🧭 Scouting & troops
Scout camps run on adult volunteers leading overnight, outdoor trips far from home. Youth-protection standards pair the two-adult rule with screening — they reinforce each other. VolunteerBadge clears every registered leader and volunteer for $5 with biometric identity verification.
Campouts, hikes, and overnights take scouts into the backcountry where supervision thins out. Pairing two-deep leadership with a documented check on every adult is the baseline scouting families expect — and increasingly what councils and insurers require.
Two-deep leadership and background checks are complementary, not interchangeable. Youth-protection standards expect both: never one adult alone with a scout, AND a documented background check on every registered adult. VolunteerBadge handles the screening half.
Yes — any adult with access to scouts, including merit-badge counselors, trip chaperones, and parent volunteers on outings. Each is a single $5 check.
Leaders verify from their phone and most checks return in up to 72 hours, so a roster confirmed the week before can be cleared by departure.
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.
Pair your two-deep rule with a $5 background check on every registered adult.
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