This is the complete Fifth Edition of the Compendium of State Best Practices and Good Ideas in Child Support Enforcement. It includes papers conveyed through IM-00-07 and IM-00-13.

We hope you will find the practices profiled in the Compendium useful to you in addressing ways to improve program performance regardless of the scope of the program area addressed. The practices profiled give results and the source of funding. Replication advice is offered by a key person involved in the practice. Should you wish to have further discussions about the practice, the profile provides a contact for additional information. We are pleased to give these "good ideas" visibility. We do not endorse any particular practice. There are many ways to improve performance and no one way will necessarily serve everyone equally well.

We would appreciate your continued help as we work on the next edition of Best Practices and Good Ideas. Please let us know about program, organizational and training practices that have produced results. Any nomination from a State IV-D director will be considered. These may be ideas that are statewide or in a local agency. They may have had big financial effects or made small and recognizable improvements in the quality of work life in an office. Updates will be made available on a regular basis.

Readers are encouraged to visit the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) Home Page. It is our most up-to-date and complete source of published Federal materials on child support enforcement. NECSRS, our National Electronic Child Support Enforcement Resource System, also includes state-submitted materials on program practices. You can find NECSRS through the OCSE Web Site /programs/cse/.

Let us know about practices that address a common need and have shown results. Contact your ACF Regional Office CSE Program Specialist or

The previous edition of Best Practices may be found here /programs/cse/pubs/1998/best_practices/.