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ACYF
Administration on Children,
Youth and Families
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U.S. DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families |
| 1. Log No. ACYF-IM-HS-96-21 |
2. Issuance Date: 08/28/96 |
| 3. Originating Office: Head Start Bureau |
| 4. Key Word: Child Support Services |
INFORMATION MEMORANDUM [See Attachments at the bottom]
TO: All Head Start Grantees and Delegate Agencies
SUBJECT: Promotion of Child Support Services in local Head Start programs nationwide
INFORMATION: The Head Start Bureau (HSB) and the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) continue to collaborate on ways to better support Head Start single-parent families. The attached jointly-signed letter is the latest action to underscore the importance of the OCSE and the HSB initiative.
The three steps asked of local programs are 1) inform every family in their Head Start program about child support services; 2) have a procedure for referring potentially eligible parents to the local Child Support office; and 3) establish referral arrangements with the local Child Support office.
Thank you for your on-going work to support Head Start families.
/S/
Helen H. Taylor
Associate Commissioner
Head Start Bureau
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20447
Dear Colleague:
The Head Start Bureau and the Office of Child Support Enforcement are engaging in an initiative to promote child support services for single-parent families in Head Start. We are sending you this jointly signed letter to tell you about the initiative and to enlist your active support in it.
As you know, Head Start offers children and their families a number of services, including education, health, nutrition and social services. Among the social services many Head Start families rely on are child support services. One-parent families across our nation depend on these critical services for their daily needs. This is why we are collaborating --here and in the Regional Offices-- to promote child support services for those Head Start parents who are not already involved in the child support enforcement system.
Why are these services so critical for them? Because child support services can provide a single-parent with much needed financial and medical support from the non-custodial parent. Child support services, therefore, provide single parents with critical additional resources to meet their children's growing material needs. In addition, child support services frequently result in a child enjoying emotional support and love from both its mother and father.
We know that, as Head Start Program Directors, you understand better than most Americans just how much single, low-income women must struggle, day in and day out, trying to make ends meet in providing food, clothing, medicine, etc., etc. for their growing children. We know, too, that you are passionately committed to children, particularly to low-income children who often have "two strikes against them" in life due to lack of services. This is why we now ask you to join us in this initiative to promote child support services for Head Start single-parent families.
Specifically, this initiative invites you to take three steps to assure that your Head Start program promotes child support services for every single-parent family in it. We know that many Head Start programs, coordinating with Child Support offices, are already carrying out one or more of these activities and we commend them. We are now asking every Head Start program to carry out the three steps on behalf of their enrolled children and families.
First, provide information on child support services to every family enrolled in your program. This way all Head Start parents will know what these services are and whether they themselves should be seeking them. They also can share this helpful information with potentially eligible friends and neighbors, thereby contributing to the good of their communities.
Second, make certain your Head Start program has a procedure for referring potentially eligible Head Start parents to your local child support office. This way your program would not only provide all parents with information but also take the lead to refer every potentially eligible parent to the local child support office for services.
Linked to this is the third step: get in touch with your local child support office to make referral arrangements with the staff. By entering into a collaborative relationship with the local child support office on behalf of your single-parent families, you will be acting in their highest interest.
To assist you in these three steps, we are enclosing a copy of the Handbook on Child Support Enforcement and a list of the State Child Support Enforcement agencies (also called IV-D agencies) with their addresses and telephones. The State agency can provide you with informational material to distribute to your families and identify the local child support office you need to contact to make referral arrangements with it. Your local child support office also will gladly accept invitations to speak to your staff and parents about child support services.
As we jointly invite your participation in this initiative to promote child support services for Head Start families, we assure you of our joint commitment to assist you in carrying out the three steps. Federal regional Head Start and Child Support staffs share this commitment and will be collaborating on the initiative in the Regional Offices. We expect they will be following up this letter in appropriate ways to assist you.
In closing, we thank you on behalf of the many Head Start single parents and their children who will be strengthened by the child support services they receive through your participation in this initiative!
Sincerely,
/S/
David Gray Ross
Deputy Director
Office of Child Support
Enforcement
/S/
Helen H. Taylor
Associate Commissioner
Head Start Bureau
State Child Support Enforcement Agencies
Enclosures
State Child Support Enforcement Agencies
(Note: Head Start Program Directors should contact their State level Child Support Enforcement Agency, as listed below, and request the name, address and telephone number of the local Child Support office which is located within their Head Start program area.)
