Modern Management And

Measurement Techniques

The Immediate Objectives

Encourage the use of empirical data to guide management and assessment operations.

Indentify valuable intermediaries and prospective partners important to management processes.

Demonstrate synergy between interoperability and service integration approaches.

Why are modernmanagement and measurement techniques

necessary?

First, it’s the mission of the child support program to help all children obtain financial, emotional and health support.

The program was established on the value that parents should support their children.

The wide spread need is pretty evident.

A Study (Dated May, 2010) Mark Mather, Population Reference Bureau (PRB)

Entitled

U.S. Children in Single-Mother Households

“PRB informs people about population, health and the environment, and encourages the public to use their information to advance the well-being of current and future generations.”

This PRB data speaks to our child support authority as we know it today.

Single Mother Households Defined

Single Mother families were defined as families headed by a female with no spouse present, and living with one or more own never married children under the age of 18.

In 2009, there were 18.1 million children in the United States living in single mother families. Single mother families are a subset of female headed families, which include mother child families as well as children in the care of grandparents and other relatives. In 2009, there were 19.6 million children in the U.S. residing in female headed families.

Key Highlights

24% of the 75 million children under age 18 lives in a single mother family.

Single mothers vary widely across racial and ethnic groups.

In 2009, more than 53% of all single mothers were previously married. Two thirds (or 66 % for whites), nearly half (or 48% for Latino), and a third (or 34% African American).

There has been a steady increase in single mothers who have never been married, and a decrease in single motherhood resulting from separation and divorce.

Significant Observations about the DataThe study speaks to key statistical facts based on 2009

data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS).

It was conducted to address misconceptions about single mother families based on outdated or anecdotal information.

It is national in scope, and speaks to the status and conditions of single mother families on a scale that dwarfs the status and conditions of single mother families by states.

Census Bureau surveys are household based, and they often exclude important contextual information about the residents that live in households and communities.

What is the value of using empirical data in Child Support?

Empirical data provide leads; demographic pathways.

Help us define parameters or data frameworks.

Help us to better understand how single mothers with children measure up and perform in local communities, counties, and states.

Help us identify, distribute and manage scarce resources.

Help us to sustain, transform and make changes where needed.

The US Census Bureau’sGraphic Image of Available Data Sets

www.census.gov/hhes/www/chldsupt.html. OCSE: www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cse/rpt/99report/index.html.

QUESTIONSHow can child support, that is state and/or county IV-D agencies, expand their reach in order to serve eligible children?

What can we do to pinpoint neighborhoods and local communities where children in single mother households live?

What measurements are useful in assessing state and local contacts, and manage child support cases around the bubble chart?

Macro

Intersection

MicroResident & Nonresident Parents with Children; e.g. males who become fathers; females who become mothers.

Regional, State, County and Local Municipalities

CBOs, FBOs, Community Colleges, HBCUs and other university entities, public and private groups or associations; including foundations.

Available Data Sets Service Providers and Caretakers

Types of Aggregate Assessments

Urban, Rural, and Tribal Jurisdictions; including designated Communities, Neighborhoods, American and Alaska Native Areas, and Hawaiian home lands.

Quick Facts American FactFinder, , Current Population Survey,

American Community Survey, Dataferrett, www.zipskinny.com

Opportunities for Engagement

Home Visiting Programs.Hospitals & Birthing Centers.Childcare Early Head Start. Fatherhood and Healthy family agencies.Community Action Agencies.Agricultural extension programs; State Fairs/Community Carnivals.College and University students/campuses.There are other state and local variations.

What makes home or community visiting attractive?

Contact in a participant’s home, or community reduces barriers to engagement.

It allows one to target and help shape the intervention (s) needed for individual cases.

It contributes to and facilitates contact with other family members and care providers.

Home and community visiting models “relationship building.”

Types of Measurements

Types of Ratio Products

o Ratio of total births to single mother births by census tracts or zip code areas.

o Ratio of total paternity established to paternity established by census tracts or zip code areas.

o Ratio of obligation agreements established to single mother births by census tracts or zip code areas.

o Ratio of Child support payments being paid to partial, or unpaid obligations census tracts or zip code areas.