Partners for Fragile Families Demonstration Projects:
Employment and Child Support Outcomes and Trends

Prepared for:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Office of Human Services Policy
Contract Number 100-01-0027

By:
Karin Martinson, Demetra Smith Nightingale, Pamela A. Holcomb, Burt S. Barnow, and John Trutko
The Urban Institute

September 2007

This report is available on the Internet at:
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/07/PFF/outcomes/

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This report was prepared at the Urban Institute for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. This report was produced under the direction of Jennifer Burnszynski and Linda Mellgren, Project Officers, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of Human Services Policy, Melissa Pardue, Deputy Assistant Secretary.

The Urban Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan policy research and educational organization. Karin Martinson and Pamela Holcomb are senior research associates with the Urban Institute. Demetra Smith Nightingale and Burt S. Barnow are principal research scientists at the Institute for Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University. John Trutko is president of Capital Research Corporation. The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Urban Institute, its trustees, or its funders.

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Acknowledgments

Many individuals assisted in conducting the study and producing this report. The authors gratefully acknowledge the oversight and guidance provided by our project officer, Jennifer Burnszynski and to David Arnaudo of the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) at DHHS for his ongoing commitment to the study. We are also highly indebted to Linda Mellgren of ASPE who provided valuable comments on earlier drafts of this report. The report benefited greatly from the editing skills of Fiona Blackshaw. Finally, the authors are especially grateful to PFF and state child support agency staff who assisted us in obtaining the data for this report. We sincerely thank them for their time and cooperation.


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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Last Updated:  09/14/2007