VOLUNTEER INFORMATION

STMAYHA operates successfully because of our volunteers. To provide a quality program and create a positive experience for our players, we need help from each registered family. All opportunities throughout the season are posted on STMAYHA’s website. The policy is in effect from May 1 through April 30 of the following year, aligning with STMAYHA’s fiscal year.

Gambling Shifts: Back-to-back shift volunteering is not allowed. Volunteers may be responsible for handling cash; any lost cash is to be replenished by the volunteer at the end of their shift. When you sign up to volunteer, you are responsible for the shift. If you are unable to make the shift for unforeseen reasons and the shift is within 7 days, you must email gambling@stmayha.org to be removed from the shift. Canceling within 48 hours will result in no-show fees.

Regular Volunteer Shifts: These opportunities include, but are not limited to, any volunteer shift posted on the STMAYHA website, except gambling shifts. Some examples each year include helping with preseason skills, locker room monitors, tournaments, and fundraising events. If you sign up for one of these shifts and are unable to make it for an unforeseen reason within 7 days, you must email volunteers@stmayha.org to be removed from the shift. Canceling within 48 hours will incur a no-show fee.

Additional Ways to Fulfill Volunteer Requirements:

• Travel Teams:
• Travel coaches will receive volunteer credit for all players in their family. Teams will be allowed no more than one head coach and three assistant coaches for volunteer credit.
• Travel team managers will receive up to 20 hours of volunteer credit, which can be split between co-managers.
• Scrimmage coordinators will receive up to10 hours of volunteer credit.
• Mite/8U Teams:
• Mite/8U coaches will receive credit for each skater they coach so long as they are coaching on the ice at least 75% of the scheduled ice time. The HOC will track Mite/8U coach attendance to ensure participation.
•  Mite/8U team managers will receive volunteer credit only for the player on their team; if a team manager’s spouse coaches the Mite/8U team, 10 hours may be applied to another player in their immediate family.
•  Mite/8U coaches and managers that have twins or multiple siblings on the same team will be given 10 hours credit for the first child and 5 hours of credit for the second child assuming they meet all requirements.
• Board Members, Supporting Coordinators, and committee members will receive credit for all players in their family.

*Donating goods or being a sponsor does not relinquish volunteer hours.

• USA Hockey Number
• https://membership.usahockey.com/
• Parent Registration
• https://www.stmayha.org/program/parent-registration/684
• Background Check Confirmation (need passed background once every 2-years)
• https://www.usahockey.com/backgroundscreen
• SafeSport Training Completion
• https://www.usahockey.com/safesporttraining

Fulfilling Team Game Shift Responsibilities

• Game shifts can be filled by those 18 years and older. These shifts include locker room monitor, penalty box, scorekeeping, and game clocks. 
• It is up to each team's parents to fulfill the required game shifts. These shifts do not count toward volunteer hours. It is expected that all parents help out fairly, including assistant coaches. Head coaches are exempt.
• If SafeSport training and background screens are not complete, parents are not able to fulfill their scheduled shifts.

On occasion, families experience hardship and are unable to fulfill their volunteer hour commitment. Please contact the Executive Board of Directors at execboard@stmayha.org.

• Always conduct yourself in a manner that positively reflects on all participants and STMAYHA regardless of the opportunity or location to which you are fulfilling your hours. 
• Respect the property of STMAYHA, the cities of Albertville and St. Michael, as well as our gambling partners.
• Take steps to prevent theft or damage whenever possible.
• STMAYHA has a zero-tolerance rule for drinking during volunteer shifts. If you are caught drinking during a shift, you will be asked to leave and will forfeit all volunteer hours, and your credit card will be charged. This includes both gambling and regular volunteer shifts.
• Volunteers may not participate in any lawful gambling activity (including, but not limited to, paper or electronic pull-tabs, tipboards, paddlewheels, raffles, or bingo) while scheduled to work or while performing any gambling-related duties. Volunteers involved in the conduct of paddlewheel without a table or tipboards with 32 tickets or less may purchase pull-tabs on days they are not volunteering (Minnesota Statute 349.181, subd. 3). If you are volunteering at a site for a gambling event, you are not allowed to participate in any gambling at that specific site on that specific day.