volunteer liaisons
Successful school volunteer and business
partners programs have a designated Volunteer
Coordinator whose role is to help parents, community
members and business people feel welcome to your school
environment. It doesn’t take much to make a great
impression—a smile, clear expectations and an engaging
activity are usually all it takes. The Department
of Community and Family Engagement (CFE) employees are
here to help you and your volunteers. Thank you for
being an ambassador for DCPS.
Volunteer Forms, Manuals and Other Important Information
In order to decrease the
turn-around time for the background screening process,
please encourage your volunteers to apply for their
volunteer clearance via the easy on-line process.
Successful volunteer programs
have a plan for the best use of their volunteers’ time.
Below is a form that schools may choose to use to help
determine the best volunteer activities with the best
volunteers.
Policies are in place to keep
children safe however, there are times when volunteers
may not have received their cards in time for an event
or have lost them. We want to be as friendly and
welcoming as possible for our volunteers. During
these times, with your Principal’s permission, you have
two options: First, if your volunteer is sure the
he or she has submitted an application but has not
received the volunteer card, please call our office at
390-2960 for our background screeners to check our
system for a cleared screening and give you a verbal OK.
If the volunteer has not applied and there is a
reasonable time before the volunteering event, please
ask them to go online and if possible let them use a
school computer to do so; Secondly, if the volunteering
event is time-sensitive, then with the Principal’s
permission, you may go to the below link and check the
person against the sexual predator list.
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Easy Steps to use the Sexual Offender Database Online:
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Go to
www.fdle.state.fl.us
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Look for
SYSTEMS on the left-hand side
of page
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Click on
Sexual Offender Database link
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Click red box
titled Offender Search
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Click blue box
titled Offender Search, then standard
button
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Enter first and
last name
The best scenario for all
involved is to provide your parents and interested
community members with the steps to- be background
screened and encourage them to take these steps allowing
as much time as possible before the date they wish to
volunteer (two weeks is a good guideline).
Teachers know when field
trips are planned, encourage them to remind their
parents to have their volunteer cards handy or complete
the volunteer background screening well in advance.
2011-12 Award Nomination
School Award Criteria Nomination
Forms
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