By Florida Catholic staff - Florida Catholic
121,492:
- Approximate number of Virtus trained adults in the Archdiocese of Miami since 2002. It is approximate because many did not register online in the early years: 86,492 did register online and an estimated 35,000 did not.
50,000-55,000:
- Children each year in the archdiocese who received either two Virtus Teaching Boundary Safety lessons or the Guidebook or both.
90:
- Number of Virtus facilitators in the archdiocese who lead the adult Virtus sessions.
318:
- Number of local coordinators in charge of compliance and record-keeping of the Safe Environment Policy at their parish, school or site in the archdiocese.
9 and 227:
- Number of Virtus training sessions offered in the archdiocese when the program first started in 2003 and in the last calendar year, 2018. The highest total was 282 sessions offered in 2010. The average since 2003: around 197 per year.
7:
- Rank of Archdiocese of Miami in number of adults who have been Virtus trained, out of 257 dioceses and organizations using the program.
10,127:
- Number of priests, deacons, religious, seminarians and lay employees, plus volunteers and contractors, in the archdiocese who were fingerprinted in fiscal year 2017-2018 (July 1-June 30).
80,095:
- Number of priests, deacons, religious, seminarians and lay employees, plus volunteers and contractors, in the archdiocese who were fingerprinted between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2018. Earlier records show 30,950 people fingerprinted before December 2008.
$42.25:
- Current cost to the archdiocese of fingerprinting a volunteer; must be repeated every 5 years.
$50.25:
- Current cost to the archdiocese of fingerprinting an employee; must be repeated every 5 years.
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