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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
Child Support Program and Parenting Time Orders: Research, Practice, and Partnership Project – Site Visit Report
Parenting time is typically not addressed for parents in the child support system. At the same time, parents who were not married to each other at the time of their children’s birth do not have easy access to family court services, pro se resources and/or staff support available to divorcing parents arising out of their Read More
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services, Family-Centered Interventions, Program Innovations
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Rasa Kaunelis
Keyword(s): child support, parenting time
Policy Brief: Child Support, Parenting Time, and Safety Concerns
Child Support Program and Parenting Time Orders: Research, Practice, and Partnership Project OCSE has funded some demonstration and evaluation projects and grants in the area of parenting, and some states use funding available through the State Access and Visitation (AV) Program to support parenting time services for unmarried parents in the child support program. However, Read More
Issue(s): Child Support
Focus Area(s): Family-Centered Interventions, Program Innovations
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Rasa Kaunelis
Keyword(s): child support, parenting time
Child Support Program and Parenting Time Orders: Research, Practice, and Partnership Project – Roundtable on Domestic Violence
OCSE has funded some demonstration and evaluation projects and grants in the area of parenting, and some states use funding available through the State Access and Visitation (AV) Program to support parenting time services for unmarried parents in the child support program. However, only a handful of jurisdictions have mechanisms to incorporate parenting time agreements into initial child Read More
Issue(s): Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships, Gender-Based Violence
Focus Area(s): Domestic Violence Program Innovations, Intimate Partner Violence, Parenting Time & Co-Parenting
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Rasa Kaunelis
Massachusetts Parent Support Program: Final Report
The “Family Centered Services for Unwed Parents in the IV‐D Caseload” grant (90FD0141) was awarded to the Child Support Enforcement Division of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR) on September 30, 2009. The goal of the project, which was known locally as the Parent Support Program of Hampden County (PSP), was to develop, implement, and evaluate a program Read More
Issue(s): Child Support, Economic Security & Healthcare
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services, Family-Centered Interventions, Program Innovations, Workforce Innovations & Asset Building
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Nancy Thoennes, Rasa Kaunelis
Keyword(s): child support, co-parenting, unwed, workforce, workforce programs
Child Support Outcomes in Five Debt Compromise Programs
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 initiating and operating Read More
Issue(s): Child Support
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services, Program Innovations
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Nancy Thoennes, Rasa Kaunelis
Keyword(s): payment behavior
Identifying, Locating, Contacting, and Engaging Nonresident Fathers of Children in Foster Care
In the past, fathers have been largely absent from the research and writings on child welfare. In 1990, two researchers reviewed five major journals where studies and theoretical writings related to child abuse and neglect were commonly published. While fathers are still not as visible as mothers in the literature, they are no longer absent. While this was a significant gain, the authors of this study concluded that fathers Read More
Issue(s): Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships
Focus Area(s):
Author(s): Nancy Thoennes, Rasa Kaunelis
Keyword(s): fatherhood
New York City Child Permanency Mediation Program Evaluation
The evaluation of the New York City Child Permanency Mediation Program was intended to provide information to help to answer the question, “Does mediation work?” There is, of course, no single measure of whether mediation, or any program, “works.” Therefore, the evaluation considered a variety of possible outcomes to answer the questions: “Is mediation helpful to parties?” and “Is mediation helpful Read More
Issue(s): Child Welfare
Focus Area(s): Foster Care & At-Risk Youth, Program Innovations
Author(s): Nancy Thoennes, Rasa Kaunelis
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
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Lanae Davis, Rasa Kaunelis