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New Users: Welcome!
ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE, AND TIMELY FBI BACKGROUND CHECKS
In partnership with the FBI, MENTOR is pleased to make nationwide FBI fingerprint-based background checks available to any mentoring program in the country. Through SafetyNET, each FBI background check costs only $18. There is a turnaround time of approximately 5 business days from the time the background check materials are received by MENTOR until the fitness determinations are emailed to the program from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). For an overview of the SafetyNET pilot, please read the SafetyNET Fact Sheet. More detailed information is provided in the SafetyNET Manual.
Created by Congress, the SafetyNET pilot is part of a longer-term effort to create a permanent workable system for obtaining criminal background checks on volunteers who work with children.
HOW DO I APPLY FOR SAFETYNET?
SafetyNET continues to be an important tool for mentoring programs to conduct background checks on potential mentors. The response to the availability of this service has been so enthusiastic that MENTOR has reached the limit of our capacity to offer it to additional organizations. SafetyNET new program registration is only open to agencies that are joining the Caregiver's Choice network who provide mentoring services to children with an incarcerated parent.
If your mentoring program is part of the Caregiver's Choice Network, please carefully read the SafetyNET Manual to become familiar with how the pilot works and what it means for your organization. This manual explains everything you need to know about the pilot program, including the fingerprint process, cost, turnaround time, step-by-step instructions, and other key details. Once you have read the manual and are sure that you want to join the SafetyNET pilot program, please fill out the program application.
The 1,300 plus organizations that are already taking advantage of the SafetyNET can continue doing so. Mentoring programs using SafetyNET can continue to contact safetynet@mentoring.org for support and assistance.
For programs who are not a SafetyNET user but had planned to become one during this year, there are two things you can do:
- Add your name to the SafetyNET waiting list by emailing safetynet@mentoring.org. Please include "waitlist" in the subject line. We will contact you as soon registration reopens.
- Hasten the re-opening of SafetyNET by contacting those in Congress who are taking the leading in making availability of a nationwide criminal background check permanent.
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Current Users: Welcome Back!
LOG IN
To log in to your SafetyNET account, please click here and enter your e-mail address and password.
NEED HELP OR HAVE QUESTIONS?
MENTOR is your day-to-day contact for SafetyNET, so please direct all questions to safetynet@mentoring.org or call 703-224-2233. If you need a fitness determination re-sent, please email MENTOR to request it, rather than NCMEC.
REMEMBER, you will not receive program application results and fitness determinations if they are blocked by your email spam filters, so please check your spam folders and authorize as "safe senders" the following email addresses: safetynet@mentoring.org and staffassistant@ncmec.org. Please also regularly log in to the password protected sight to view your program's fitness determinations.
HOW TO CONTACT US
Please refer all inquiries to safetynet@mentoring.org, or call 703-224-2233. The SafetyNET P.O. Box is closed, and all mail should be directed to MENTOR's headquarters (which will help speed up the mailing time) at:
MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership
Attn: SafetyNET
1600 Duke Street, Suite 300
Alexandria, VA 22314
Any mail that is sent to the post office box will be sent to MENTOR via the post office's mail forwarding, which can add a week to ten days onto your mail time.
Please make sure you've updated your records, checklists, and welcome packets to reflect the new mailing address and phone number.
SAFETY NET EXTENSION
The SafetyNET pilot will continue until January 31, 2010. We will be working to advocate and work with Congress on legislation that would create a permanent successor to SafetyNET (H.R. 5606 and S. 2756).
We must again recognize the consistent and dedicated leadership of Senators Biden (D-DE), Hatch (R-UT), and Specter (R-PA) and Representatives Schiff (D-CA) and Rogers (R-MI), who have been instrumental in securing the extension of SafetyNET, as well as to the bill that would establish the permanent system. If you have not done so already, please ask your U.S. Representative and Senators to cosponsor the legislation establishing a permanent successor to SafetyNET. To do so, please click on the following link to send an email today: http://capwiz.com/mentor/issues/alert/?alertid=11146581.
Thanks very much for your part in helping make SafetyNET a success, and for your commitment to helping protect the children in your care.
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