National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) Founded in 2003 as a non-profit trade association, NAPBS serves to represent the interest of companies offering employment and background screening. NAPBS offers an opportunity for qualified companies to participate in shaping the body of knowledge and reputations impacting our futures. NAPBS gives the screening industry the ability to effectively demonstrate its competence, reliability and willingness to adopt standards. NAPBS is the best means to associate those companies able and willing to conform to standards and to meet the highest expectations of our clients and law-makers.
	ConcernedCRAs ConcernedCRAs is a group of like-minded CRA's (Consumer Reporting Agencies) who believe that certain data practices employed by some CRA's place our profession at risk. Some employment background screening firms send the sensitive personal information (i.e. social security numbers and financial account information) off-shore to be processed. We believe that sending such information off-shore places both applicants and employers at risk and should be avoided whenever possible. Alternatively, when personal information is sent to other countries, applicants and employers should be made aware of this practice. In addition, some employment background screening firms sell "national criminal records databases" to employers without appropriate safeguards to ensure that the information they are delivering is accurate and up to date. We believe that criminal records databases are valuable sources of information if they are used in a responsible manner. We are concerned that these practices do not appropriately protect employment applicants from avoidable harm. Likewise, employers are placed at increased risk of litigation and public relations problems when their employment background screening partners employ these practices. For a more detailed description of our concerns, please visit www.concernedcras.com.
	Form I-9 Compliance Form I-9 Compliance provides the newest, most efficient methods of responding to the federal Immigration Reform and Control Act and enables employers to easily conduct legal right to work Form I-9 employment verifications on new employees.
	Leadership Management Institute LMI is an international firm that focuses on enhancing performance and improving productivity. As part of their services, they provide world-class assessment tools that help employers of all sizes and in a myriad of industries achieve greater growth, profitability, and improved product and service quality. LMI’s assessments are accurate, job related tools for pre-employment selection as well as performance improvement and employee development. These assessments have been validated and enjoy more than 40 years of continuous use in a business environment.
	National Association for Prevention of Workplace Violence As a leader in the area of occupational violence prevention, the Institute serves as a center for research, consulting, training, and communication. Their mission is to educate employers, unions and employees about the growing threat of violence in the workplace and how to effectively deal with it. They focus on preventative efforts and prepare clients to respond appropriately should an incident of violence occur. The statement "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" was never truer when considering that an average of approximately 1,000 people annually have been killed on the job since 1990, up from an average of 750 in the 8O's.