by Protect Youth Sports | Sep 28, 2015 | Compliance Updates, Industry News
A parks and recreation department in Missouri found itself the subject an embarrassing public call out by a parent who discovered a felon among the coaching ranks of a youth soccer group. Here’s the actual letter from the parent: Hey Mr. Pokin! I’m asking for your...
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 | 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...
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