Human Resources and Skills Development Canada is providing financial assistance for the Coaching Internship Program project through the Government of Canada's Career Focus program, which offers financial support to employers and organizations to provide post-secondary graduate youth with career-related work experience in their field of study. Through this project, the Coaching Association of Canada (CAC) is offering subsidies of $12,000 to enable sport organizations to hire young professionals for coaching positions leading to permanent full-time employment. The deadline for applications is July 13, 2009 at 5h00 PM EDT, for positions starting August 1, 2009. Click here to apply and learn more about the program.

Dan Milkovich has been coaching girl’s rugby for roughly 15 years at Mentor College. He devotes his time to coaching 6-8 hours a week. Fifteen of his athletes have gone on to play varsity rugby at the university level in Ontario, England and the United States. Dan has made the initiative to bring to Mentor College a concussion management program designed to help student athletes from suffering major and long term damage from head injuries.  Mentor College is the first high school in the country to implement this concussion program.