Knowledge Works! Webinars

Publication Date: January 19, 2023
Current as of:

Enhanced Child Support Services for Noncustodial Parents Seeking Employment (Recording)
September 2022

During this webinar we heard child support leaders discuss how they've enhanced services to help noncustodial parents with barriers to employment and paying child support. Leaders highlighted successful enhancements such as customized use of enforcement remedies and incorporating peer support groups or joint case management meetings.

You will learn:

  • How programs are expediting review and adjustment of child support orders
  • Examples of incentives being offered, such as debt compromise or driver's license reinstatement
  • What enforcement remedies are being suspended or suppressed
  • Benefits of enhanced services
  • Key lessons learned from implementing enhanced child support services

 

Sharing Information on Noncustodial Parent Employment Services and Leveraging Automation  (Recording)
April 2022

During this webinar we heard child support leaders discuss their experiences sharing information among noncustodial parent employment program partners. They highlighted successful strategies to leverage automation to ensure partners are aware of referrals, receive feedback on the parent’s progress, and ensure child support programs have the information to issue income withholding orders upon successful job placement.                                                        

You will learn:

  • What information is shared by which partners
  • When information sharing is integral to the success of each partner's efforts
  • How the information is being shared between automated systems
  • Related costs
  • Examples of alternative solutions used to share information before implementing automation
  • Key lessons learned from data sharing

 

Partnering with Workforce Programs to Provide Noncustodial Parents with Employment Services (Recording)
September 2021

During this webinar we heard from state human services, child support, and workforce leaders.  The webinar highlighted successful partnerships between child support and various types of workforce providers to operate an employment program for noncustodial parents.

You will learn:

  • Who is providing employment services to noncustodial parents
  • How to uniquely leverage providers in different communities or to serve distinct segments of your target population
  • What employment services are being provided that maximize each partners’ role
  • Key aspects of MOUs that drive outcomes and cost effectiveness
  • Key lessons learned from partnering with workforce programs

 

Partnering with Courts to Enroll Noncustodial Parents into Employment Services Programs (Recording)
August 19, 2020

During this webinar we heard from judges and child support leaders about their experience partnering to recruit and enroll noncustodial parents into employment programs. The webinar highlighted successful strategies for working with courts to secure their participation and maximize their role in a child support-led employment program for noncustodial parents.

You will learn:

  • Reasons judges value having the ability to order participation into noncustodial parent employment programs
  • Staffing models to support collaboration with courts
  • Strategies for sharing information between child support, employment program partners, and the courts
  • Methods for successfully using review hearings and judicial sanctions to promote and improve program participation
     

Reinvesting Child Support Incentive Payments and Section 1115 Waivers for Employment Services for Noncustodial Parents  (Recording)
March 2, 2020

This webinar focused on helping state child support directors, leaders in human services, and decision makers gain insight into the use of exemptions and waivers to design and implement noncustodial parent employment programs.

You will learn:

  • Requirements of the exemption request and waiver application process
  • Key elements to consider about each funding model
  • Overviews of employment program models and the services provided
  • Results, challenges, successes, and key lessons learned

 

Partnering with TANF for Employment Services for Noncustodial Parents  (Recording)
November 19, 2019

This webinar focused on helping state human services leaders, child support directors, and other leaders and decision-makers design, implement, or further develop employment program partnerships to increase NCP employment, child support compliance, and economic mobility.

You will learn:

  • Successful approaches to partnering with TANF
  • Specific funding models
  • Employment program operational overviews
  • Key lessons learned