Central Jersey Lacrosse Volunteer Policies

(Updated 2/2/2020)

ELIGIBILITY to VOLUNTEER

Central Jersey Lacrosse
Steve Shinners
106 N. Coachman Drive
Freehold, NJ 07728

ACCEPTANCE of VOLUNTEER APPLICATION
CJLAX Supervisors (Currently Steve Shinners, James O'Connor, Victor Franco, Todd Caissie) will review all applications and consult with the current coaching staff as appropriate. Applicants must be unanimously approved by all active CJLAX Supervisors in order to participate in the CJLAX sponsored program. CJLAX Management will document reasons for not accepting any applicant and supply that information to the applicant.

TYPES of VOLUNTEERS
Head Coaches

Program Commissioner:

The Program Commissioner's primary responsibilities are:

• Recruiting volunteers to help run the Program.
• Tracking equipment assignments and making sure all needed equipment is available for safe game play.
• Inspection of players' equipment to certify that it meets safety guidelines as specified in Section 3.4, Required Equipment.
• Scheduling games, make-up games and play-off games and ad-hoc games with teams from other youth lacrosse programs.
• Locating practice facilities for the teams.
• Tracking Program finances and raising funding to pay for expenses not paid for by a partner sponsoring organization (e.g. Freehold Township Department of Parks and Recreation).
• Obtaining and scheduling referees, scorekeepers, and timekeepers
• Keeping track of any program statistics such as game scores.
• Managing any issues that may arise

Assistant Supervisors:

These volunteers help with the administrative aspects of running CJLAX's programs.

Supervisors will assign specific responsibilities to the Assistant Supervisors. These include but are not limited to:

• Managing the Volunteer Application Forms: being certain that all volunteers have properly filled out forms on file and references have been checked.
• Managing program registration processes: insuring that all participants are registered to participate in the program.
• Managing the player evaluation process: insuring that player's abilities is properly recorded and made available to the Coaching Teams prior to the team formation draft.

Fund Raisers

These volunteers work on raising money needed to support program operations. Costs are typically to purchase equipment not provided directly by the Township Rec Department.

Scorekeepers/Timekeepers

These volunteers record the result of any scheduled league games

These volunteers may choose to apply for employment with the Township Rec Department and will be paid on a per game basis at a rate that is set by Freehold Township Rec Department. The scorekeepers are actually seasonal employees of the township.

They are responsible for keeping track of:

• Player rosters for each game played: who was present and played in each game
• Player scoring: who scores each goal
• Player assisting: who assisted on a goal, if applicable
• Player penalties
• Who refereed the game
• Time, date, and location of game

As noted above, Scorekeepers/Timekeepers must fill out the appropriate documentation when participating in programs that are sponsored by the Freehold Township Parks and Recreation Committee to receive payment. This included proof of employablity form and time sheets.

REC Program Referees - Boys and Girls

These volunteers officiate lacrosse games that are sponsored by the league

These volunteers must fulfill one of the following requirement to be able to officiate games:

• Complete the CJ LAX referee's training clinic
• Complete a referee's training program sponsor by another recognized Lacrosse organization
• Have at a minimum a 2 years experience playing Lacrosse at a high school or college level

Referees must fill out the appropriate documentation when participating in programs that are sponsored by the Freehold Township Parks and Recreation Committee to receive payment. This included proof of employablity form and time sheets.

Writers

These volunteers document lacrosse activities that may be of interest to the Lacrosse Community in the Central Jersey Area

These volunteers must be able to submit their articles in electronic format to the identified CJLAX webmaster, preferably HTML.

Writers recieve no compensation for their articles, but will be given the credit as the author of the article .

Photographers

These volunteers take photographs of league activities

These photographs are then used on the CJ LAX website, www.cjlax.com

Photographers recieve no compensation for their photographs, but will receive photo credits where possible and appropriate.

Webmaster

These volunteers work on the CJLAX website

These volunteers will have the ability to have there work exposed to the general public

These volunteers will be given the ability to learn new web skill, including working with databases, cgi scripts, perl, and mySQL

Webmasters recieve no compensation for their work, but will receive credits where possible and appropriate for their web design work.

PROCESS FOR EXPULSION of a VOLUNTEER FROM PROGRAM PARTICIPATION

If a signed written complaint is received by a CJLAX Supervisor or Coach requesting expulsion of a volunteer, the Program Supervisors will:

• Immediately notify all proper authorities and turn the investigation over to them if the complaint jeopardizes the safety of any of the children in program or may have criminal liabilities
• If not as serious as noted above, investigate and obtain the pertinent facts concerning the complaint from involved parties
• Convene a meeting of CJLAX Supervisors (named above). All CJLAX Supervisors must be present at the meeting or the meeting will be re-scheduled.
• Review collected information at the meeting
• Depending on the nature of the complaint and at the sole discretion of the CJLAX Supervisors, the named volunteer may be suspended from League Activities until final decision is rendered. The CJLAX Supervisors will make final decision regarding expulsion of the named volunteer. The named volunteer will return all CJLAX or Sponsoring Organization's property to one of the CJLAX Supervisors upon being notified of the suspension.

REVIEW AND AGREEMENT WITH CJLAX CHILD AND YOUTH ABUSE PREVENTION POLICY

All volunteers must read and agree with the CJLAX Child and Youth Abuse Prevention Policy.

CONSENT FOR PICTURE and WRITE-UP TO APPEAR ON CJLAX website.

All volunteers agree that their picture and a brief description of their CJLAX responsibilities can appear on the Central Jersey Lacrosse, Inc. website.