Welcome to the Background Check Central Unit (BCCU)
Our staff process over 23,000 background check requests as well as 800 fingerprint based checks each month. BCCU conducts background checks for agencies providing services to vulnerable adults, minors, and children such as:
- Nursing homes, boarding homes, and adult family homes;
- Adult in-home care providers;
- Child care centers, in-home child care providers;
- Residential programs for children and youth;
- Services for people with developmental disabilities; and
- DSHS contracted services.
You can receive helpful updates by joining the BCCU ListServ. This email method provides information on various background check processes (current policy issues, helpful hints to assure proper form completion, system downtimes, turnaround times for processing background checks, etc.). Click here to join our ListServ. If you are from outside DSHS and would like to receive this information, please email your request to bccuinquiry@dshs.wa.gov
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