ALABAMA
Phillip Browning, Director
Division of Child Support
50 Ripley Street
Montgomery, AL 36130-1801
Phone (334) 242-9300
ALASKA
Glenda Straube, Director
Child Support Enforcement Division
550 West 7th Avenue, Suite 312
Anchorage, AK 99501-6699
Phone (907) 269-6804
AMERICAN SAMOA
Fainuulelei L. Ala'ilima-Uta
Assistant Attorney General
P.O.Box 7
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799
Phone (684) 633-7161 or 633-4163
ARIZONA
Nancy Mendoza, IV-D Director
Division of Child Support Enforcement
P.O. Box 40458, Site Code 021A
Phoenix, AZ 85067
Phone (602) 274-7646
ARKANSAS
Ed Baskin, Interim Administrator
Office of Child Support Enforcement
P.O.Box 8133
Little Rock, AR 72203
Phone (501) 682-6169
CALIFORNIA
Leslie Frye, Chief
Office of Child Support
744 P Street, Mail Stop 17-29
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone (916) 654-1556
Colorado
Pauline Burton, Director
Division of Child Support Enforcement
1575 Sherman Street, 2nd floor
Denver, CO 80203-1714
Phone (303) 866-5992
CONNECTICUT
Anthony DiNallo, Director
Bureau of Child Support Enforcement
25 Sigourney Street
Hartford, CT 06105-5033
Phone (203) 424-5251
DELAWARE
Barbara A. Paulin, Director
Division of Child Support Enforcement
Herman Hallaway Campus
P.O. Box 904
New Castle, DE 19720
Phone (302) 577-4807
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Kenneth Hill, Acting Director
Bureau of Paternity and Child Support Enforcement
800 9th St, S.W. 2nd floor
Washington, DC 20024-2480
Phone (202) 645-5330
FLORIDA
Barry A. Gladden, Director
Child Support Enforcement Program
P.O. Box 8030
Tallahassee, FL 32314-8030
Phone (904) 488-8733
GEORGIA
Robert Riddle, Acting Director
Child Support Enforcement
P.O. Box 38450
Atlanta, GA 30334-0450
Phone (404) 657-3851 or 3856
GUAM
Margot Bean, Deputy Attorney General
Child Support Enforcement Unit
238 Archbishop F. C. Flores Street
Agana, GU 96910
Phone (671) 475-3360 or 475-3363
HAWAII
Mike Meaney, Administrator
Child Support Enforcement Agency
680 Iwailei Road, Suite 490
Honolulu, HI 96817
Phone (808) 587-3695
IDAHO
Shannon Barnes, Acting Chief
Bureau of Child Support Services
P.O. Box 83720
Boise, ID 83720-0036
Phone (208) 334-5711
ILLINOIS
Dianna Durham-McLoud, Administrator
Child Support Enforcement Division
Illinois Department of Public Aid
32 W. Randolph Street, Rm 923
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone (312) 793-4790
INDIANA
Bryan Richards, Director
Child Support Bureau
402 West Washington Street, Rm W360
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 232-4894
IOWA
Jim Hennessey, Director
Bureau of Collections
Hoover Building - 5th Floor
Des Moines, IA 50319
Phone (515) 281-5580
KANSAS
James Robertson, Administrator
Child Support Enforcement Program
P.O. Box 497
Topeka, KS 66601
Phone (913) 296-3237
KENTUCKY
Steven P. Veno, Director
Division of Child Support Enforcement
275 East Main Street
Frankfort, KY 40621
Phone (502)564-2285, ext. 404
LOUISIANA
Gordon Hood, Director
Support Enforcement Services,
P.O. Box 94065
Baton Rouge, LA 70804-4065
Phone (504) 342-4780
MAINE
Colburn Jackson, Director
Division of Support Enforcement and Recovery
State House Station 11 Whitten Road
Augusta, ME 04333
Phone (207) 287-2886
MARYLAND
Clifford Layman, Executive Director
Child Support Enforcement Administration
311 West Saratoga Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone (410) 767-7674 or 767-7358
MASSACHUSETTS
Jerry J. Fay, Deputy Commissioner
Child Support Enforcement Division
141 Portland Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-1937
Phone (617) 577-7200, ext.30482
MICHIGAN
Wallace Dutkowski, Director
Office of Child Support
P.O. Box 30478
Lansing, MI 48909-7978
Phone (517)373-757
MINNESOTA
Laura Kadwell, Director
Office of Child Support Enforcement
444 Lafayette Road, 4th floor
St Paul, MN 55155-3846
Phone (612) 297-8232
MISSISSIPPI
