Little League Abuse Awareness Training
In the 2024 season, Little League required all umpires to take the USA Baseball abuse awareness training. Starting with the 2025 season, USA Baseball abuse awareness IS NOT accepted for umpires. All umpires MUST take the Little League Abuse Awareness training.
For the 2025 season, Abuse Awareness Training is REQUIRED for ALL volunteers. Remember that ANYONE with frequent contact with players, including ALL district staff, ALL local league staff, ALL coaches, ALL managers and ALL umpires, must complete a background check through JDP and complete this training. This is true even if the umpire is from a paid association!!
Once you complete the training, you will get a certificate of completion that you have to send to whoever is processing background checks for your league.
How do I take the training?
Here’s how you do it!
- Go to Little League Abuse Awareness Training
- Click on Login to Training Portal if you already have an account, or click on Create an Account if you need to create an account
- Go through the process to create an account for yourself (if you haven’t done this already). Everyone will need to create their own training account – this is how you can download your certificate later
- Answer the questions about your role (League official, district official, coach, umpire, etc)
- Make sure you choose your league under Your associated league.
- Once you have registered and logged in, there are a lot of courses to choose from, but the REQUIRED training is Abuse Awareness.
- After you have completed your training, you will have met the requirement
- You can download your certificate after completion, or you can always log back on to the training portal and choose All Courses, go to Abuse Awareness and there will be Certificate button you can click to see your certificate
- Download the certificate and send it to whoever is handling background checks for your league.
