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Webinar: How to Prevent Child Support Cuts
Tuesday, June 26, 2:00 PM EDT
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The child support enforcement program is cost-effective, serves 17 million children and provided $24 billion in vital support to low-income families in FFY 2006. And yet, a cut in enforcement funds approved by Congress last year threatens to deprive children of $11 billion owed to them over 10 years. Federal cuts are threatening to undermine the program's success. This doesn't make sense. And it doesn't have to happen!
An unprecedented collaboration of advocates and child support experts and practitioners at all levels of government is forming to prevent it. The funding cut does not start to take effect until October and can be prevented if Congress acts. Advocates, child support experts, and state/county officials feel so strongly about this that they have joined to co-sponsor this impressive panel.
Presenters
Barbara Pryor, Legislative Assistant to Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), lead sponsor of the Child Support Protection Act of 2007, S. 803. Barbara has worked for Senator Rockefeller since 1985, handling children's policy issues since 1991.
Alisha Griffin, President of the National Council of Child Support Directors, Past President of the National Child Support Enforcement Association, and Assistant Director, Department of Human Services, Office of Child Support Services, New Jersey. Alisha is a national leader and expert in child support enforcement.
Barry Bloomgren, Area Manager, Child Support Services, Hennepin County, Minnesota's most populous urban jurisdiction. Barry has worked in child support enforcement since before the federal-state program was created in 1975, and has served on the federal performance measures and child support incentives workgroup.
Moderator
Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security, National Women's Law Center, Washington, DC. Joan has been an advocate for child support reform for more than a decade at NWLC and previously at the National Partnership for Women & Families.
Sponsors
- American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
- The Association of Child Support Attorneys of Los Angeles County
- Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
- Child Support Directors Association of California
- Coalition on Human Needs
- First Focus
- Michigan Family Support Council
- Michigan Friend of the Court Association
- National Association of Counties (NACo)
- National Association of County Human Services Administrators
- National Child Support Enforcement Association (NCSEA)
- National Council of Child Support Directors
- National Women's Law Center
- Ohio Child Support Enforcement Directors Association
- Western Interstate Child Support Enforcement Council (WICSEC)
- The Domestic Relations Association of Pennsylvania
- Eastern Regional Interstate Child Support Association (ERICSA)
- Wisconsin Child Support Enforcement Association (WCSEA)
