⛪ Church youth & retreats
Youth camps and retreats are some of the most meaningful — and highest-trust — things a church does: overnight stays, small groups, and time away from parents. VolunteerBadge clears every leader and chaperone for $5 with biometric identity verification, so your safe-church policy is more than a promise.
Adults shepherding cabins and discussion groups around the clock.
Overnight supervisors with sleeping-quarters access to students.
Worship, recreation, and transport helpers with student contact.
Yes. "We trust them" is the assumption every safe-church policy is designed to back up, not replace. Your denomination, insurer, and the camps you visit expect a documented background check on every adult leader and chaperone — members included.
Anyone with access to students does — small-group leaders, cabin chaperones, drivers, and worship/activity volunteers. Each is a single $5 check.
Yes — each cleared leader keeps a re-verifiable badge they carry from camp into your weekly youth ministry and back again.
How It Works
We stripped every unnecessary step. Here's what running a volunteer background check actually looks like.
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 freeThe 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 freeOne 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 checkVolunteerBadge 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.
Screen every youth leader and chaperone for $5 before the retreat.
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