Mentoring is the highest-trust role there is — one adult, one child, often one-on-one and off-site. Screen every mentor 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
One adult, one child
Mentoring is the highest-trust role there is — often one-on-one and away from any site. These are the volunteers worth verifying most carefully.
Long-term, unsupervised, off-site matches.
Small-group and cohort mentoring.
Tutoring, college prep, job shadowing.
Church, foster, and reentry mentoring.
Match events, outings, and check-ins.
Under-18 mentors — screened with guardian consent.
VolunteerBadge · Mentoring
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 to prospective mentors. They apply from their phone in minutes — and can add references in the same step.
Government ID + selfie confirms the real person, then the $5 national check runs. Under-18 peer mentors 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 mentor covers their own $5 check — though many programs cover it themselves given the trust a match requires.
A mentoring match places one adult with one child, frequently unsupervised and away from a program site — the very scenario where thorough screening matters most. Big Brothers Big Sisters-style programs, faith mentoring, reentry and foster mentoring, and school-based mentoring all depend on trusting a volunteer with sustained, private access to a young person. A real background check on every mentor is not optional; it is the foundation of the match.
VolunteerBadge runs 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.
Because one-to-one trust demands certainty about who the person is, VolunteerBadge verifies each mentor with a government photo ID and a biometric selfie matched to the ID, and provides an FCRA-compliant adverse-action workflow for the rare match that shouldn’t proceed.
Build your mentoring screening policy — free
Generate a branded, FCRA-aware background-check policy in minutes.
It is $5 per mentor through VolunteerBadge — a full national criminal check with a free address-history check and FCRA adverse-action workflow, and no per-seat or monthly fees on pay-as-you-go.
Yes — all 50 states plus the national registry, alongside 650M+ court records, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC/global watchlists, on every $5 check.
Yes. VolunteerBadge’s automated character references are free — mentors list references who are then invited, identity-verified, and asked character questions, with the results on the mentor’s profile.
Yes — turn on volunteer-pays so each mentor covers their own check, keeping screening free for the program. Many programs cover it given the trust involved.
Because matches are long-term and one-to-one, most programs re-screen annually; VolunteerBadge’s automated reminders keep it on schedule.
Set up your program in a few minutes and screen your first mentor for $5 — no contract, no per-seat fees, cancel anytime.
Screen a volunteer for $5