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Announcements from the Westchester County Youth Bureau to Funded Agencies and Programs |
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The Westchester County Youth Bureau invite you to submit information for our newsletter such as poetry or other creative works by young people, articles about outstanding youth programs, announcements about events on youth issues, photos of and about youth with captions (and a signed release form). Please e-mail submissions to sll1@westchestergov.com, or mail to Westchester County Youth Bureau Newsletter, 112 E. Post Rd., room. 110 A, White Plains, NY 10601. Questions? Call (914) 995-2746 or Contact Sue Lerich. To view and/or print documents in .pdf format, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe Systems. This software is free and you may download it here. SAFETYNET: GET FBI FINGERPRINT BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR $18 Any mentoring organization must take precautions to carefully screen any prospective volunteers. An important part of that screening process is the criminal background check. Yet, it can be confusing, difficult, and expensive to get a thorough background check. A solution is now available: SafetyNET. Through this pilot program, mentoring organizations can obtain FBI fingerprint background checks on their volunteers. The cost is $18 per volunteer, and the turnaround time is two weeks. FBI fingerprint background checks are the most complete type of background check available - they include federal crimes plus the majority of records from every state. SafetyNET is the result of several years of advocacy work from the mentoring community. It is proof that when mentoring organizations work together and contact Congress, results happen. To learn more about how you can join SafetyNET, and better protect the young people in your program, please visit The Westchester County Youth Bureau has a page titled "LINKS TO: Youth Programs; Youth & Family Programs; Youth Development Programs in Westchester County" for links to other programs for youth and youth and families in Westchester. If you are interested in having the web address for your Youth Program, or your Youth and Family Program included on the page of links please [Click Here].
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