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Where to Find Young Men – Child Support Quarterly
Child support agencies struggle to find ways to reach young men and communicate with them about paternity and child support before they become embroiled in the child support system. The outreach efforts conducted to date at hospitals and birthing centers, prenatal programs, and WIC programs, are typically sparsely attended by men (See companion article, “Outreaching Read More
Issue(s): Economic Security & Healthcare, Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships
Focus Area(s): Fatherhood Programs, Healthcare, Parenting Time & Co-Parenting
Keyword(s): paternity, pregnancy prevention
Ninos Sanos: Healthy Children – A Collaborative Project Between OAG (Child Support) and HHSC (Medicaid)
The Niños Sanos demonstration project, which translates to “Healthy Children,” began in September 2007 and continued through August 2011. The project was funded by a Section 1115 demonstration grant through the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE). Through a collaborative effort between the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG) Texas Child Support Division and the Texas Medicaid Read More
Issue(s): Child Support, Economic Security & Healthcare
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services, Healthcare, Program Innovations, Public Benefits Programs
Healthy Babies – Healthy Relationships – A Project to Promote Financial and Medical Security for Children
In the Healthy Babies—Healthy Relationships Project (HBHR), the Center for Policy Research (CPR) experimented with the delivery of information about paternity and child support to expectant and new parents in two settings that serve low-income and never-married parents: (1) CenteringPregnancy (Centering) Programs, which replace conventional, individual, prenatal care with a groupcentered model that integrates health assessment, education, and support into Read More
Issue(s): Child Support, Economic Security & Healthcare
Focus Area(s): Healthcare, Program Innovations, Public Benefits Programs