📣 Cheer & tumbling
Stunting and spotting are hands-on. Your screening should be too.
Few youth camps involve as much physical contact as cheer — lifts, catches, and tumbling corrections happen all day. VolunteerBadge clears every coach, spotter, and volunteer for $5, with biometric identity verification, so the adults with their hands on your athletes are fully vetted.
The hands-on roles to screen
Coaches & spotters
Lifting, catching, and supporting athletes through stunts all day.
Tumbling instructors
Hands-on technique correction and physical spotting on the mat.
Choreo & parent helpers
Volunteers with close, repeated, often unsupervised access.
Cheer camp screening questions
Why does cheer need such careful screening?
Cheer is one of the most physically hands-on youth activities — coaches and spotters lift, catch, and correct athletes constantly. That close contact makes a documented background check on every adult essential, not optional.
Do volunteer spotters and tumbling helpers need checks?
Yes — anyone with hands-on contact or unsupervised access to athletes, including parent spotters and choreography volunteers. Each is a single $5 check.
How fast can we clear our cheer staff?
Volunteers verify from their phone and most checks return in up to 72 hours, so the whole staff is cleared before the first practice.
How It Works
Three steps. Start to finish.
We stripped every unnecessary step. Here's what running a volunteer background check actually looks like.
Build your application
Create a volunteer application in minutes. FCRA disclosure language is embedded automatically — applicants sign digitally, you stay compliant from day one.
No charge to create applications or collect signatures.
Always freeWe verify address history
The moment they submit, we pull their actual address history and cross-reference it. Any gaps or addresses they 'forgot' get flagged before you spend a single credit.
No credits used. Catches incomplete applications early.
Always freeRun the check. Done.
One click searches county courts, sex offender registries across all 50 states, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC. Plain English results with FCRA guidance included.
One credit per check. No hidden fees.
$5 per checkWe verify the human — not just the name on the form.
VolunteerBadge is the only volunteer screening platform that ties a real, verified identity to every application: a biometric face match against a government photo ID, then triangulated against the SSN trace and address history behind the check. A borrowed clean identity can't get through.
Biometric facial match
A live liveness selfie — proof a real person is present, not a photo.
Government photo ID
The selfie is matched face-to-face against their official ID document.
SSN + address triangulation
Identity cross-checked against the SSN trace and address history on the report.
Enterprise-grade verification at a nonprofit price. The same rigor banks use — built into every $5 check.
Free training for your cheer camp volunteers
Screening tells you who to trust. Training tells them what to do. Send every counselor and helper through this free, self-paced course built for the real situations your camp runs into — animated lessons, video, scenarios, and a certificate on passing.
What the course covers
- Why cheer carries the highest catastrophic-injury risk
- Safe skill progression — never rushing a skill
- Spotting technique that protects the head and spine
- Safe surfaces, mats & the practice space
- Concussion recognition & the CDC HEADS UP steps
- Heat, hydration & R.I.C.E. for sprains
- Appropriate hands-on touch, boundaries & reporting
Vet every set of hands
Screen every cheer coach and spotter for $5 before the first practice.
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