Here at St. Malachy, the safety of our parishioners is a great priority. In order to partake in any parish activities involving the youth, elderly, or disabled members of our church, volunteers and employees must take the proper steps.
The Archdiocese mandates that criminal history background checks be conducted for all employees and volunteers
who may have unsupervised contact with a child, the elderly or persons with disabilities.
Criminal Background Check-Teens
Criminal-Background-Check-Adult
Please complete the correct form of basic information about you, which assures the best possible program and safety for all.
High school students who wish to volunteer at any AOD parish or school must complete Virtus Online workshops: Healthy
This module is accessible online through Virtus (virtusonline.org) and is intended to help youth identify the differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships.
The module also equips teens to follow a plan to do the right thing for themselves and others upon recognizing an unhealthy situation.
This module takes approximately 35 minutes to complete. To access the module, teen volunteers need to register on the Virtus site. After inputting their date of birth, the system will know they are minor and will assign them the Healthy Relationships
Before or after your first Protecting God’s Children session, you will need to register with the VIRTUS Program.
This is required of all participants. If you do not
have Internet access, and cannot temporarily gain Internet
access via school, university, library, work, home or other
means, please register with your Facilitator or your VIRTUS
Coordinator.
Follow these instructions to register with VIRTUS: