Best Practices

Child support enforcement offices across the nation have developed numerous best practices. Review these—and adapt them to your own program.

• Child Education
  • Child Support, Child Care, and Head Start Collaboration
  • Kids in the Middle Educational Program
• Correctional
  
• Addressing Reintegration Issues for Fathers Leaving Prison
  
• Outreach to Incarcerated Parents
  
• Criminal Non-Support
  
  • Case Management in Criminal Non-Support Cases
    
• Fatherhood/Family
  
• Collaborations, Fatherhood, and Family Initiatives
  
• Collaborations with Minority Fatherhood Groups
  
• Family Counseling Service
  
• Father Child Connection for Young, Poor Fathers
  
• Fatherhood Collaborative
  
• Parental Employment Pilot Project
  
• WIC Paternity Establishment Pilot Program
  
• Obligations - Establishing/Collecting
  • Alert System to Activate Payment
    
  • Barriers Project
    
  • Debit Cards
    
  • License Suspension Project
    
  • Locating Noncustodial Parents Through Cell Phone Records
    
• Outreach
  • Advocate and Community-Based Partners Meetings
    
  • Bilingual Teen Outreach Activities
    
  • Collaborations with Professional Sports Teams
    
  • Community-Based Organizations/Grassroots Efforts – Yakima, Wash.
    
  • Community Outreach – Imperial County, Calif.
    
  • Community Outreach – Ventura, Calif.
    
  • Community Outreach – Tampa, Fla.
    
  • Faith-Based Organizations
    
  • High-Risk Families
    
  • Low-Income Noncustodial Parent Outreach Service
    
• Public Assistance
  • Child Support and TANF Coordination Meetings
  • Child Support/Public Assistance Collaboration