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Recommendations
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"The opportunity for NCPs [non-custodial parents] to discuss issues around being an NCP is a significant portion of the intervention and might lead to substantial changes in future behavior"(40).
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Parents' Fair Share Demonstration: Working with Low-Income Cases: Lessons for the Child Support Enforcement System from Parents' Fair Share (05/01/98)
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“In sum, the initial stages of the demonstration strongly suggest that a commitment to offering PFS-like services when appropriate appears to have a beneficial effect on many aspects of enforcement, It provides a means of smoking out unreported employment and resources and of identifying those NCPs against whom enforcement is inappropriate. It offers a service option in cases in which the problem is not enforcement but a lack of opportunity, skills, or job readiness. In addition, a PFS-style program can serve as an adjunct to the CSE system and the courts in cases in which information on their status is costly to obtain. PFS participation requirements and the program’s monitoring of compliance can out teeth into the mandate to seek employment and pay support”(6).
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Parents' Fair Share Demonstration: The Challenge of Helping Low-Income Fathers Support Their Children: Final Lessons From Parents' Fair Share (12/01/01)
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- How to increase employment and earnings:
- Structure the program to encourage longer-term participation and to include job-retention services.
- Provide the fathers who cannot find private sector employment with community service jobs or stipends, or combine part-time work with training.
- Use providers who have experience working with very disadvantaged clients.
- Earmark adequate funding for employment services.
- How to increase parental involvement:
- Increase fathers’ access to their children by involving custodial mothers in the programs and providing the fathers with legal services to gain visitation rights.
- Be aware of the potential for increased parental conflict.
- How to increase child support payments:
- Mandate fathers’ participation in employment-related activities to increase payments among low-income caseloads.
- Encourage active partnership of fatherhood programs with the child support system.
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