Coach and Volunteer Background Checking
Your responsibility? To protect the children playing in your organization. Our responsibility? To ensure that.
There’s no such thing as being too careful, not when the statistics reveal a disturbing trend. According to the non-profit group Darkness2Light, nearly 70% of all reported sexual assaults (including assaults on adults) occur to children ages 17 and under. Although 30-40% of victims are abused by a family member, 50% of those reporting abuse by someone outside of the family said it was by someone whom they know and trust. Also, nearly 70% of child sex offenders have between 1 and 9 victims; at least 20% have 10 to 40 victims.
Yeah, we were floored, too.
We’ll help you automate, streamline and secure the coach and volunteer background check process, all in full compliance with Federal Reporting rules. SportSignup features:
- Online Registration
- FCRA Compliance
- Quality Results
- A Secure Platform
- Affordable and Simple System
Online Registration
Any parent, coach, assistant, administrator or volunteer can log onto your website and securely register for a background check. The advantages of online registration are numerous. Like...
- Keeping it simple (and green): Eliminate scads of paper – and paperwork – by using the online system.
- Keeping it easy: The ability to have parents, coaches, volunteers and administrators log into the website to securely register for a background check.
- Keeping it smart: The ability to pay by credit card helps reduce the work associated with processing payments by checks and cash.
- Keeping it real: Users are sent an e-mail with a permanent, electronic record of their transaction, with prompt results generated by a real-time system.
Security
So there’s your private information that you just filled out on a paper form, with bank or credit card information, social security numbers, birth dates, and more, just sitting on somebody’s desk, waiting to be processed. Next thing you know, there’s a charge on your statement for a big screen TV purchased in Fresno, Calif. – and you live in Baltimore.
SportSignup is in the business of handling highly confidential information in the form of background checks and payment information. We take extreme measures to ensure that our secure content management system can only be accessed by authorized people.
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FCRA Compliance
We’re in good with the Feds. SportSignup and our partner, LexisNexis®, are fully compliant with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which mandates the proper processes and procedures for handling consumer disclosure and disputes. This helps to ensure that your coach and volunteer background screenings are being conducted under the strictest oversight of the law.
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Quality Results
LexisNexis, our partner, is one of the leading providers of background checks in the country. It processes more than 22,000 criminal background checks – a day.
Through its Social Security Number Verification, LexisNexis verifies that a person IS who they say they are. And, through the National Criminal File Search, it is able to scan a database of more than 200 million criminal records compiled from numerous sources – government watch lists, fugitive watch lists, sexual and violent offender registries, state and county repositories, and state department of corrections.
Integration/Reporting
SportSignup’s secure system is easily able to cross-reference with a rostering system. This allows you, as the user, to see which coaches, volunteers and administrators have already been screened and whether they have passed the background check.
Even better, our system enables you to manage the process by quickly identifying who still needs a background check and generating an e-mail notice; displaying the names of people in the organization who have had criminal activity; and displaying and managing current open cases while noting any ongoing activity.
Affordable and Simple
When it comes to our kids, the old cliché is true: it’s about dollars and sense. SportsSignup charges a reasonable per-registrant fee. We don’t charge you for the system, we don’t charge you for the set-up and we don’t charge you for training. The system is easy to use and we’re happy to walk you through it.
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