New Castle Business Ledger: Summer Camps

Companies team up on background data

NicheDirectories, LLC, publishers of KidsCamps.com, a searchable index of 14,000 summer campus, and ChoicePoint, a large provider of pre-employment screening services, have teamed up to offer summer camp operators access to background check information.

“This is an exciting move for us, using the power of our information — originally developed for small to mid-sized businesses — to help protect children,” said Dave Cook, vice president of WorkPlace solutions.

NicheDirectories.com online camp job directory, CampJobs.com, currently provides customers with the ability to post job listings and review resumes of job applicants. The addition of the ScreenNow systems provides access to ChoicePoint’s public record databases and produces federal Fair Credit Reporting Act-compliance, pre and continuing employment reports.

“We have been a satisfied customer of both companies for a number of years, using the web hosting services of NicheDirectories to market our camp information and utilizing ChoicePoint’s background screening services to screen our job applicants,” said Tom Rosenberg, assistant director of Blue Star Camps. “We see this partnership as the perfect combination of services. Having these two important services available in one place saves time, and we are assured that the data we receive is of the highest integrity. “

The ScreenNow systems provides ScreenStaff.com customers with access to instant statewide criminal databases where available, supplemented by a national criminal file search, motor vehicle record checks, credit reports, identity verifications, and Social Security verifications, and offers online ordering of onsite drug screening kits.

“Since 1996, we have been developing relationships with camp owners nationwide who have been using our sites as portals for obtaining and posting information about their camps,” said Kim Bregman, CEO and co-founder of NicheDirectories, LLC. “The addition of ChoicePoint’s ScreenNow online background screening service allows camp directors to protect the security of children by providing online access to valuable background information on job applicants and employees.”

NicheDirectories, LLC, online since 1995, is a full-service web presence provider and Internet marketing company that publishes a variety of family and lifestyle-oriented web initiatives including KidsCamps.com, a comprehensive directory of summer programs. The company also publishes the following: CampJobs.com, RetreatSearch.com, GrownUpCamps.com, CampersMall.com and CampDirectorsMall.com. Further information about the company can be obtained at NicheDirectories.com.

ChoicePoint is a provider of identification and credential verification services for making decisions in a fast-paced world.

The company serves insurance, business, government and individual customers, including Fortune 1000 companies, asset-based lenders and professional service providers and federal, state and local governments. Further information can be obtained at choicepoint.net.