Churches must be careful about choosing who they hire and allow to volunteer, as they serve vulnerable populations. Here are tips on how churches should set a policy in place to minimize the risk of a bad decision.

2. How to screen out the BAD
Without offending the GOOD?

3. Increasingly Litigious
Environment

4. Agenda
Shocking Statistics
The need for screening
What should I use to screen
Staying in compliance

5. Shocking
Statistics

6. Every 6 minutes a
convicted criminal
tries to volunteer…
or attain a position at a nonprofit organization

7. 187,000 people with
Criminal Convictions
tried to volunteer or
work on the staffs of non-
profits that did perform
screenings
Of those, over 2,700 were sex offenders

8. In a recent year, 1 in 14 churches
having attendance of 1,000 or more
were sued.

9. The Need for Screening

10. Protect
“Vulnerable
Populations”

11. 59% of current
prisoners with
a child victim
had been
previously
convicted of a
crime.
A criminal background check would have
most likely uncovered this information

12. Guard
Against
Liability

13. Due Diligence
On Employees and Volunteers

14. Protect
Assets

15. Trust and Reputation

16. A church will
fare much better
by having made
a good faith
effort to conduct
a background
check

17. How Should I Screen?

18. COUNTY CRIMINAL

19. Can turn up arrests
and convictions!

21. Millions of records
Dept of Corrections
Admin. Office of Courts
Federal exempt lists
Sex Offenders Registry
Social Trace

22. Incomplete

23. Drug
screening

24. Motor Vehicle Screening

25. To Review
County Criminal Checks
Nationwide Criminal Database
Drug Screening
Motor Vehicle Record
Use all, or a combination of some

26. Staying in Compliance

27. REQUIRED!
Disclosure to Applicant

28. REQUIRED!
Applicant’s Authorization

29. REQUIRED!
Adverse Action Procedures

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36. Minimize risk
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Data Facts can help you
During your hiring/volunteer process

37. FINALLY

38. “This will NEVER
happen to US!”
Is a RISKY stance

39. Safeguard
the
congregation

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