🏈 Youth football
Screen every football camp volunteer before they hit the field.
A youth football summer camp puts dozens of volunteer coaches and helpers shoulder-to-shoulder with kids for long, high-energy days. VolunteerBadge clears all of them — coaches, trainers, and field parents — for $5 each, with biometric identity verification so the person on your sideline is exactly who they say they are.
Who you're screening at a football camp
Anyone with unsupervised access to your players belongs on the screening list — not just the head coach.
Volunteer coaches
Position coaches and drill leaders who run players through contact reps all day.
Team parents & helpers
Water, equipment, and scrimmage volunteers moving freely among the kids.
Trainers & spotters
Conditioning and safety volunteers with hands-on, one-on-one player contact.
One unscreened volunteer can put your whole program at risk.
Most youth sports leagues, school districts, and the facilities you rent now require a documented background check on every adult on the field — and your insurance likely does too. One unscreened volunteer can void coverage and put your players at risk. A $5 check per coach closes that gap.
What each $5 coach check includes
$5 / checkFootball camp screening questions
Do volunteer football coaches really need background checks?
Yes. Volunteer coaches and trainers have repeated, often one-on-one contact with minors, which is exactly the access most state youth-protection laws and league/insurance policies require screening for. Many youth leagues and facilities now mandate a current background check before anyone steps on the field.
How fast can I clear a full coaching roster before camp starts?
Most VolunteerBadge checks return in minutes to a day or two. Coaches complete identity verification and consent from their phone, so you can send invites the week before camp and have a cleared roster by opening day.
What about parent volunteers who help on the field?
Anyone with unsupervised access to players — water/equipment parents, scrimmage helpers, drivers — should be screened the same way as coaches. They each run as a standard $5 check.
Can a coach reuse their clearance for fall season?
Yes. Each cleared volunteer gets a re-verifiable badge they can carry into your fall program or another organization, so you are not paying to re-screen the same coach every season.
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 football summer 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 and the two-adult rule on the field
- Concussion recognition & the HEADS UP 4 R’s
- Heat illness, hydration & summer-practice safety
- Helmet & pad fit plus real hydration breaks
- R.I.C.E. and knowing when an injury is a 911 emergency
- Lightning & severe-weather calls on an open field
- Positive coaching and sideline conduct
- Youth-protection boundaries & mandatory reporting
Clear your coaching staff this week
Send invites today and have a fully screened sideline before the first whistle. $5 per coach.
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