Decree on Child Protection of

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati

ALL employees and regular volunteers ARE REQUIRED to attend a new orientation meeting, unless you have attended since August, 2003.

Orientation Meetings will be held in the Holy Family Room of the undercroft on the following dates:

"Effective January 1, 2006, letters of approval [for those passing the background check] will not be issued until both the fingerprinting and orientation are completed.  No employee or regular volunteer may begin service prior to receiving approval."

   - from January 2006 Clergy Communications with bracketed text added

Regular volunteers are defined as coaches, scout leaders, catechists, etc. Anyone who works with children more than three (3) hours a month or who works with children more frequently than once a month.

Registration to Deacon Bob Schroeder at 922-4759 or at w8cro@arrl.net.

FINGERPRINTING FOR VOLUNTEERS   Here is some clarification of the Archdiocesan policies regarding fingerprinting/background checks and the need for them to be repeated:

1. Whenever there is a change in service or location, employees, teachers, and volunteers are required to be re-fingerprinted; e.g. volunteers who move from one parish to another, or who continue at one parish and begin at another, need to be re-fingerprinted as this is a change in service.

2. If a person has been inactive for more than one year they are required to be re-fingerprinted even if they are at the same location.

Questions call Deacon Bob Schroeder at 922-4759.

Fingerprinting Sites

Ohio BCI Check - required for Ohio residents

FBI check - required for non-Ohio residents and those who have lived in Ohio for less than 5 continuous years.

In all cases, bring your driver's license with you.