JDP recently attended and exhibited at the Little League Baseball and Softball Southwest Regional Roundtable in Houston, Texas.   This is the second of five regional roundtables we will be attending.

As Little League’s preferred background screening vendor, this was a great opportunity to have interactive and meaningful discussions with District Administrators and Assistants to discuss the importance of background screening for youth sports volunteers and coaches as well as SafeSport legislation to help prevent child abuse in youth sports.

Discussions also covered new rules and regulatory changes as well as educational topics for District Administrators and Assistant District Administrators.

What does JDP’s Youth Sports Background Check Report On?

Our sources include:

• National Criminal Records Search looks through over 685 million criminal records and sex offender registries
• Federal, state and local wanted fugitive lists
• FBI terrorist lists
• Department of Public Safety and Department of Corrections
• We even review data from OFAC
• We flag any records we find, so you can make a sound judgement on whether someone can join your team.

It was great to meet with everyone and also give away a Yeti Cooler to lucky winner Arik Riley from New Mexico District 9!

In partnership, JDP and Little League share an important mission:   End Abuse.  Every Child.  Every Day!

To learn more, visit us at jdp.com.

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Focusing on eradicating child abuse in Youth Sports, JDP’s Lance Pshigoda, Senior Vice President of Sales, and Matt Huguenin, Senior Director of Enterprise Sales, recently spoke on the topic of The Evolution of Background Screening in Youth Sports at the United Soccer Coaches and US Youth Soccer 2020 Annual Convention held in Baltimore, MD January 15-19, 2020 .

Billed as “the world’s largest annual gathering of soccer coaches and administrators,” the United Soccer Coaches Convention and US Youth Soccer Workshop draws more than 6,300 coaches and more than 14,000 attendees.  During the five-day conference, there were over 250 education opportunities, including this one given by JDP.

“As a whole, the industry is aware of the issue of sexual abuse of our children and the importance of addressing it directly.  With the introduction of SafeSport and the Congressional mandates, it is at the forefront of youth sports organizations’ agendas in 2020.  Our job as a Consumer Reporting Agency is to provide a fresh perspective on outdated screening practices and introduce innovative solutions that remove this risk for young athletes.  Opportunities like these round table discussions are important for us to hear firsthand about the obstacles organizations face in building new practices and extend our resources to assist all leagues in promoting a safer environment for our children nationwide,” states Pshigoda.

JDP’s presentation “The Evolution of Background Screening in Youth Sports” covered how emerging technologies, working in conjunction with standard screening practices, such as the historic methodology of reporting sexual offender history and criminal record history, can be harnessed to close the gaps in the volunteer screening process.

Simply providing public record data is no longer the best solution.  We need to create a broad consortium and network of organizations banding together and sharing data and best practices across leagues, teams, and all sports to best protect our youth and end abuse.

It’s only together that this problem is solved, and we were delighted at the reception we received from soccer organizations worldwide on this solution.

JDP is on a mission to End Abuse.  Every Child.  Every Day.

For more information, please contact us at https://www.jdp.com/contact/.

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