Coaches, choreographers, spotters, and travel chaperones are hands-on with your athletes — lifts, stunts, locker rooms, and out-of-town competitions. Screen every adult with an FCRA-compliant national criminal and all-50-state sex-offender check, plus identity verification, for $5.
FCRA-compliant No per-seat fees Results in minutes
On the mat & on stage
Cheer and dance put adults in close, hands-on contact with kids — lifts, spotting, long rehearsals, and travel. These are the roles worth verifying.
Hands-on with lifts, stunts, and tumbling passes.
Long rehearsals, close instruction, one-on-one time.
Overnight competitions, hotels, out-of-town trips.
Year-round programs with the same athletes.
Recitals, private lessons, dressing rooms.
Under-18 helpers — screened with guardian consent.
VolunteerBadge · Cheer & dance
Every $5 volunteer check
Criminal records
650M+ county, state & federal court records
Sex-offender registries
All 50 states + national registry
Identity verification
Government photo ID + biometric selfie
Address history
SSN-traced — free on every check
Watchlists
FBI Most Wanted + OFAC / global
Email a link or drop a QR code in your team packet. Coaches apply from their phone in minutes.
Government ID + selfie confirms the real person, then the $5 national check runs. Under-18 assistants get guardian consent automatically.
A green “verified” badge (or a flagged review) lands on your roster — with FCRA adverse-action built in.
Flip on volunteer-pays and each coach pays for their own check at sign-up — screening stays 100% free for the program, and you still get a verified result for everyone.
Cheer and dance put adults in unusually close physical contact with children — coaches spotting stunts and tumbling passes, choreographers running long rehearsals, and chaperones traveling to overnight competitions. For many families it is a year-round commitment with the same handful of adults, which is exactly why a real background check on every coach and volunteer is worth the few dollars it costs.
VolunteerBadge makes it affordable: $5 for a full national criminal background check across 650M+ county, state, and federal court records, sex-offender registries in all 50 states, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC/global watchlists — with a free SSN-traced address-history check on every applicant. No per-seat fees and no annual contract, so a single studio or a large all-star program pays only for the checks it runs.
And because a clean name is not the same as a verified person, VolunteerBadge confirms each coach with a government photo ID and a biometric selfie matched to the ID — the safeguard that matters most when the adults you are clearing will be lifting and spotting your athletes.
Build your cheer/dance screening policy — free
Generate a branded, FCRA-aware background-check policy for your program in minutes.
Through VolunteerBadge it is $5 per coach or volunteer — a full national criminal check with a free address-history check and the FCRA adverse-action workflow included, and no per-seat or monthly fees on pay-as-you-go.
Yes. Every $5 check searches sex-offender registries across all 50 states plus the national registry, alongside 650M+ court records, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC/global watchlists.
Yes. VolunteerBadge screens applicants as young as 14, and for anyone under 18 it automatically collects a parent or guardian authorization before the check runs — the guardian signs it themselves.
Yes. Turn on volunteer-pays and each coach covers their own $5 check at sign-up, keeping screening free for the studio or booster club.
Most programs re-screen annually for anyone with ongoing athlete contact. VolunteerBadge’s low price and automated re-screening reminders make yearly checks practical.
Youth sports background checks
Screening for teams, leagues, and athletic programs.
Cheer camp screening
For cheer clinics and summer intensives.
Volunteer background check consent form
What FCRA requires before you screen a coach.
Free background check policy creator
Build a branded, FCRA-aware screening policy.
Set up your program in a few minutes and screen your first coach for $5 — no contract, no per-seat fees, cancel anytime.
Screen a volunteer for $5