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 barriers to implementing them (e.g., county commissioners who will not allocate more staff to the child support agency without the information).