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Integrating Family Voice into 2Gen Program Design
The Generational Opportunities to Achieve Long-Term Success program (GOALS), takes a two-generation (2Gen) approach to improve the overall wellbeing of families experiencing homelessness by enhancing self-sufficiency through residentially-based whole family services (parent, child and family). GOALS serves families primarily from the City of Aurora, Colorado, and Arapahoe County, Colorado, who are eligible for or currently Read More
Issue(s): Economic Security & Healthcare
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services, Public Benefits Programs
Author(s): Anne Bryne, Lanae Davis, Savahanna Matyasic
Streamlining the Child Support Modification Process – Final Report
Responding to the Great Recession’s negative impact on the financial security of non‐custodial parents, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR) and the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court (the Court) set out to streamline the child support modification process. “Developing and Testing a Streamlined Modification Process for Newly Unemployed Obligors”, Grant #90FD0157, supported efforts to accomplish Read More
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services, Program Innovations
Debt Compromise Programs: Program Design and Child Support Outcomes – Final Report
This Office of Child Support Enforcement Special Improvement Project was undertaken to examine the features of effective debt compromise programs and to generate empirical information on the outcomes they produce. To identify best practices, the Center for Policy Research (CPR) convened a two-day conference in June 2009 with representatives of eight states that have experience Read More
Issue(s): Child Support
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Nancy Thoennes, Rasa Kaunelis
Debt Compromise Improving Child Support Outcomes – Conference Summary
On June 15-16, 2009, staff of the Center for Policy Research facilitated a meeting in Washington, D.C. to discuss concrete issues that states and local child support agencies must address in the design and implementation of debt compromise programs. The meeting involved representatives of debt compromise programs in the following state and local jurisdictions: California Read More
Issue(s): Child Support
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Nancy Thoennes, Rasa Kaunelis
Colorado Early Intervention and Simplified Modification Project – Final Report
Final report submitted to the Colorado Department of Human Service’s Division of Child Support Enforcement. Findings include strategies for early intervention and recommendations for simplifying modification procedures. Conducted in Denver and Pueblo, two large urban counties, Colorado’s Section 1115 demonstration grant aimed to improve child support payments and reduce arrears by utilizing early intervention strategies Read More
Oregon’s New Tool for Parents in The Child Support System: The Interactive Parenting Plan
Oregon’s Interactive Parenting Plan (IPP) is the first comprehensive, interactive tool created to generate customized parenting plans. It is the result of a joint effort of many stakeholders, including representatives of the court, the child support program, the private bar, mediators, community organizations serving families with safety issues, and experts in the field of child Read More
Issue(s): Child Support
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services, Family-Centered Interventions, Parenting Time & Co-Parenting, Program Innovations
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Nancy Thoennes
Keyword(s): co-parenting, parenting time
State Approaches to Including Fathers in Programs and Policies Dealing with Children and Families
This brief reviews some of the ways in which federal, state, and local initiatives in the U.S. have attempted to ensure that father involvement is reflected in programs and policies dealing with children and families. The examples provided are not comprehensive but cover much of the national activity that exists at the state level and illustrate the various ways in which Read More
Issue(s): Child Support, Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships
Focus Area(s): Fatherhood Programs
Author(s): Jessica Pearson
Keyword(s): child support, fatherhood programs, healthy marriage
Integrating A Two-Generation Approach to Child Support Services: Colorado’s Service Level Approach
In 2013, the Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Child Support Services (CSS) underwent a name change from Child Support Enforcement to Child Support Services. Along with this shift in name, a shift in perspective and priorities took place. Child Support Services began a transformation in agency culture towards a family-centered approach. As part Read More
Issue(s): Child Support
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services, Family-Centered Interventions, Program Innovations
Author(s): Lanae Davis, Nancy Thoennes
Keyword(s): 2gen, child support, program innovations, two-generation approach
An Evaluation of the Oregon Parenting Time Opportunities for Children Grant: 1.Mediation 2. Interactive Parenting Plans
In 2012, the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement made “Parenting Time Opportunities for Children” (PTOC) grant awards to five states. The grants were intended to: …improve the financial and emotional support of children in the child support system by increasing safe opportunities for them to build relationships with both parents. The parenting time grants Read More
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services, Family-Centered Interventions, Program Innovations
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Lanae Davis, Nancy Thoennes
Keyword(s): child support, co-parenting
A Call to Revisit Promising Practices for Staffing Configurations and Cost-Effective Staffing Levels in Child Support Offices
The bottom line on why the child support community needs to revisit this issue is this: child support administrators and managers need more information about which staffing levels and configurations are the most efficient and effective for achieving the best results. Not only do they need this information for implementation, but also to overcome the Read More