icouldbe.org - Mentoring the next generation through the internet

icouldbe.org is an online mentoring program that connects at-risk students from low income communities with mentors who positively impact their goals and plans for the future. People from all walks of life and every profession, volunteer to be online mentors with icouldbe.org and are paired with students who have an interest in their careers and experiences. icouldbe.org supports the educational and career development of young people by providing each teenager with upto three caring fields who guide them either towards college or the world of work.

Online Identity Issues

icouldbe.org students meet and interact with mentors online, free from any distinctions pertaining to age, socioeconomic status, race, ability or disability. Hence, they needed an identity verification/background check system that would help them create a safe online environment for interactions among mentors and mentees.

Identity Solution

Trufina partnered with icouldbe.org to provide their mentors with identity verification and background check services to their mentors. Thereby, every mentor who registers with icouldbe.org has to pass through the most rigorous set of verification techniques in order to prove that they are who they say they are. Along with the ID verification, mentors are also run through the Trufina background check process which consists of a comprehensive check on a mentor's national, federal, state and county records. Hence, using the Trufina ID Server API, icouldbe.org can securely verify the fact that every mentor is who they say they are, and that they possess a clean background.

Outcome

Partnering with Trufina has shown that icouldbe.org is a leader in creating a safe online environment for children. With a Trufina verification in hand, prospective mentors are representing to the mentoring community that they are who they say they are.

As an added bonus, after being approved by icouldbe.org, mentors can then choose to share the information in their Trufina account with any other service or volunteer programs that require an identification and background check, through their Trufina account.

Hence, members of the icouldbe.org community can be rest assured that they will be interacting with people with the right background, and are fit to interact with children.

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