To volunteer for Little League, no matter what career you are in, you must still have a background check run through the Little League program yearly.
To do this, please sign in to your Sports Connect account through our website (this is the account you used to register your player). If you are volunteering and do not have a player (like a grandparent, sibling, etc.,) just create an account.
Once you have created an account, you should be shown an option to either choose your player, or volunteer. Choose the volunteer option and then choose the role or roles that you would like to volunteer for. We can use all the help we can get in as many places as possible.
Once once you have done that, you will be asked a series of questions and asked to upload a picture of your drivers license. Please do that and submit. We will be notified that you have completed this task.
Now, start checking your email, including and especially your spam folder from JD Palatine or JDP. Please follow the link in that email (they do that so we do not have access to your personal information) and answer the questions. Once the background check is completed, we will be notified.
Little League also requires that any volunteer who will have repeated access to the players take a yearly abuse awareness course through them, and a one time Diamond Leader coarse
Follow the link to create an account with Little League University https://www.littleleague.org/university/training/
These free courses takes about 15 minutes to complete and you will receive certificates of completion afterwards. Please forward these certificates to our Safety Officer. These must be on file with us before any volunteer is allowed to be around any of the players.
We understand that in a time where volunteers are so very hard to come by, Little League has just added another layer of security to help our players be safe and have a good experience. We appreciate all of our volunteers and everything they do to help our Churchland kids.