Thank you so much for volunteering to help with the Parish Festival! Everyone over the age of 18 who will be volunteering this year will need Safe Environment clearnances. If you have volunteered in the past at St. Joseph and need to check if your clearances are expiring, please contact Joyce Castaldi ([email protected]) to find out if you need to renew your clearances. If you have these clearances through your work or another volunteer group, please submit copies to Joyce at the email address above.
The three clearances needed to volunteer at the Festival are the Criminal Record Check, PA Child Abuse History, and Disclosure Statement or FBI fingerprinting, depending upon the length of your residency in PA. If you have been a resident of PA for the past 10 consecutive years, please sign the Disclosure Statement in lieu of the fingerprinting. These three clearances are good for 5 years and then must be renewed. All volunteer clearances, with the exception of FBI Fingerprinting, are free of charge. Use the following links to complete the Criminal and Child Abuse clearances:
- Criminal Record Check (free for volunteers)– https://epatch.state.pa.us/. Select “volunteer.”
- PA Child Abuse History (free for volunteers)– https://www.compass.state.pa.us/cwis/public/home. To begin, select “create an individual account.”
- If you have lived in Pennsylvania for more than 10 years, please complete this Disclosure Statement.
- If you have not lived in Pennsylvania for more than 10 years, you will need a Federal Criminal History Report (FBI-Fingerprinting)-Applicants must register prior to going to the fingerprint site at https://uenroll.identogo.com/. Instructions are available on the website. Service codes are now needed:
For questions about Festival Safe Environment clearances, please contact Joyce Castaldi in the parish office at
[email protected] or 610-269-8294.
