Children do best when both parents contribute financially and emotionally to their development. As child support professionals, we see the positive impact this support can have on families. To help child support programs with this work, OCSS awarded $4.7 million to help six states and two tribes develop and refine child support-led employment efforts for noncustodial parents under the Next Generation Child Support Employment (NextGen) grant. NextGen builds on the lessons learned from a previous OCSS demonstration called CSPED. These child support-led employment services increase the reliable payment of child support and improve the financial well-being of children.
OCSS also awarded $3.4 million to Michigan to provide technical assistance and evaluate the NextGen demonstration projects. The project period for all grants is five years.
Recipients of the demonstration grants and the technical assistance and evaluation grant are:
- Los Angeles County (California Department of Child Support Services)
- Sacramento and Stanislaus Counties (California Department of Child Support Services)
- Cherokee Nation
- Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
- Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services
- Minnesota Department of Human Services
- Virginia Department of Social Services
- Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
- Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (Technical Assistance and Evaluation Grant)
This demonstration will strengthen our program’s efforts to help parents become employed and provide financial and medical support for their children. To learn more about this and other demonstrations, visit the OCSS Grants webpage.
Tanguler Gray, Commissioner
This blog gives the commissioner a forum to communicate directly with child support professionals and other partners about relevant topics. The Commissioner’s Voice is reprinted from the September 2024 Child Support Report newsletter.