Safety & Trust
Six commitments. No fine print.
You are trusting us with your child. Here is exactly what we do to deserve it — written plainly, because safety rules that need decoding are not safety rules.
Our safety commitments
Background checks before anyone leads
Every Troop Leader completes a background check before they serve — not after, not eventually. A leader whose check lapses steps back from sessions until it is current again.
Training before the first session, for every role
No volunteer — teen or adult — joins a session before completing safety training for their role. Knowing what to do is not optional, and neither is knowing who to ask.
Two-adult visibility, always
No volunteer is ever alone one-on-one with a child out of sight. Two-adult supervision is the rule at every session, not the exception, and our platform enforces it before a session can even be logged.
Mandatory reporting, taken seriously
Our leaders and volunteers acknowledge their legal duty to report suspected abuse or neglect directly to state authorities. Internal processes never replace that duty — they exist alongside it.
Incident reporting and follow-up
Anything safety-related gets documented the day it happens and followed up until it is resolved. Families are always notified about incidents involving their child.
Photo and media consent
Images of your child are never used without your signed release. No release, no photo — there are no exceptions to this.
There’s more where this came from
These commitments are the public summary of a much longer document. Members can read our full Child Safety Guide inside the SparkTroops platform.