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• DCF - Florida Department Of Children and Families
  Beginning August 1, 2010 HB 7069 took effect and changed critical aspects of the current background screening process. The most significant change to our providers is that employers will not be able to employ applicants for positions of special trust or responsibility until the applicants are cleared by a complete background screen to include a fingerprint-based search of criminal records in Florida and nationally. In order to timely meet the needs of our partners, the Department is requesting that providers ask applicants to submit fingerprints using electronic LiveScan through private vendors such as Advanced Screening Services. LLC.
  
• ORI and OCI Numbers:
  You need to contact your regional coordinator to obtain those numbers. A list of regional contacts is located on the DCF background screening web site.
  http://www.dcf.state.fl.us/admin/backgroundscreening/docs/Regional  Contacts.pdf
• DCF -  Who Should be Screened:
  
  • Persons considered for placement of dependent children
  • Employees that serve children, child care facility, family day care home, family foster home, residential child caring agency, child placing agency, summer day and 24 hour camp owners or operators, employees and volunteers that work over 10 hours a month.
  • Any direct care provider, 18 years of age or older who has direct face-to-face contact with a client while providing services to the client or has access to a client’s living areas or to a client’s funds or personal property.
  • Employees within mental health facilities and employees providing care for children and adults – directors, professional clinicians, staff members and volunteers
  • For unlicensed staff, such as dietary and custodial staff, who work in a licensed general hospital, pursuant to Ch. 395, F.S., whose duties require them to work within the psychiatric unit/ward of the hospital, these staff and volunteers are required to comply with Level 2 background screening requirements. These unlicensed staff would meet the definition of "Mental Health Personnel" according to s. 394.4572 (1) (a), F.S. and must comply with the background screening requirements in Ch. 435 and 408, F.S. They would also be required to comply with any other screening provisions applicable to Chapter 395, F.S.”
  • All owners, directors, and chief financial officers of service providers. All service provider personnel who have direct contact with children receiving services or with adults who are developmentally disabled receiving services. Members of a foster family and persons residing with the foster family who are over the age of 18. A volunteer who assists on an intermittent basis that totals 40 or more hours per month.
  • Juvenile delinquency program employees providing care for children
• ADVANCED SCREENING SERVICES LLC is FDLE approved live scan vendor providing Level 2 background screening and fingerprinting services for AHCA, DCF, APD, VECHS, DBPR, DOEA providers, Name Change Petitioners and to many others.