We need LOTS of safe-environment-compliant adults to help host NCYC for the thousands of youth and adults who participate from around the country. Volunteer roles vary and include assisting at registration, with clergy and VIPs, with hands-on activities in the exhibit hall, keeping participants moving safely throughout the convention center, and helping participants find sessions and activities. If you are fluent in ASL or Spanish, we also need interpreters.
All volunteers must comply with their home diocese’s safe environment policies, including up-to-date training and a third-party background check.
If you minister or volunteer in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, we can verify your status directly with the Archdiocese. If you are cleared for ministry with young people in another diocese, we will provide you with a form your parish, school, or diocesan safe environment coordinator must complete to verify your compliance. Please note that the verification form does not constitute volunteer registration.
Become a Volunteer
We will begin accepting volunteer applications in June.
Now is the perfect time to confirm your safe environment status with your home diocese. If your clearance expires on or before November 30, 2025, you must update your safe environment education and background check before we can accept your volunteer application. If you are not active in your home diocese, please contact us for alternate educational courses and background screening options.
Clergy Letters of Suitability
If you are a priest who wishes to provide sacramental ministry at NCYC (concelebrate at Mass, hear confessions) or a deacon who wishes to vest and assist at Mass, please have your bishop or your religious order superior send a Letter of Suitability to the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. The letter should reference your suitability for ministry, including completion of safe environment training and current background status.
These letters should be addressed to:
Reverend Monsignor William Stumpf
Vicar General
Attn: Office of Clergy
Archdiocese of Indianapolis
1400 N. Meridian Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Email the letter to [email protected]. Questions regarding letters of suitability can be emailed to this address as well.
If you have priests in your group (or are a priest) who wish to provide sacramental ministry at NCYC (concelebrate at Mass, hear confessions) or deacons who wish to vest and assist at Mass, please have your bishop or their religious order superior send a Letter of Suitability on their behalf to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The letter should reference the clergy’s suitability for ministry, including completion of safe environment training and current background status.
These letters should be addressed to:
Attn: Office of Vicar of Clergy
Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Title: Helpful Maps
If you are not familiar with the Indiana Convention Center or parking options in downtown Indianapolis, check out these maps:
