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The Office of Child Support EnforcementGiving Hope and Support to America's Children

MD - Baltimore City
Office of Child Support

Presented by Beverly Perry, Establishment Sr. Team Leader & Francine Douglas - Pratt, Sr. Site Manager

The Road to Increased Support Order Establishment - Overview

  • Training
  • Imaging
  • Partnerships
  • Morale
  • Software
  • Focus-Based Teams
  • Timeframes
  • Targeted Case Efforts
  • Other Initiatives
  • Next Steps

The Road to Increased Support Order Establishment - Training

  • Back to Basics (annually)
  • Ongoing Refresher Training
  • Standard Operating Procedures with Process Maps (audit process)
  • Quality Assurance

The Road to Increased Support Order Establishment - Imaging

  • On-line File Access
  • Case Clean-Up of Dead Files

The Road to Increased Support Order Establishment - Partnerships

  • IV-A
  • State's Attorney's Office
  • Court Clerk's Office
  • MD - Executive Leadership Team & Unit Reps
  • Team Members
  • Customers
  • Mediators

The Road to Increased Support Order Establishment - Morale

  • Reduce turnover - seasoned team members
  • Team member empowerment
  • Team member input before major decision are made
  • One Team Concept - We are all in this together!
  • Bob's Bucks
  • Treasure Chest
  • I Stuck My Neck Out and I am Still Here Award
  • Top Performer Recognition
  • Monthly Morale Activity

The Road to Increased Support Order Establishment - Software/Technology

  • PSILink
  • Accurint
  • Adhoc Reports - School of Social Work

The Road to Increased Support Order Establishment - Focus-Based Teams

Case Assignments

  • Intake
  • Child Support First
  • Interstate Responding
  • Compliance
  • Genetic Testing
  • Incarcerated NCP
  • Accurint
  • PSILink

The Road to Increased Support Order Establishment - Timeframes

  • First quarter FFY - set-up for remainder of FFY
  • Case Closure Projects
  • DRA Review

The Road to Increased Support Order Establishment - Targeted Case Efforts

  • Mass Mailings
  • Evaluate Fostercare Cases
  • Reconcile Duplicate Cases
  • Reconcile Children Participating on Multiple Cases

The Road to Increased Support Order Establishment - Other Initiatives

  • Specific goals for number of scheduled hearings daily
  • Reminder calls to customers
  • Greeters
  • Incarcerated NCPs
  • Administrative Subpoenas

The Road to Increased Support Order Establishment - Next Steps

  • Co-Locate Consent Hearings
  • Conference Call Hearings
  • Co-Locate Program Specialist at other jurisdictions

The Road to Increased Support Order Establishment - Questions????

Questions or Clarifications!?!?!

The Road to Increased Support Order Establishment - Thank You!

Thank you!