Enhancing Agency Collaboration and Case Processing

The child support and child welfare project was undertaken to improve collaboration between sister agencies in multiple jurisdictions. The Center for Policy Research of Denver, Colo., with grant funding from the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement, conducted two meetings in Washington, D.C., in 2006 and 2007 to bring together top-level managers and other key representatives of child welfare and child support agencies in targeted jurisdictions to discuss shared concerns and engage in the development of plans to improve the handling of joint cases and to promote collaboration. Four jurisdictions, Minnesota, California, Wisconsin and New Jersey, convened in 2006; Oregon, Tennessee, Massachusetts and Oklahoma convened in 2007.