- Background Screening
Camp Background Checks
Camp Background Checks is a screening provider focused specifically on camps and RV parks, supporting camps across North America since 1994. Its services cover criminal history, sex-offender registry checks, social-media screening, driving records, and customized drug screening, bundled into camp-oriented packages with applicant-pay options. Based in the Kansas City area, it markets fast, paperless, FCRA-compliant screening with live customer support.
- Background Screening
CampCheckUSA
CampCheckUSA provides background screening for year-round, summer, day, youth, sports, and seasonal camps, with an Applicant Access portal that lets candidates track and download their own reports. It offers no-contract, no-monthly-fee accounts and spreadsheet-based bulk ordering. It appears affiliated with the TopChecked/govbackgroundchecks screening network.
- Background Screening
Mind Your Business (MYB)
Mind Your Business (MYB) is a background-screening firm founded in 1996 by Karen Caruso and based in Hendersonville, North Carolina, with a dedicated summer-camp screening practice. Notably, MYB began as a childcare/nanny screening service before expanding to serve enterprises and government, giving it deep roots in vetting people who work with children. It is a certified woman-owned small business offering criminal, child-abuse-registry, drug, and driving-record checks with ATS integration.
- Background Screening
Sterling Volunteers
Sterling Volunteers, formerly Verified Volunteers, is a background-screening platform built specifically for nonprofits and youth-serving organizations, including camps. Its model lets volunteers own and reshare their vetted background check across multiple organizations, cutting cost and turnaround. It partners with Points of Light and serves well-known youth organizations, with screening tailored to volunteers working with children.
- Background Screening
Sure Check Background Screening
Sure Check Background Screening provides employment background checks and screening services, with a focus on speed, accuracy, and direct customer support. Founded by a former educator, the company markets itself to organizations—including youth-serving programs—that need reliable screening of the adults they hire.
- Background Screening
True Hire
True Hire is a Canton, Ohio background-screening company with more than two decades of experience and a dedicated 'Background Checks for Camps' program offering budget-conscious packages for camp employees and volunteers. It provides FCRA-compliance support, full-service compliance packages, fingerprinting, and a range of screening tools, and also works extensively with churches and nonprofits. Its camp-specific packages and fast turnaround target seasonal hiring crunches.
Questions camps ask about this category
- What is background screening?
- Background screening is the checking a camp runs on staff and volunteers before they start: criminal record searches, sex offender registry checks, identity and right-to-work verification, driving records where staff drive, and reference or employment checks. Turnaround time, the counties or jurisdictions searched, and re-screening between seasons are the practical differences between providers.
- What should a camp look for?
- Ask how the work is scoped and what a normal year with them looks like: who does the setup, what happens in your busiest fortnight, what the exit looks like if you leave, and what the price does when your numbers change. Ask two or three companies the same questions and compare the answers rather than the brochures. We don't nominate a best one, here or anywhere.
Nothing above compares these companies to each other, because a directory entry is not a basis for that comparison. What it is good for is knowing who exists. Each company's listing shows who it says it works with, in its own words, and any questions it has answered in public. Start there, then ask the two or three of them the questions your own year actually turns on.
Last updated 10 October 2026. Companies are listed alphabetically; the order carries no meaning.