What if I previously had a background check and training but I’m starting work at a different parish or school?
Your background check is good as long as you stay in the same parish or school. But we’re asking everyone to have a new background check every time they begin work at a new institution. This will ensure that we have current and accurate information about all our personnel. For example, if you’re a teacher at a parish elementary school, and start volunteering as a catechist in a different parish, we ask that you submit to another background check; if, on the other hand, if you start volunteering in the same parish, you do not have to have a new background check when you start. We do not, however, ask that people have another training program, so long as they have the appropriate level of training for their new position. Remember, clergy and employees must have completed a VIRTUS “Protecting God’s Children”; volunteers can satisfy the training requirement by attending a “Safer Spaces” class or a VIRTUS “Protecting God’s Children” class. So, for example, if you previously were a volunteer
