The Gentleman's Club
Our Safeguarding
Commitment
Mentorship for minors carries a duty of care. We treat safeguarding as our license to operate — the standard that makes the safe path the only path, built into the platform rather than filed in a binder.
Safety First, Always
The Legacy Foundation serves young men, and a youth program earns trust by how it protects. We adopt — voluntarily, as a private 501(c)(3) standard of care — the screening, supervision, and reporting practices used by the most serious youth-development organizations in the country. We don’t claim that every moment of contact is on a platform; that wouldn’t be honest. We claim something stronger: the safe path is the only path that advances, and our systems enforce it.
How We Protect
Six commitments, enforced
These aren't aspirations. Each is built into how a match is screened, supervised, and kept — or paused.
Background checks, then continuous monitoring
Every covered adult clears a Sterling Volunteers youth-development screening — criminal history, the national sex-offender registry, and state registries — before any access to a young man. Checks aren't one-time: we re-screen at least annually, and Sterling's continuous monitoring auto-updates the record. A covered adult is matchable only while a current, passing check exists, enforced in our database, not just our policy. A lapsed check auto-pauses any active match.
No private, off-platform one-on-one
In-person interaction happens only as supervised, ratio-compliant group events in observable settings. All one-on-one mentorship is virtual and monitored. We hold a strict no-secrets, parental-transparency rule: a mentor may never ask a young man to keep communication secret from his parents or staff. We're honest that some scheduling contact happens off-platform — covered adults must keep it transparent and professional, and route substantive conversation back to monitored channels.
Mandated-reporter training, before youth contact
Every covered adult completes mandated-reporter training and our safeguarding, abuse-recognition, and grooming-awareness onboarding before any contact with a young man. Reasonable suspicion of harm is reported immediately to the proper authorities — it's a personal legal duty we never discourage or route around. Training is refreshed annually and required for continued matchability.
Supervision and a logged check-in cadence
Matches are supervised. Match supervisors keep a documented check-in cadence — monthly in the first year, then quarterly — and are the first responders to any concern. Every covered adult signs a code of conduct with zero tolerance for private unsupervised contact, secret messaging, or any boundary violation.
A real guardian portal
Parents and guardians consent before any contact and keep genuine visibility into sessions, progress, and a direct line to staff — for the entire journey, not just at intake. Consent is recorded with signer identity and timestamp, and revocation is always honored.
The two-adult rule, always
No activity involving a young man is ever supervised by a single adult. The two-adult rule is absolute, and minimum cleared-adult ratios are computed by trip type and the youngest participant's age band — never below two adults. A roster cannot lock until the ratio is met with cleared adults and every consent slate is complete.
The standards we hold ourselves to
Our practices are modeled on recognized frameworks — the National Child Protection Act and Volunteers for Children Act for screening; NSOPW and state sex-offender registries; New York and Florida mandated-reporter law; supervision ratios drawn from the NYC DOE Chancellor’s Regulation; and MENTOR’s Elements of Effective Practice alongside SafeSport-style abuse-prevention norms.
We carry appropriate abuse/molestation and general-liability insurance, retain records under strict access controls, and review this commitment at least annually and after any serious incident. If you ever have a concern, our safeguarding team is reachable directly at mentorship@supportlegacy.org. If a young man is in immediate danger, call 911 first.
Trust, by design
Enroll a young man knowing the safeguards come first — or step forward as a mentor and meet the standard with us.