October 24 - 26, 2005

15th NATIONAL CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CONFERENCE
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October 24, 2005, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Opening Ceremonies, Keynote Address: Wade F. Horn, Ph.D., Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, DHHS/ACF

October 24, 2005, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 Noon Plenary Session - Healthy Marriage Initiatives/Child Support Enforcement: What’s the Connection?

Child support officials from States with Child Support Healthy Marriage Initiatives will discuss the importance of marriage education for the low-income population. Speakers will also assess the interrelationship of the Healthy Marriage Initiative and the Child Support mission and describe how their projects are integrating child support information with healthy marriage education.

October 25, 2005, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Plenary Session - Medical Child Support - Where Are We Headed?

The child support community is concerned with the proper implementation of medical support. Shifts in health insurance coverage nationally, including Medicaid costs rising precipitously, diminishing insurance availability from employers, and increasing premium costs, cause us to rethink traditional implementation strategies. This panel will engage in an interactive discussion about the structural changes that affect how we work cases to ensure that children have appropriate private or public health insurance coverage.

October 26, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 Noon Plenary Session: Judicial/CSE Collaboration - Improving Services to Families

The importance of working with courts and the judiciary, even within wholly or mainly administrative jurisdictions is a critically important factor weighing on the success of child support programs. This plenary session features a panel drawn from members of the National Judicial/CSE Task force, which was convened to study ways of improving child support collections through better court/IV-D collaboration.

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