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Volunteers assist the school in providing for the development and education of the students and provide a valuable need to the school.
Volunteer Background Checks - Megan’s Law Screening
a. All volunteers who work at the school site or in school-sponsored activities, twelve (12) or more hours a month, must be screened pursuant to the identification process established under California’s Megan’s Law.
b. All volunteers who participate in any overnight experiences (e.g. environmental educational camp) must be screened and fingerprinted pursuant to the identification process established under California’s Megan’s Law. The screening results must be returned to the school by the Department of Justice prior to participation in the overnight field trip.
In addition, any other volunteer who has contact with or access to children may be screened.
Conviction of a sexual crime will bar an individual from volunteering in either of the capacities listed above.
All parents/relatives/caregivers who plan to participate in class parties, field trips, or work on campus as volunteers must comply with the Safe Environment for Children Training program, Shield the Vulnerable.
Health Screening
All volunteers who work at the school site twelve (12) or more hours a month must have TB testing.
It is required that all volunteers submit evidence of freedom from active tuberculosis, based on an X-ray of the lungs or an approved intradermal negative tuberculin test taken within the immediate six (6) months and every two years thereafter. All returning volunteers shall submit evidence of freedom from active tuberculosis every four (4) years.(If a new volunteer has not had a PPD test in more than four (4) years, and that volunteer is over the age of thirty-five (35) years; a two (2) step skin test procedure is required.) If a skin test is positive, a chest x-ray is needed, one (1) time only. Therefore, a symptom screening is recommended each year, documented by a physician.
Volunteer Code
Volunteers serve in a variety of capacities which include, but are not limited to: School Board and committees, Parent Teacher Group and committees, classroom assistance to teachers, Room Parents, field trip assistants, and other activities relating to the gifts and talents of the volunteer population.
Volunteers serving in the school will support and model the moral teachings of the Catholic Church and function faithfully within the mission and structures of the school, parish, and Diocese with proper respect for those serving in ministries.
Volunteers work in a collaborative role with others ministering to the development of the children and the school as an educational institution. Volunteers are asked to recognize confidentiality as a living principle and respect the dignity of those with whom they work and come into contact.
Classroom volunteers are under the supervision of the homeroom teacher.
Volunteers accept responsibility to use contacts made through the school in such a way so as not to disrupt the peace, order, and tranquility of the school community.
Should volunteers come into conflict on school/parish related issues, it is the responsibility of both to resolve the dispute through personal diplomacy and/or an executive decision by school Principal and/or the Pastor of the parish.
Any person who has a conflict with a school/parish volunteer outside of the boundaries of school/parish activities must settle that dispute outside of and without involving or using school/parish resources.
For liability reasons, siblings who do not attend St. Leander School may not accompany the classroom volunteer during time worked.