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New Users: Welcome!
Accessible, Affordable, and Timely FBI Background Checks
In partnership with the FBI, MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership 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 $18, and results are delivered within 3-5 business days. 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 Join the Pilot?
Before you apply, 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.
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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.
Announcements:
July 23, 2008
SAFETY NET STAFFING CHANGES
We are currently transitioning SafetyNET to a new staff team. Your new contacts will be Angel Washington, SafetyNET Administrator, and Kate Schineller, SafetyNET Supervisor. Please refer all inquiries to safetynet@mentoring.org, where both Angel and Kate can respond. In addition, please note the new phone number: 703-224-2266. We do ask for your patience over the next couple of weeks as we get the new team members up to speed. Welcome Kate and Angel!
REMINDER: NEW ADDRESS
We also want to remind you that we have now closed the SafetyNET P.O. Box. All mail should now 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, phone number, and staff members.
July 14, 2008:
SAFETY NET EXTENSION
We are now able to confirm that the SafetyNET pilot will continue until January 31, 2009. Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed by voice vote S. 3218, which extends the pilot by an additional 6 months. The Senate had already passed the bill, so it now will become law once the President signs it. SafetyNET will continue "business as usual" for another six months. We will use that six months to hopefully finalize work with Congress on legislation that would create a permanent successor to SafetyNET (H.R. 5606 and S. 2756).
We must again recognize the 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 to 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 permanent legislation to keep us moving forward on 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.
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 703-224-2266. If you need a fitness determination re-sent, please email MENTOR to request it, rather than NCMEC. Fitness determinations can sometimes be blocked by 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.
Thanks very much for your part in helping make SafetyNET a success over these past four years!
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