❤️ Special needs & adaptive

Personal care for vulnerable campers is the deepest trust there is.

Special-needs camps give volunteers one-on-one, hands-on responsibility for some of the most vulnerable children — often including private personal care. No setting demands more careful vetting. VolunteerBadge clears every aide and counselor for $5 with biometric identity verification.

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Personal-care duties create exactly the contact abuse risk lives in.

Research consistently finds children with disabilities face a far higher risk of abuse — and personal-care duties create exactly the private, dependent contact that risk lives in. A thorough, documented background check on every volunteer is the floor, not the finish line, of protecting these campers.

Who to screen at an adaptive camp

One-on-one aides and personal-care volunteers
Counselors and group leaders
Therapy, activity, and medical support volunteers
Drivers and transfer assistants

Special needs camp screening questions

Why is screening especially important at a special-needs camp?

Campers with disabilities are among the most vulnerable to abuse, and volunteers often provide one-on-one personal care — toileting, feeding, transfers — in private. That combination demands the most thorough, documented background check on every volunteer, not a shortcut.

Do one-on-one aides and personal-care volunteers need checks?

Above all, yes. Anyone providing personal care or individual support should be screened with identity verification and a full criminal and sex-offender registry search. Each is a single $5 check.

How quickly can our aides be cleared?

Volunteers verify from their phone and most checks return in up to 72 hours, so the support team is cleared 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.

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Volunteer ApplicationCity Parks Dept.
Full Name
Email Address
I authorize a background check per FCRA disclosure. I have received and reviewed the required disclosure document.
Step01

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 free
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Address History Check Scanning…
Step02

We 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 free
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National Criminal SearchSarah Johnson
County & Superior Courts
Sex Offender Registries
Federal Criminal Courts
FBI Most Wanted + OFAC
Step03

Run 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 check
Next-gen identity verification

We 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.

$5included — no premium tier, no add-on
How it works
Live biometric scanFACE MATCH · 99.2%
Verified
Live selfie
Photo ID
SSN + address
Identity confirmed & triangulated

Enterprise-grade verification at a nonprofit price. The same rigor banks use — built into every $5 check.

Protect your campers with full vetting

Screen every aide and counselor for $5 — the trust adaptive camps require.

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