| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
Indiana Awarded $990,000 for Child Support Enforcement Improvements
Funds to help children through healthy marriage and parental relationship support
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Children and Families today announced federal funding of $990,000 for an Indiana initiative promoting improvements in child support enforcement efforts in that state.
The goals of the project include improving program activities necessary to determine and strengthen relationships between children and their fathers, increasing financial support for children, and encouraging relationships among children’s fathers and mothers. The project also seeks to reduce the potential for domestic abuse.
“Improvements to Indiana’s child support enforcement efforts will strengthen the well-being of Hoosier children, promote paternity establishment and help parents provide increased financial and emotional support for their children,” said HHS’ Acting Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Daniel Schneider.
With this latest announcement, the Bush administration has unveiled fifteen child support enforcement projects aimed at developing and testing new strategies in communities across the nation to support healthy marriages and parental relationships.
The ACF will also conduct a comprehensive evaluation to assess how the project was implemented and its effect on families, children and the child support program.For more information on ACF programs, please visit: www.acf.hhs.gov
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