Lived Experience Starter Kit

OCSE partnered with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and ICF (a strategic consulting and communications organization) to develop a starter kit that child support professionals can use to engage people with lived experience in the child support program. The starter kit is a resource that can help child support agencies, grant recipients, and other stakeholders:

• Identify and recruit individuals with lived experience
• Determine equitable compensation for people with lived experience
• Engage respectfully and effectively with people with lived experience

Engaging people with lived experience—whose voices often go unheard—can help child support and other human service practitioners inform and improve their programs.

For more information, contact Michael.Hayes@acf.hhs.gov.