Carolyn Bridgers, Director
Division of Child Support Enforcement
P.O. Box 352
Jackson, MS 39205
Phone (601) 359-4863
MISSOURI
Teresa Kaiser, Director
Division of Child Support Enforcement
P.O. Box 1527
Jefferson City, MO 65102-1527
Phone (573) 751-1374
MONTANA
Mary Ann Wellbank, Administrator
Child Support Enforcement Division
P.O. Box 202943
Helena, MT 59620
Phone(406) 444-4614
NEBRASKA
Daryl D. Wusk, CSE Administrator
Child Support Enforcement Office
P.O. Box 95026
Lincoln, NE 68509
Phone (402) 471-9390
NEVADA
Leland Sullivan, Chief
Child Support Enforcement Program
2527 North Carson Street, Capitol complex
Carson City, NV 89710
Phone (702) 687-4744
NEW HAMPSHIRE
William H. Mattil, Administrator
Office of Child Support
6 Hazen Drive
Concord, NH 03301
Phone (603) 271 4287
NEW JERSEY
Karen Highsmith, Director
Bureau of Child Support and Paternity Programs
CN 716
Trenton, NJ 08625-0716
Phone (609)588-2402
NEW MEXICO
Ben Silva, Director
Child Support Enforcement Bureau
P.O.Box 25109
Santa Fe, NM 87504
Phone (505) 827-7200
NEW YORK
Robert Doar, Director
Office of Child Support Enforcement
P.O. Box 14
Albany, NY 12260-0014
Phone (518) 474-9081
NORTH CAROLINA
Michael Adams, Chief
Child Support Enforcement Section
100 East Six Forks Road
Raleigh, NC 27609-7750
Phone (919) 571-4120
NORTH DAKOTA
William Strate, Director
Child Support Enforcement Agency
P.O. Box 7190
Bismarck, ND 58507-7190
Phone (701) 328-3582
OHIO
Loretta Adams, Deputy Director
Office of Family Assistance and Child Support Enforcement
30 East Broad Street, 31st Floor
Columbus, OH 43266-0423
Phone (614) 752-6561
OKLAHOMA
Paula Davidson Wood, Acting Administrator
Child Support Enforcement Division
P.O. Box 53552
Oklahoma City, OK 73125
Phone (405) 522-5871
OREGON
Phil Yarnell, Director
Oregon Child Support Program
P.O.Box 14170
Salem, OR 97309
Phone (503) 986-6148
PENNSYLVANIA
John F. Stuff, Director
Bureau of Child Support Enforcement
P.O. Box 8018
Harrisburg, PA 17105
Phone (717) 783-8729
PUERTO RICO
Miguel Verdiales, Administrator
Administration of Child Support
P.O. Box 3349
San Juan, PR 00902
Phone (809) 778-5958
RHODE ISLAND
John F. Murphy, Administrator
Division of Taxation-Child Support Enforcement
77 Dorrance Street
Providence, RI 02903
Phone (401) 277-2966
SOUTH CAROLINA
Larry J. McKeown, Director
Child Support Enforcement Division
P.O. Box 1469
Columbia, SC 29202-1469
Phone (803) 737-5870
SOUTH DAKOTA
Terry Walter, Program Administrator
Office of Child Support Enforcement
700 Governor's Drive
Pierre, SD 57501-2291
Phone (605) 773-3641
TENNESSEE
Joyce D. McClaran, Director
Child Support Services
400 Deadrick Street
Nashville, TN 37248-7400
Phone (615) 313-4879
TEXAS
David Vela, Director
Child Support Division
P.O.Box 12017
Austin, TX 78711-2017
Phone (512) 463-2181, ext.5501
UTAH
James Kidder, Director
Bureau of Child Support Services
P.O. Box 45011
Salt Lake City, UT 84145-001
Phone (801) 536-8911
VERMONT
Jeffery Cohen, Director
Office of Child Support
103 South Main Street
Waterbury, VT 05671-1901
Phone (802) 241-2319
VIRGIN ISLANDS
Aurjul Wilson, Director
Paternity and Child Support Division
48B-5OC Krondprans Gade
St. Thomas, VI 00802
Phone (809) 775-3070
VIRGINIA
Joseph S. Crane, Interim Director
Division of Child Support Enforcement
730 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Phone (804) 692-1501
WASHINGTON
Meg Sollenberger, Director
Division of Child Support
P.O. Box 9162
Olympia, WA 98507-9162
Phone (206) 586-3520
WEST VIRGINIA
Jeff Matherly, Acting Director
Child Support Enforcement Division
Building 6, Room 817
State Capitol Complex
Charleston, WV 25305
Phone (304) 558-3780
WISCONSIN
Mary Southwick, Director
Bureau of Child Support
P.O. Box 7935
Madison, WI 53707-7935
Phone (608) 266-9909
WYOMING
James Mohler, Program Manager
Child Support Enforcement Program
Hathaway Building,
2300 Capital Avenue
Cheyenne, WY 82002-0710
Phone (307) 777-6948
