Child Protection Resources
Downloads:
Instructions for obtaining clearances for the first time
Child Abuse Clearance
https://www.compass.state.pa.us/cwis/public/home
Before you start, you should have the following information readily available and also have access to your email account.
1. Previous addresses since 1975
2. Names of everyone who lived with you at any time since 1975 to present
3. Previous names used since 1975
You will be creating an individual account with a username and password. Please file this information in a safe place along with your own copies of your clearances.
https://epatch.state.pa.us/Home.jsp
You will do a new record check.
FBI fingerprinting/Residency affidavit
FBI fingerprinting needed only if you’ve lived outside of Pennsylvania in the last 10 years.
Otherwise, please print and sign the Residency Affidavit found at the link above or on page 15 or the child protection policy.
FBI fingerprinting link: https://uenroll.identogo.com/
You will need to register and schedule a fingerprinting appointment.
Instructions for renewing clearances soon expiring
Child Abuse Clearance
You will need the username and password you previously created to access your individual account for the Child Welfare Portal on this website: https://www.compass.state.pa.us/cwis/public/home
Update any information that needs to be updated then resubmit
PA Criminal record check
You will need to do a new record check.
https://epatch.state.pa.us/Home.jsp
FBI fingerprinting
FBI fingerprinting link: https://uenroll.identogo.com/
You will need to register and schedule a fingerprinting appointment.
Once you have obtained all of the required clearances please hand them in to someone on the Child Protection Committee. These are the four documents we need from you: PA Criminal Record Check, PA Child Abuse History Clearance, FBI check OR PA Residency Affidavit (found at the link above or page 15 of the Child Protection Policy) and signed Acknowledgment of Child Safety Protection Policy (found at the link above or on page 16 of the Child Protection Policy).
Thank you,
Delmar and Rosie Nolt, Wilmer and Anna Mary Zimmerman
Parkview Child Protection Committee