Helping Parents in the Child Support System Build Assets Webinar

Sep 13, 2011 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Description:
HELPING PARENTS IN THE CHILD SUPPORT SYSTEM BUILD ASSETS: CHILD SUPPORT AGENCIES CAN PARTNER WITH AFI AND ASSET BUILDING ORGANIZATIONS TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN

Join us in this session to hear from federal and state officials about the government’s interest in forming partnerships between Assets for Independence (AFI), asset building, fatherhood, and child support programs to help parents in the child support system build assets and ultimately, be able to better provide for their children. These partnerships are already occurring in various areas of the country. Speakers will discuss how helping parents who pay child support build financial strength is part of the new direction of the Office of Child Support Enforcement. State Child Support Enforcement leaders will describe ways that child support agencies can help parents – where appropriate – address child support debt and monthly payment amounts so that they are better able to meet child support obligations and save money.

SPEAKERS

Jennifer Burnszynski, Director, Division of Technical Assistance, U.S. Office of Child Support Enforcement, will discuss the new family supportive direction of the child support system, and how helping noncustodial parents build assets is part of this focus.

Michael Hayes, Director for Family Initiatives, Child Support Division, Texas Office of the Attorney General, will discuss why his agency is partnering with AFI organizations in Texas to help noncustodial parents build assets, and the roles that fatherhood organizations and child support are playing to help fathers connect to AFI services.

David Stillman, Interim Assistant Secretary for the Economic Services Administration, Washington State, will discuss why his state’s child support agency is partnering with AFI organizations to help noncustodial parents, and some of the remedies the state child support agency is offering parents to help reduce child support debt and reduce monthly payments – where appropriate—to help them become more financially stable.

Contact:
To register for this webinar, please sign up at: http://idaresources.org/Event?id=00U7000000Ek4jPEAR

Call-In Number: 1-888-390-4470; Passcode: AFI