FLORIDA

Category Requirements
Clergy (priests, deacons, deacon candidates, and seminarians)
  • Virtus online training https://www.virtusonline.org/virtus/reg_0.cfm?theme=0

(for original registration.  Site then leads you to subsequent logins and programs)

  • Fingerprinting at a location approved by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (an internet search of fingerprinting sites in Florida yields the location of multiple sites throughout the state.)
  • Comprehensive FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement background check http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0400-0499/0402/Sections/0402.302.html (The site is comprehensive and provides definitions, explanations, and exceptions. Citation XXIX F.S. 402.302 et seq Public Health:  Health and Human Services)
Parish/mission employees • Virtus online training https://www.virtusonline.org/virtus/reg_0.cfm?theme=0
(for original registration. Site then leads you to subsequent logins and programs)
• Fingerprinting at a location approved by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (an internet search of fingerprinting sites in Florida yields the location of multiple sites throughout the state.)
• Comprehensive FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement background check http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0400-0499/0402/Sections/0402.302.html (The site is comprehensive and provides definitions, explanations, and exceptions. Citation XXIX F.S. 402.302 et seq Public Health: Health and Human Services)
Parish/mission volunteers

(volunteers under the age of 18 may not work with children unless supervised.  These volunteers do not require fingerprinting or background check)

 • Virtus online training https://www.virtusonline.org/virtus/reg_0.cfm?theme=0
(for original registration. Site then leads you to subsequent logins and programs)
• Fingerprinting at a location approved by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (an internet search of fingerprinting sites in Florida yields the location of multiple sites throughout the state.)
• Comprehensive FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement background check http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0400-0499/0402/Sections/0402.302.html (The site is comprehensive and provides definitions, explanations, and exceptions. Citation XXIX F.S. 402.302 et seq Public Health: Health and Human Services)

Important Information

Unless otherwise stipulated, the copies of the documents should be submitted to the Pastor/Administrator of the applicant’s parish/mission to be kept on file there as well as mailed to the eparchy’s Safe Environment Coordinator, Rev. Lubomir Zhybak at the following address (all the costs connected with the obtaining and mailing of the documents are to be covered by the individual’s parish/mission):

Rev. Lubomir Zhybak
Office of Children and Youth Protection
c/o Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church
526 West Rayen Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502

or e-mailed to: [email protected]

If possible, please mail/e-mail the required documents together.