Parents/Volunteers Expectations
- Parents/Volunteers are expected to support the school in creating a community of acceptance through empathy and inclusion, and to actively encourage their child to be a positive member of the school.
- Parents/Volunteers who become aware that their child is being teased, excluded or bullied, or who suspect that their child may be the perpetrator of bullying, should contact the teacher or principal immediately.
- Parents/Volunteers must participate in some sort of advocate training.
- Parents/Volunteers have a responsibility to support the school’s anti-bullying policy.
- Parents/Volunteers have a responsibility to participate in anti-bullying awareness training.
- Parents/Volunteers who serve as yard duty supervisors or classroom volunteers have the same responsibility as staff to monitor students, and report acts of teasing, bullying, and exclusion.
Parents/Volunteers Requirements
Please note that all volunteers must complete the documents. (BOTH parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors, etc)
- TB Skin test: California State Law requires that anyone doing volunteer work at school must undergo a tuberculin, PPD, skin test. Verification that volunteers are free from this condition should be brought to the office. This test must be repeated every two years to ensure our personal health and that of our children.
- Virtus certificate: The Oakland Diocesan Safe Environment for Children Project has been developed in cooperation with the Oakland Diocesan Presbyteral Council in compliance with the adoption of the Charter for Protection of Children and Young People developed at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, June 2002. Adherence to the policy and implementation of the project is a mandate from Bishop Barber.
- Sign on to Virtus.org and complete the training course.
- Print the certificate of completion at the conclusion of the training and bring a copy to school office
- All volunteers who work at the school site or in school sponsored activities must be screened pursuant to the identification process established under California’s Megan’s law.
- Families who have received training for Shield the Vulnerable do not have to do Virtus training this year.
- Live scan: All volunteers must be Live scanned (fingerprinted for a background check) through the Oakland Diocese. Once you have been live scanned within the diocese, you will not need to do this again.
- If you have a volunteer who has already completed the above requirements for another ministry within the parish (CYO, Eucharistic Ministry, Religious Education catechist, etc) please call the school office and let us know.
Please note that all volunteers must complete the documents. (BOTH parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors, etc)
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Volunteer Code
Volunteers serve to enhance the school’s ability to provide for the students’ development and to benefit the school. They serve in a variety of capacities, which include, but are not limited to: School Advisory Council and committees, Parents’ Association board and Committees, Fundraising Committees, classroom assistance to teachers, hot lunch program, Room Parents, field trip chaperones, and other activities relating to the talents and gifts of the volunteer population.
Volunteers serving in the school will support and model the moral teachings of the Catholic Church and function faithfully within the mission and structures of the school, parish, and Diocese with proper respect for those serving in ministries.
Volunteers work in a collaborative role with others ministering to the development of the children and the school as an educational institution. Volunteers are asked to recognize confidentiality as a living principle and respect the dignity of those with whom they work and come into contact.
Volunteers accept responsibility to use contacts made through the school in such a way so as not to disrupt the peace, order, and tranquility of the school community. Should volunteers come into conflict on school/parish related issues, it is the responsibility of both to resolve the dispute through personal diplomacy and/or an executive decision by the school Principal and/or the Pastor of the parish.
Any person who has a conflict with a school/parish volunteer outside of the boundaries of school/parish activities must settle that dispute outside of and without involving or using school/parish resources.
Volunteers serve to enhance the school’s ability to provide for the students’ development and to benefit the school. They serve in a variety of capacities, which include, but are not limited to: School Advisory Council and committees, Parents’ Association board and Committees, Fundraising Committees, classroom assistance to teachers, hot lunch program, Room Parents, field trip chaperones, and other activities relating to the talents and gifts of the volunteer population.
Volunteers serving in the school will support and model the moral teachings of the Catholic Church and function faithfully within the mission and structures of the school, parish, and Diocese with proper respect for those serving in ministries.
Volunteers work in a collaborative role with others ministering to the development of the children and the school as an educational institution. Volunteers are asked to recognize confidentiality as a living principle and respect the dignity of those with whom they work and come into contact.
Volunteers accept responsibility to use contacts made through the school in such a way so as not to disrupt the peace, order, and tranquility of the school community. Should volunteers come into conflict on school/parish related issues, it is the responsibility of both to resolve the dispute through personal diplomacy and/or an executive decision by the school Principal and/or the Pastor of the parish.
Any person who has a conflict with a school/parish volunteer outside of the boundaries of school/parish activities must settle that dispute outside of and without involving or using school/parish resources.