[Youth-outreach] FW: MENTOR Minute: President Obama Signs SafetyNET Extension

[Olivero, Treva]

FYI--This is a great program for screening adults volunteering for your
youth programs.  

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From: MENTOR [mailto:onlineservices at mentoring.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 2:46 PM
To: Olivero, Treva
Subject: MENTOR Minute: President Obama Signs SafetyNET Extension

MENTOR Minute: One Page, One Minute on Mentoring


President Obama Signs SafetyNET Extension

March 2, 2010: President Obama has signed into law the bill to extend
the Child Safety Pilot, SafetyNET -- the program that allows mentoring
organizations to conduct fingerprint-based criminal background checks on
potential mentors through the FBI's master criminal record database in a
cost-effective and timely way.

MENTOR now will resume full program operations, processing fingerprint
cards submitted since January 31. The extension runs through March of
2011.

SafetyNET (www.mentoring.org/safetynet) is sponsored by identity theft
protection champion LifeLock.

The need for and efficacy of SafetyNET is well documented. Of the nearly
69,000 volunteers screened during the pilot, more than 6 percent had
criminal records of concern, including serious crimes such as murder,
rape and child sexual abuse. Furthermore, more than 41 percent of
individuals with criminal records of concern had crimes in states other
than where they were applying to volunteer--meaning only a nationwide
check would have caught the criminal records.

LifeLock CEO Todd Davis said, "LifeLock is thrilled with the extension
of SafetyNET; it is our corporate responsibility to make sure vital
programs such as these protect our nation's children. We are honored to
be a part of this process with MENTOR and mentoring programs across the
country."

"We are grateful for the President's support and that of Senators
Schumer, Hatch and Isakson and Representatives Schiff, Rogers and
Conyers," said MENTOR's President and CEO Dr. Larry Wright. "We also are
deeply grateful for LifeLock's sponsorship, for the support the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children provides and for the advocacy
of mentoring programs nationwide, as well as state and local Mentoring
Partnerships, which was critical in convincing Congress to pass this
extension."

The Child Protection Improvements Act (S. 1598/ H.R. 1469) currently
before Congress would build on the lessons learned from the Child Safety
Pilot to create a permanent, nationally-accessible background check
solution for youth-serving organizations. To ask your Congressional
representative to pass the Child Protection Improvements Act, go to
http://mentor.convio.net/site/R?i=VmcmXAYWY4p5v-wcuDtzhg.. .

For more information about SafetyNET, contact Kristi Zappie-Ferradino at
kzferradino at mentoring.org.



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