws prohibit a child to return to play (practice or competition) on the same day that he/she is removed on suspicion of having sustained a concussion. He/she may return the following day if cleared in writing by a physician (MD or DO) or other authorized healthcare provider that he/she did not sustain a concussion.

Because of the significant health concern posed by the risk of concussions, and because of the Return to Play laws enacted by the State of Ohio, NSA follows the expectations set by the State of Ohio for its leagues, coaches, referees, officials, and athletes and their families.

REMOVAL FROM PLAY:

Ohio’s Return to Play law features three key rules that its leagues, coaches, referees, officials, and athletes and their families must abide by:

• Rule One: Coaches, referees, or officials must remove from play an athlete exhibiting the signs and symptoms of a concussion during practice or a game. (See O.R.C. 3707.511 (D)(1).) 
• Rule Two: The athlete cannot return to play on the same day that he or she is removed after exhibiting symptoms of a concussion. (See O.R.C. 3707.511 (E)(1).) 
• Rule Three: The athlete is not permitted to return to play until he or she has been assessed by a physician or licensed health care provider approved by the youth sports organization and received written clearance. (See O.R.C. 3707.511 (E)(1).) Leagues and clubs must be able to produce evidence of compliance with this obligation, which may require the league or club to retain the written clearance form and/or otherwise demonstrate that the league verified that the athlete was cleared to return to play.

FAILURE TO COMPLY: 

If a coach, referee, or official is knowingly not compliant with the Return to Play law, including training requirements and removal from play requirements, he or she could face civil liability (see O.R.C. 3707.511 (F)(1)) should a child become injured due to his failure to follow the law.