YCI Specialization Credential
The credential for coaches who help students learn how to learn. CARC combines YCI's ICF Level 1 accredited professional coach training with graduate-level learning science, so you can coach the skills behind academic performance: executive function, self-regulated learning, confidence, and recovery from setbacks.
CARC is earned, not purchased. It recognizes coaches who complete two rigorous components: YCI's professional youth coach certification and our learning science specialization course.
Component 1
76 hours of ICF Level 1 accredited training, including live practicum, supervision, and ICF mentor coaching. CYBHC graduates qualify automatically, since the full CYRC program is nested inside the CYBHC.
Component 2
Self-paced e-learning covering the cognitive science of learning: memory, executive function, motivation, growth mindset, test anxiety, burnout, and coaching students with ADHD.
Credential
A verifiable specialization credential documenting both professional coaching competence and evidence-based academic coaching expertise.
Start from where you are.
Add the course for $297. Already completed it? Contact us to claim your credential.
Add the Learning Science CourseCYRC tuition from $457.92/mo or $5,495 paid in full, plus the $297 course.
Explore CYRC EnrollmentThe credential verifies applied competence across the skills that move academic outcomes.
Guide students through the full self-regulated learning cycle: forethought, performance, and self-reflection.
Equip students with retrieval practice, spaced repetition, and interleaving, validated by cognitive science.
Work the four sources of self-efficacy and coach students through test anxiety and academic stress.
Apply growth mindset and attribution retraining so students process failure as strategy feedback, not identity.
Coach executive function with students with ADHD and help high achievers navigate perfectionism.
Work within clear scope-of-practice boundaries and know when and how to refer to licensed professionals.
A Certified Academic Resilience Coach has completed 76+ hours of ICF Level 1 accredited coach training with live supervised practicum, plus specialized coursework in learning science and academic coaching, through Youth Coaching Institute, an ICF and CCE dual-accredited training organization with 800+ certified coaches and a 98 to 100% certification success rate since 2013. To verify an individual's credential, contact us.
Schools partner with YCI through the Student Independence Initiative, which trains campus teams as Academic Resilience Coaching Practitioners (ARCP): an accelerated, school-based track built on the same evidence base, with measurement and board-ready reporting included. Practitioner-trained staff can advance to the full CARC credential by completing the CYRC program.
Students don't need another lecture about trying harder. They need someone trained to coach how they plan, start, finish, and recover. Become that coach.
