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"Increasing child support collections is vital for the millions of children in need, and these fresh approaches from the states hold great promise for improving the lives of our children," Secretary Thompson said. "Ultimately, these projects will help us turn the best ideas of our governors and state officials into real-life answers for children and families across America."

The projects will examine a number of broad areas. For example:

• Texas will provide training to young, low-income fathers to enhance their ability to pay child support and improve their parenting skills.
• Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming will use technology to improve overall management of their child support programs through improved use of data.
• Illinois will provide services to formerly incarcerated fathers to assist them to become more financially and emotionally connected to their children.
• Missouri will work with incarcerated fathers to improve their financial and emotional support of their children.
• South Carolina will collaborate with local community and faith-based groups to provide early intervention services to fathers to improve their payment of child support and their connections to their children.
• Minnesota and New Mexico will better serve a previously underserved population, the non-English speaking such as those fluent in Spanish or Hmong.
• New Jersey and Virginia will both work with community-based service providers to increase child support program outcomes for children.

"These grants serve the highest goal--to better the lives of children. By funding new approaches and enlisting the talents of community and faith-based organizations, we will strengthen the child support program," said Dr. Wade F. Horn, Ph.D., assistant secretary for children and families. "Projects such as those funded today will provide new knowledge regarding the vital importance of an effective child support program."

In addition to the support offered by these grants, President Bush has also proposed a new $64 million program designed to help fathers financially support their children and provide the emotional and psychological support their children need.

The demonstrations require an evaluation. The grants will cover a substantial portion of the special projects' costs with the remaining costs coming from other federal child support enforcement funds. Each grantee also will contribute at least 5 percent of the total cost of the project.

A listing of grant recipients follows:

Illinois Department of Public Aid
A Collaborative Effort with the Department of Corrections and Community Based Agencies to Promote Family Self-Sufficiency
$193,268

Minnesota Department of Human Services
Examining the Role of Language-Specific Child Support Workers in Improving Performance and Customer Satisfaction
$62,500

Missouri Department of Social Services
Incarcerated Fathers Collaboration Project
$192,607

New Jersey Department of Human Services
A Collaborative Effort to Promote Healthy Families
$127,600

New Mexico Department of Human Services
Comprehensive Outreach Supporting Paternity and Support Order Entry
$217,667

South Carolina Department of Social Services
Early Intervention to Enhance Fatherhood Initiative
$106,801

Texas Office of the Attorney General
The Bootstrap Project- Mediation, Partial Child Support Reimbursement, and Jobs Program
$105,245

Vermont Agency of Human Service
Data Warehousing and Data Mining
$199,941

Virginia Department of Social Services
From Case Number to Client: Reducing Barriers to the Collection of Child Support Through Interagency Collaboration and Case Management
$100,000

Washington Department of Social and Health Services
Building a Longitudinal and Predictive Child Support Knowledge Management System: A Data Warehousing and Data Mining Project to Build the Capacity of Washington State
$200,000

Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
Wisconsin's Child Support Data Mart
$166,619

Wyoming Department of Family Services
Using Data Warehousing to Improve Children's Medical Coverage and Management Effectiveness in Wyoming's IV-D Program
$124,993

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