Youth Football Coaches Association has partnered with Coeus Global to provide you with a way to certify your criminal background check according to Youth Football Coaches Association Certification standards.
This quick and easy process will search your background for criminal history and present you with a certification card to verify your status to the officials and administrators of your league.
Why Get Background Checks for Coaches?
The main reason is to protect the safety of the kids participating in the sport from the unthinkable and to ensure a positive youth football experience for the kids.
Additionally, to protect youth football leagues from incurring liability, meet the requirements of insure, and to protect the league's economic interests against would be embezzler Lastly, to protect the coaches themselves and insure that the atmosphere remains competitive but does not turn tragic due to lack of screening.
1. Once the Youth Football Coaches Association Coaching Exam has been completed a link to begin the background check will be emailed.
What does the background check include?
The Youth Football Coaches Association Certification approved background check consists of 3 parts:
1. A social security number trace to verify the coach's identity and develop a name and address history.
2. A county criminal records check. This will include felonies and misdemeanor convictions in the coach's current county of residence for at least the last 7 years. It may also include relevant arrest records that have not yet gone to trial.
3. A national criminal / sex offender database search. This search includes criminal records from all 50 states, drawing from sex offender registries, correctional departments, county court records, and international watch lists such as the FBI Most Wanted, Interpol Most Wanted, restricted foreign nationals, and more.
How is the Youth Football Coaches Association screening program better than a basic background check?
Most youth sports related background checks require only a sex offender registry search, and/or a national criminal database search for each coach. While these resources are often fast and inexpensive, they alone do not offer a due diligent background check. The quality of national database information varies from state to state, so it is important to accompany this search with a local criminal background check, such as a county criminal search, to ensure the same standard for each subject. Local criminal searches provide the most accurate and up to date criminal information of any search method available.
Also, database and sex offender searches are often based only on a subject's name. If a subject had criminal records associated with a name he or she did not disclose, they would go undetected in this type of search. By performing a social security number trace we detect these aliases.
The Youth Football Coaches Association screening program also prevents false identification of criminal records. Unlike a name-match only search, criminal records must also match a person's social security number and/or date of birth to be reported in a Youth Football Coaches Association approved background check. Furthermore, the Youth Football Coaches Association program offers the ability to verify all national database hits at the local level, ensuring full FCRA compliance.
