Due to our safe environment verification requirements, volunteer registration is now closed. We are grateful for your interest and welcome you to mark your calendar for the next NCYC in November 2026.
Become a Volunteer
Volunteers are needed for NCYC!
Volunteer roles vary and include assisting at registration, working with clergy and VIPs, participating in 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 are cleared for ministry with young people in a Catholic diocese, we will provide you with a form that 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.
Safe Environment Compliance
Now is the perfect time to confirm your safe environment status with your home diocese. If your clearance expires on or before November 1, 2026, 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 Los Angeles. The letter should reference your 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
Email the letter to [email protected]
Questions regarding letters of suitability can be emailed to this address as well.
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.
