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Child Support Resource Library
Welcome to the YoungWilliams Child Support Resource Library. Search by keywords or use the filters to select categories of interest to you. Currently, our Library consists of academic and government research articles and reports from around the country, federal opinions, and case law from states in which our full service child support projects are located.
Lasu v. Issak (Nebraska 2015)
Breen v. Black (Wyoming 2015)
Cain v. Jacox (Kansas 2015)
Cain v. Jacox (Kansas 2015)
Gladwell v. Gladwell (Tennessee 2015)
Healthy Babies — Healthy Relationships: A Project to Promote Financial and Medical Security for Children-Final Report
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) Centering Pregnancy (Centering) Programs, which replace conventional, individual, prenatal care with a group centered model that integrates health assessment, education, and support into a 10- to 12-session curriculum; and (2) nutrition classes associated with the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), which attempts to increase the well-being of children by offering low-income pregnant and new mothers monthly vouchers to purchase foods high in essential nutrients.
Niños Sanos: Healthy Children a Collaborative Project between OAG (Child Support) and HHSC (Medicaid) Final Report
The Niños Sanos demonstration project, which translates to “Healthy Children,” began in September 2007 and continued through August 2011. The project was funded by a Section 1115 demonstration grant through the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE). Through a collaborative effort between the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG) Texas Child Support Division and the Texas Medicaid agency within the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), the demonstration project aimed to increase the number of children in the child support caseload receiving healthcare coverage.
Colorado Compromise and Cooperation: Project Evaluation Final Report
The Colorado Compromise and Cooperation Project, which operated in Denver and Larimer counties, was designed to develop, implement, and test procedures to promote payment of current support and/or arrears among noncustodial parents (NCPs) who owe back-due child support, reduce child support arrears balances, and close cases, where appropriate. Each county targeted NCPs with arrears who had been formerly incarcerated or were disabled. Both of these groups are likely to be low income and to have accrued child support arrears during time periods they had a limited capacity to work, earn income, and meet their child support obligations. In experimental cases where the NCP was successfully contacted, child support technicians explained the purpose of the Compromise and Cooperation Project and attempted to negotiate an agreement regarding the payment of state-owed arrears.
Colorado Compromise and Cooperation: Project Evaluation Final Report
Roundtable on Domestic Violence: Child Support Program and Parenting Time Orders: Research, Practice & Partnership
This document contains the agenda, speaker biographies, and materials for a round-table discussion convened by the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement under Contract with the Center for Policy Research. The purpose of the roundtable was to identify methods and strategies for addressing domestic violence in child support cases where parenting time is being established.
Debt Compromise Programs: Program Designs and Child Support Outcomes in Five Locations
To generate empirical information on the populations served in actual debt compromise programs, the treatments they receive and the outcomes of their participation as measured by their debt levels and payment behaviors, CPR collected and analyzed information on 688 individuals enrolled in debt compromise programs in four states — California, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota — and in Washington, D.C. Programs in all five settings accept obligors with current support obligations as well as those who only have arrears-only cases. For arrears-only cases, programs have the capacity to accept lump-sum payments as well as to develop payment plans that involve making monthly arrears payments over a 6 to 36-month period of time. Through a coordinated, cross-site data collection effort, comparable information was obtained on samples of cases that enrolled in the programs.
Debt Compromise Programs: Program Designs and Child Support Outcomes in Five Locations
