OHIO

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; the site then leads you to subsequent logins and programs)

·         Fingerprinting and background check through the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations (BCI) using WebCheck https://ohio.gov/business/resources/background-checks /

https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Business/Services-for-Business/WebCheck/Webcheck-Community-Listing (for fingerprinting locations):

o   If a person has lived in Ohio for the last 5 years: BCI background check (code 2151 86 – Out of Home Child Care).

o   If a person has not lived in Ohio for the last 5 years: BCI/FBI background check (code 2151 86 – Out of Home Child Care).
Parish/mission employees ·         Virtus online training https://www.virtusonline.org/virtus/reg_0.cfm?theme=0

(for original registration; the site then leads you to subsequent logins and programs)

·         Fingerprinting and background check through the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations (BCI) using WebCheck https://ohio.gov/business/resources/background-checks /

https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Business/Services-for-Business/WebCheck/Webcheck-Community-Listing (for fingerprinting locations):

o   If a person has lived in Ohio for the last 5 years: BCI background check (code 2151 86 – Out of Home Child Care).

o   If a person has not lived in Ohio for the last 5 years: BCI/FBI background check (code 2151 86 – Out of Home Child Care).
Parish/mission volunteers (volunteers under the age of 18 may not work with children unless supervised.  These volunteers do not require fingerprinting or background checks) ·         Virtus online training https://www.virtusonline.org/virtus/reg_0.cfm?theme=0

(for original registration; the site then leads you to subsequent logins and programs)

·         Fingerprinting and background check through the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations (BCI) using WebCheck https://ohio.gov/business/resources/background-checks /

https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Business/Services-for-Business/WebCheck/Webcheck-Community-Listing (for fingerprinting locations):

o   If a person has lived in Ohio for the last 5 years: BCI background check (code 2151 86 – Out of Home Child Care).

o   If a person has not lived in Ohio for the last 5 years: BCI/FBI background check (code 2151 86 – Out of Home Child Care).

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.