Background Check Information

Pennsylvania Background Check Requirements

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania requires that all volunteers, age 14 and older, who are, “responsible for the welfare of a child or having direct contact with children” complete mandated state and federal background checks and receive a Pennsylvania Child Abuse Clearance in order to work with children. To comply with state law, you will need to initiate the following three background checks for yourself. Clearance requirements need to be renewed every five years. NOTE: Volunteers pay no cost for PA Clearances #1 and #2 below. For Item #3, if the volunteer has lived in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 10 or more consecutive years, then a Disclosure Statement may be signed in lieu of registering for an FBI Criminal Background Check and Fingerprinting. You can access a copy at https://www.pennsylvaniafca.org/pa-background-checks under “PA Volunteer Resident for 10 years.” If the volunteer does not qualify for the Disclosure, then the volunteer must register and pay for the FBI Criminal Background Check and Fingerprinting.

Additional Information: https://www.pennsylvaniafca.org/pa-background-checks
Additional Information: https://www.cccbsa.org/resources/pa-background-checks/clearances/

Pennsylvania State Police Response for Criminal Background Check (PSP)

1. Go to: https://epatch.pa.gov/home
2. Click on “New Volunteer Record Check”
3. Click on the box indicating that you are a volunteer (and that you have read the details). Click “accept”
4. Fill in personal information
   1. Volunteer Organization Name: Camp Iroquoina
   1. Volunteer Organization Telephone Number: 570-967-2577
   1. Enter remaining personal information and click “Next”
5. Verify information is correct, click “Proceed”
6. Fill in personal information (no spaces or hyphens with your Social Security Number)
7. Click on “Enter this Request”
8. Click “Finished”
9. Click on your name, and click “Submit”
10. Print page that says “No Record”
11. Upload a copy of this through your staff dashboard at https://iroquoina.campmanagement.com/p/staff/login_m.php

Pennsylvania Child Abuse History Clearance

1. Go to: https://www.compass.state.pa.us/cwis/public/home
2. Under Child Welfare Portal: Click on “Create Individual Account”
3. Click “Next”
4. Enter Keystone (username), personal information, security questions
5. Click “Finish”
6. Check email for temporary password
7. Go back to the initial website and login using keystone as username, and temporary password from email as password.
   1. https://www.compass.state.pa.us/CWIS/Public/AccountType
   1. Click on “Access my clearances”
   1. Click “Continue”
   1. Enter Keystone and temporary password
8. Verify Account with either security questions set up when you created the account or email security codes.
9. Select Private Device or Public Device (depending on whether you are at home or in public)
10. Enter new password 2x and click “submit”
11. Return to website and login:
12. Read Terms and Conditions and click “I have read…”  Click “Next”
13. Read following page, and click “next”
14. Click “Create Clearance Application”
15. Make sure you have all information they are requesting, and click “Begin”
16. Select “Volunteer Having Contact with Children” – 1st option
    1. Choose “Other”
    1. Type in “Camp Iroquoina” under Agency Name
    1. Click “Next”
17. Choose yes or no depending on whether you want to include your SSN (it’s voluntary but may speed up your application). It should still work either way.
18. Choose yes or no depending on whether you have gone by nicknames or previous names.
19. Add contact information and click “Next”
20. Fill in the address.
21. Decide if you want the certificate mailed or you just want to access it digitally and click “next”
22. Add previous addresses and click “next”
23. Add household members (people you have lived with in past/current) and click “Next”
24. Review Information and click “Next”
25. If you haven’t re-done your application within five years, click no. If you have done it more recently, click yes.
26. Check the box to affirm and type in name, click “next”
27. Click “no” for authorization code and click “next”
28. It may take up to 14 days to get clearance. You should get an email, or you can check your account status.
29. Upload a copy of this through your staff dashboard at https://iroquoina.campmanagement.com/p/staff/login_m.php

Fingerprint (non-PA resident)

1. Non-PA Resident: https://uenroll.identogo.com/
2. Enter Code: 1KG6ZJ
3. Click Submit a Fingerprint Card by Mail
4. Enter Personal Information, click next
5. Enter Employer Information, click next
6. Enter Citizenship Information, click next
7. Answer questions about alias, address, etc.  Authorization Coupon Code-No, Locate Identigo Enrollment Center-No, click next
8. Enter Personal Information, click next
9. Enter Address Information, click next
10. Enter Payment Information
11. Print Copy of Document
12. Fill Out Information
13. Bring to local Police Department to get ink-based fingerprint card done
    1. Call ahead to make sure they do fingerprint cards, only certain locations may
    2. There is a $10 or more charge depending on the station
14. Mail the card and the document to:

IDENTOGO

CARDSCAN DEPARTMENT-PA

340 SEVEN SPRINGS WAY, SUITE 250

BRENTWOOD, TN 37027

For questions during this process please contact the Registrar at registrar@iroquoina.org
Upload copies through your staff dashboard at https://iroquoina.campmanagement.com/p/staff/login_m.php