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Hennepin County Child Support Video Interviewing and Client Referral Services
This report was published in 2001 and covers a wide variety of topics relating to child support, including evaluating the efficacy of various interview formats to illicit information about non-custodial parents (NCPs) and screening custodial parents (CPs) for barriers to cooperation, as well as collecting client and worker feedback about these processes and information on Read More
Author(s): Esther Ann Griswold, Jessica Pearson
Child Support Policies and Domestic Violence: A Preliminary Look at Client Experiences with Good Cause Exemptions to Child Support Cooperation Requirements
Background: This 1997 report gathers preliminary data for the Colorado Model Office Project (Grant No. 90-FF-0027, funded by the Office of Child Support Enforcement) about client experiences with good cause via interviews and a review of applications. The goal of the Model Office Project was to demonstrate the effectiveness of various innovations in child support case Read More
Author(s): Esther Ann Griswold, Jessica Pearson
Child Support and Child Welfare: Enhancing Agency Collaboration and Case Processing
What child support agencies share in common with child welfare agencies is children. Not simply children in the abstract, but often the very same children from the very same families — very often, poor families. When child support and child welfare operate entirely independently, the end result can be poorer outcomes for families. Vital information known to one agency may be missing at another. Absent parents who might be a resource for a child may not be located. Parents with children in foster care may receive child support in error and face the prospect of making repayments. Or, child support may never be established even though it would help the family to reunify and be self-sufficient.
Rural Collaborative Basic Center Program 2021 Report
The Colorado Rural Collaborative for Homeless Youth was established in 2008 to collectively address the unique needs of rural runaway and homeless youth and the challenges geography poses for them to receive support and services. Namely, this means connecting Colorado’s network of Runaway/Homeless Youth and Child Welfare providers in order to serve youth in rural Read More
Focus Area(s): Foster Care & At-Risk Youth, Program Innovations
Author(s): Lanae Davis, Savahanna Matyasic
The Relationship Between Child Support and Parenting Time
When child support guidelines were initially drafted, it was assumed that in most instances, the lesser-time parent would be the father, the father would see the children infrequently, and the father would have a higher income than the mother. Today, more custodial parents are male than before, the wage gap between mothers and fathers has Read More
Issue(s): Child Support
Author(s): J. Thomas Oldham, Jane Venohr
Keyword(s): child support, Family Law Quarterly, parenting time
Parenting Time and Child Support: Information for Fatherhood Programs and Fathers
Many fathers who participate in fatherhood programs do not live with all of their children. They often seek help from fatherhood programs to navigate the child support system, determine how they can spend more time with their children, or improve their coparenting relationships. Unfortunately, it can be quite complicated for programs to provide this assistance, Read More
Author(s): Anne Bryne, Jessica Pearson
Keyword(s): child support, fatherhood, parenting time
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