SafeParish Registration
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Hello and welcome to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Child Protection platform — SafeParish™. As an active child protection account holder, you must register for your SafeParish™ account to continue to work and volunteer in the Archdiocese. If you have completed your background and training requirements, that information will be imported to your SafeParish™ account and no additional background or training will be required.
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Do You Plan to Volunteer?
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The Archdiocesan Decree on Child Protection requires that all employees and volunteers who have regular contact with children register for a SafeParish™ account and complete a favorable criminal background check before working or volunteering with children. Volunteers may find more information and register for a SafeParish™ account by visiting SafeParish™.
NOTE: If you had an account through VIRTUS, use the same log in information in SafeParish™ that you had in VIRTUS to make sure all your information transfers over. You can update your personal information once your account is registered in SafeParish™ .Fingerprinting
As part of the Decree, employees and volunteers must also submit to a criminal background check. Volunteers are required to complete the background check one time only online with Selection.com from within their SafeParish™ account. Only teachers, clerics, staff, and those who have lived outside of Ohio will need to be fingerprinted.
Fees
The cost of the background checks are $25. This fee will be paid by the parish through a Fastrax Token. Each token will have a corresponding number much like a “coupon code.” A volunteer may call the parish office or send an email requesting a token.
More Information
Visit the Archdiocese website for a full description of the Archdiocesan Decree on Child Protection, or contact the parish office.
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Contacts for assistance or questions about SafeParish™Safe Environment Coordinator for St. Thomas More Parish:
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Linda Caskeylcaskeysttm.orgSafe Environment Coordinator (SEC) -
Parish Office
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Safe Environment User Registration
If you are a new employee or volunteer, please register for your SafeParish™ account and complete your background and training requirements. Registration instructions are below. Please contact your local safe environment coordinator with questions.
Go to www.AoCSafeEnvironment.org
Click "Register" on the top right of the home page and follow the directions below.
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Registration Information
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Go to AoCSafeEnvironment.org and click " Register" on the top right of the home page and follow the directions below.
- Enter the passcode protectcincy when prompted.
- Select the location from the drop down where you are employed or volunteer.
- Click the role(s) associated with your employment/service at the parish, school, or Archdiocesan institution. Select a sub-role from the drop down to describe your employment/service at this location.
● If you are active at only this location, this will be your primary location and role.
● If you are active at more than one location, click the ADD PARISH/LOCATION button and repeat the steps above. With more than one location, please click the "This is my main/primary location" radio button to indicate where you are employed or, if you are a volunteer, where most of your ministry or service is performed. - Complete your personal information. Please enter your legal name for the purposes of the background screening. There are no credit checks and no soft hits to credit.
- Create a username, password and password clue.
- If information regarding your previous safe environment account can be located, it will be displayed. Click the radio button for the correct choice or choose "none of the above" if none of the information pertains to you. If your information was found and you clicked the appropriate radio button information regarding your training and background check dates will be transferred into your SafeParish™ account.
- Agree to the Terms of Use and click SUBMIT.
- If you have not previously completed an online background check you will be prompted to submit information for a background screening through SELECTION.com.
- You will be required to acknowledge that you have downloaded and accepted the terms of the Decree.
- If you have not previously completed child protection training you will be prompted to view SafeParish™: Protecting Children From Sexual Abuse — Archdiocese of Cincinnati. (If you have completed a background check through VIRTUS, no new background check will be required also if you have attended VIRTUS training, no new training will be required.)
- If you have completed the required background checks and child protect training, you will be prompted to click the link to Continue to the Home Page. Your registration is complete.
- If you need to complete background check requirements or training, you may use the links in your approval checklist to access these requirements. These steps may be completed all at once or may be completed separately at your convenience. You will receive an automated email weekly to remind you which requirements are outstanding. When all compliance requirements have been completed, your account will be approved, and you will be clear to work/volunteer with youth and vulnerable adults.
Should you need any assistance, please contact your local Safe Environment Coordinator (SEC).
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