Counselors, cabin leaders, activity instructors, drivers, kitchen and med staff — screen every adult around your campers with an FCRA-compliant national criminal and all-50-state sex-offender check, plus biometric identity verification, for $5. Works right alongside the camp software you already use.
FCRA-compliant Works with your camp software Results in minutes
Around every campfire
Camp puts adults in close, often unsupervised contact with kids — overnight, on the water, on the road. These are the roles worth verifying before opening day:
Overnight, in the cabin, closest to your campers.
Lifeguards, climbing wall, archery, ropes course.
Moving kids between sites and off-camp outings.
Everywhere at camp, all day, every day.
One-on-one care and access to every camper.
Under-18 helpers — screened with guardian consent.
VolunteerBadge sits beside your camp software — it doesn't replace it.
Add a VolunteerBadge screening link to your existing volunteer application. No new system for volunteers to learn — they screen on our secure form.
Run one link with automated character references for new volunteers and a check-only link for returners. Configurable per template, free either way.
Review results and references in VolunteerBadge, then mark cleared in your own platform so your whole team sees status — no extra logins.
VolunteerBadge · Camp check
Every $5 camp-volunteer check
Criminal records
650M+ county, state & federal court records
Sex-offender registries
All 50 states + national registry
Identity verification
Government photo ID + biometric selfie
Address history
SSN-traced — free on every check
Watchlists
FBI Most Wanted + OFAC / global
Email a link or drop a QR code in your volunteer packet. Counselors apply from their phone in minutes — right inside your existing workflow.
Government ID + selfie confirms the real person, then the $5 national check runs. Under-18 CITs get guardian consent automatically.
A green “verified” badge (or a flagged review) lands on your roster — with FCRA adverse-action built in. Mark cleared in your own system for the team.
Flip on volunteer-pays and each counselor pays for their own check at sign-up — screening stays 100% free for the camp, and you still get a verified result for every volunteer.
Camp nonprofits carry a heavy trust: for a week or a whole summer, children — often away from home for the first time — are in the care of your volunteers. Counselors share cabins, activity leaders run the waterfront and the climbing wall, drivers move kids between sites, and kitchen and health staff move through every part of camp. Every one of those adults deserves a real background check, and doing that across a seasonal roster of dozens or hundreds of volunteers, on a nonprofit budget, is exactly where most camps get stuck.
VolunteerBadge makes it affordable and fast: $5 for a full national criminal background check spanning 650M+ county, state, and federal court records, sex-offender registries in all 50 states, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC/global watchlists — with a free SSN-traced address-history check on every applicant. No per-seat fees and no annual contract, so a small camp and a multi-site organization pay only for the checks they actually run, when they run them before opening day.
And because most camps already run applications, health forms, and camper data in a dedicated platform, VolunteerBadge is designed to sit beside it rather than replace it. Drop a shareable screening link into your existing volunteer workflow, collect FCRA consent and run the check on our secure form, review results and — for first-year volunteers — automated character references here, then mark cleared status wherever your team already looks. Screening lives with us; camp management stays where it is.
Build your camp screening policy — free
Screening is one layer. Generate a branded, FCRA-aware background-check policy for your camp in minutes.
Through VolunteerBadge, a full national criminal background check is $5 per volunteer — with a free address-history check and the FCRA adverse-action workflow included, and no per-seat or monthly fees on pay-as-you-go. That makes it realistic to screen every counselor, activity leader, driver, and support-staff volunteer before camp opens.
Yes — that is a common setup. You keep your existing platform as the hub for camper data, schedules, and health forms, and use VolunteerBadge just for screening and references. Drop a shareable application link into your workflow; volunteers complete the FCRA disclosure, authorization, and (optionally) character references on our secure form, and results come back to VolunteerBadge where you review and clear them. You then mark each volunteer cleared in your own system so your whole team sees status without needing VolunteerBadge logins.
Yes. Automated character references are free and configurable per application, so you can run one link with references for first-year volunteers and a streamlined check-only link for returning staff. References are collected, identity-verified, and captured automatically — no phone tag.
Yes. Every $5 VolunteerBadge check searches sex-offender registries across all 50 states plus the national registry, alongside 650M+ county, state, and federal court records, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC/global watchlists — the coverage that matters most for anyone working with children at camp.
Camps often rely on teen counselors-in-training. VolunteerBadge screens applicants as young as 14, and for anyone under 18 it automatically collects a parent or guardian authorization before the check runs — the guardian signs it themselves through a secure link. Adult volunteers never see that step.
Yes. Turn on volunteer-pays and each volunteer covers their own $5 check during the application, keeping screening free for the camp while you still get a verified result and a clearance status for everyone.
Background checks for summer & youth camps
The overview for every kind of camp program.
Church youth camp screening
For faith-based and VBS-style overnight camps.
Volunteer background check consent form
What FCRA requires before you screen a camp volunteer.
Free background check policy creator
Build a branded, FCRA-aware screening policy in minutes.
What shows up on a volunteer background check
Exactly what a national criminal check reports.
Set up your camp in a few minutes and screen your first volunteer for $5 — no contract, no per-seat fees, and it works right alongside the software you already use.
Screen a volunteer for $5