☀️ Day camp
A day camp is eight hours of access — every single day.
Bathroom trips, lunch tables, the walk to the bus — a day camp counselor is alone with kids constantly. That level of unsupervised access is exactly why every volunteer needs a real background check. VolunteerBadge clears your whole team for $5 each, with biometric identity verification.
Day camps have more unsupervised adult-child moments than almost any youth program.
Transitions, free play, and small-group time happen constantly, and rarely with two adults present. State licensing, the facilities you use, and your insurer almost always require a documented check on every staff member and volunteer. One gap can void coverage and shut a camp down.
Screen everyone with camper access
Day camp screening questions
Who at a day camp needs a background check?
Every adult and teen volunteer with camper access — counselors, group leaders, activity helpers, drivers, and floaters. The check is $5 per person, the same for a director or a first-year helper.
We re-hire the same counselors each summer — do they need re-screening?
Best practice (and many policies) call for a current check each season. With reusable badges, returning counselors re-verify quickly instead of starting from scratch.
How long does it take to clear a counselor team?
Counselors verify from their phone and most results return in up to 72 hours, so an entire team can be cleared in the days before camp opens.
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 day 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
- Active supervision, headcounts & name-to-face counts
- Safe transitions and restroom / buddy-system protocols
- Authorized-pickup and check-out done right
- Heat illness, hydration, lightning & weather calls
- Allergies, EpiPen & first-aid basics
- Behavior guidance, bullying & homesickness
- Abuse prevention, boundaries & mandatory reporting
Clear your counselors before the buses roll
Every volunteer with camper access, screened for $5 — identity-verified, before day one.
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