Child Support Learning Agenda: A Brief Synthesis of Select Child Support Literature

The purpose of this brief is to summarize the findings from select child support literature identified by OPRE and OCSS and highlight remaining knowledge gaps.

Using Interactive Workshops to Inform Development of a Child Support Learning Agenda

This brief describes the process used to gather input for a future child support learning agenda and summarizes the key themes in questions identified during workshops with federal staff and external experts.

Strengthening Partnerships Between Fatherhood and Human Services Programs to Improve Father Engagement

This practice guide highlights key strategies for developing community partnerships between father-focused and other human services programs. The goal of this guide is to help programs develop strategic partnerships that are mutually beneficial and can increase father engagement in their communities.

Approaches for Engaging Fathers in Child Support Programs (Fact Sheet)

This fact sheet explores three key strategies for child support agencies to engage fathers and improve family stability.

Engaging Fathers During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond (Program Snapshot)

This program snapshot explores how a local fatherhood program engaged fathers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Centering Fathers in Human Services Programming to Increase Participation

This practice brief is a resource for human services programs striving to engage fathers. The purpose is to help programs engage fathers in services to build upon their intrinsic motivation to support their families and ensure fathers have access to programs and opportunities that can equip them with...

Father Engagement in Human Services

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services encourages human services agencies to recognize fathers’ contributions to and desire to be involved in their children’s lives. This brief identifies approaches that human services programs can and do take to engage fathers in programming.

Youth At-Risk of Homelessness: Design for an Implementation Study of "Pathways to Success"

The Pathways implementation study will address two broad objectives.

Case Study of Father Engagement in Healthy Start Programs: Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition Fatherhood PRIDE

This case study highlights how a Healthy Start Coalition developed a fatherhood program—Fatherhood PRIDE— to recruit, enroll, and retain fathers in services that complement the objectives of the Healthy Start Coalition.

Case Study of Father Engagement in Family Nutrition and Health Programs: California WIC Association

This case study focuses on the California WIC Association (CWA), a non-profit state WIC association, and its work to support local WIC agencies to involve fathers in WIC programming.

Case Study of Father Engagement in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Programs: ForeverDads

This case study highlights the partnership development and program modifications ForeverDads made to engage fathers participating in substance use treatment programming, with the goal of improving economic mobility and other outcomes for these fathers, their families, and their children.

How Low-Income Fathers in Responsible Fatherhood Programs Perceive and Provide Financial Support for Their Children: Summary Brief

This brief describes how low-income fathers participating in Responsible Fatherhood (RF) programs perceive and provide financial support for their children.

Challenges and Successes of Pregnancy Assistance Fund Programs Supporting Young Fathers

Since 2010, the Office of Population Affairs (formerly the Office of Adolescent Health) has offered funding to support expectant and parenting youth through the Pregnancy Assistance Fund (PAF).

Parents and Children Together: How Low-Income Fathers in Responsible Fatherhood Programs Perceive and Provide Financial Support for Their Children

This report investigates how low-income fathers participating in responsible fatherhood programs perceive and provide support for their children.

Coordinating Parenting Time and Child Support: Experiences and Lessons Learned from Three States (Issue Brief)

This issue brief reports on how three states coordinate the establishment and enforcement of parenting time with child support establishment activities.

An Examination of the Use and Effectiveness of Child Support Enforcement Tools in Six States

Child support programs use enforcement tools to collect monetary support for custodial families from noncustodial parents. This study describes how six states use enforcement tools to collect child support from noncustodial parents.

Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): New York State PROMISE Process Analysis Report

This report presents findings on the implementation and operation of the New York State PROMISE program, which was designed to (1) provide educational, vocational, and other services to SSI youth and their families and (2) improve service coordination among state and local agencies serving that population.

Child Support Cooperation Requirements in Child Care Subsidy Programs and SNAP: Key Policy Considerations

This brief presents findings of a formative examination of the use of child support cooperation requirements among states that have executed the option to impose a child support cooperation requirement in their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or child care subsidy program.

Child Support Cooperation Requirements in Child Care Subsidy Programs and SNAP: Key Policy Considerations (Infographic)

This infographic summarizes findings from a formative examination of the use of child support cooperation requirements among child care subsidy programs and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program (SNAP).

Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): Wisconsin PROMISE Process Analysis Report

This report presents findings on the implementation and operation of the Wisconsin PROMISE program, which was designed to (1) provide educational, vocational, and other services to SSI youth and their families and (2) improve service coordination among state and local agencies serving that population.

Analysis of Data on Youth with Child Welfare Involvement at Risk of Homelessness (Issue Brief)

This brief discusses the data strategy associated with the The Framework to End Youth Homelessness: A Resource Text for Dialogue and Action (USICH, 2013) (hereafter referred to as the “Framework”) and how the strategy was implemented by YARH Phase I grantees.

Helping Noncustodial Parents Support Their Children: Early Implementation Findings from the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED) Evaluation

In the past several decades, changes in family structure have led to a substantial increase in single-parent households in the United States.

PROMISE Recruitment, Enrollment, and Random Assignment Procedures Manual

This research procedures manual, produced by the Mathematica team, describes the procedures that will be used by the staff of the demonstration programs to implement the evaluation in their local areas.