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

[Jedi]

I'm just curious. Will the National Office in Baltimore start requiring 
fingerprinting for those who apply to be mentors in future?

Respectfully,
Jedi


Original message:
> FYI--This is a great program for screening adults volunteering for your
> youth programs.

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> 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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