Dear Colleague DC-94-21

Fourth National Child Support Enforcement Training Workshop

DC-94-21

March 21, 1994

TO ALL STATE IV-D DIRECTORS

Dear Colleague:

In DC94-11 we alerted you to the Office of Child Support 
Enforcement's upcoming Fourth National Child Support Enforcement 
(CSE) Training Workshop.  This letter provides additional information 
about this important event.  Our Third National Training Workshop, 
held last September, featured separate tracks for trainers and 
attorneys.  The Fourth Workshop is a single track targeted 
specifically to CSE staff, including attorneys, whose main 
responsibilities are training related.

The intensive three-day Workshop will be held July 25-27 at the 
Ramada Inn Old Town, 901 North Fairfax Street, Alexandria, Virginia 
22314, telephone (703) 683-6000.

The proposed agenda (copy enclosed for your information) reflects 
input obtained in recent conference calls with State and Regional CSE 
training liaisons.  Emphasizing the needs and perspectives of 
trainers, small group sessions will explore issues related to:

     183    interstate case processing, including the new Uniform
          Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) and use of the 
          interstate forms package;

     183    enforcing against the self-employed;

     183    identifying assets and review and adjustment; and

     183    the paternity establishment and medical support provisions
          of OBRA '93.

A large group session will examine the integration of training in 
systems, policy, and procedures.

The Workshop also will feature a number of small group sessions on 
training tips and techniques, including:

     183    how to establish training units;

     183    effective use of training techniques; and

     183    presentation power, a discussion by Virginia Von Fremd of
          Professionally Speaking Associates covering tension and how 
          to relieve it, energy, pitch, pace, and creating an 
          awareness of strength.
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Please inform your training staff about this exciting opportunity as 
soon as possible, as registration is on a "first-come first-served" 
basis and space is limited!

Participants are responsible for their own travel and hotel expenses, 
as well as a registration fee of $95.00 per person.  Registration 
forms and hotel brochures are enclosed for you to review and pass on 
to appropriate staff.

If you have questions about registration, accommodations, or other 
logistical matters, please contact Phil Sharman of OCSE's National 
Training Center at (202) 401-4626.

                              Sincerely,




                              David Gray Ross
                              Deputy Director
                              Office of Child Support
                                Enforcement

Enclosures

cc:  Regional Administrators
     Assistant Regional Administrators
     Regional CSE Program Managers
     Regional Training Liaisons
     State Training Liaisons