Parent Involvement
Parents are involved as volunteers in day-to-day duties, whether working in the copy room, the cafetorium, the playground, the classroom, the library, with athletic teams, or helping from home.
Parent volunteers truly enrich our school community. All volunteers are cleared through the Diocesan Safe Environment Program.
What is it? Why do we have this program?
The Safe Environment Program has been adopted by the Diocese of Dallas and St. Mark the Evangelist Parish to provide a safe and secure environment for the minors and vulnerable adults in our faith community; to reduce the possibility of false accusations against clergy, employees, and volunteers; to provide a structure for evaluating a person's suitability to work with minors or vulnerable adults; and to provide a system to respond to a victim and his/her family as well as the accused.
Who needs training?
All school volunteers MUST be Safe Environment trained and cleared to participate in any school volunteer activities, such as room parent, library duty, class trips, prefecting (lunch) duty, field day, coach DPL teams, etc.
How do I get trained?
New Volunteers
1. Click on the attached link and complete the online screening form
https://dallas.setanet.org/screening.php
A background check and a reference check will then be done.
2. Attend a Family of Faith Training Class
For a current schedule of Family of Faith classes, please visit: https://dallas.setanet.org/classes.php
3. Complete a Personal Interview
Contact Toni Jobes at toni.jobes@stmcs.net to schedule an interview.
Volunteer Retraining
Anyone who has already attended a Family of Faith training class, submitted a screening form, and completed an interview MUST complete REtraining annually before they will be cleared to volunteer.
This retraining must be completed annually according to the school calendar.
Retraining can be done online:
1. Go to www.cathdal.org
2. Click on "A Safe Environment"
3. Complete any one of the programs listed
4. Return the documentation to the school office to the attention of Toni Jobes.
Note: All personal information provided will remain confidential. Applicants will be Safe Environment cleared based upon information obtained from the criminal background history, interview process and reference checks. Inquires regarding your status should be directed to Toni Jobes at toni.jobes@stmcs.net .