by Protect Youth Sports | Aug 24, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
If you’re one of the few local or community-level youth sports organizations that has a coherent and comprehensive screening policy, we applaud you. You’re a rarity and clearly you’ve taken proactive measures to keep your employees, volunteers and child participants...
by Protect Youth Sports | Aug 10, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
“Legal experts have one main thing to say to employers considering using social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram as an initial job-candidate screening tool: Don’t do it. According to a recent survey from Careerbuilder, more employers are turning to...
by Protect Youth Sports | Aug 3, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
So, you know you want to screen coaches involved in your program, but you have no idea where to start. Sound familiar? Well, first, we’re glad you found us. Protect Youth Sports is the premiere background screening agency for youth sports programs across the nation....
by Protect Youth Sports | Jul 20, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
When youth sports programs make the proactive measure to protect its child participants from predators by using background checks, we can only applaud them. Background checks are the single most effective tool youth organizations can onboard to keep participants,...
by Protect Youth Sports | Jul 6, 2015 | Industry News
Sometimes it’s not what a background check turns up, but what a successful screening program can do to alert people of suspect behavior. Case in point: A 13-year-old cheerleader from Colorado has come forward claiming her coach sexually assaulted her. She says the...
by Protect Youth Sports | Jun 29, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
Over the past couple of years, Pennsylvania has been leading the charge to protect children. It started in 2014 when state legislators passed a comprehensive package of proposals to overhaul its child protection policies. The new law set out a bunch of new parameters...
by Protect Youth Sports | Jun 1, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
Sports camps across the country are gearing up for Summer 2015. Coaches, volunteers, referees and other guides/handlers are signing all the important forms, giving clearance for background checks, getting some training, and learning the ins/outs of what’s expected of...
by Protect Youth Sports | Apr 13, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
Conducting background checks on your employees and/or volunteers is something that has become a necessity for any organization that works with children. It’s common sense. It protects a vulnerable population. It speaks highly about your organizations’ commitment to...
by Protect Youth Sports | Mar 30, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
Want to Save Time on Reviewing Background Checks? Try Automatic Coach Scoring. Hiring coaches and volunteers takes time. First you have to craft the job posting and then get the ads out there. Then you have to comb through dozens or hundreds of thousands of...
by Protect Youth Sports | Mar 16, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
Volunteer-driven organizations, like many youth sports programs are, know the importance of finding and retaining quality people. Turnover is often high as kids age-out of certain programs and their parents, who had been volunteer coaches or referees or organizers, go...
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