DCSS helps children receive their financial support and also helps
promote noncustodial parental involvement in children's lives.
Not exact matches
Engaging
Noncustodial Fathers in Child Welfare Cases: A Guide for Children's Attorneys and Lawyer Guardians ad Litem (PDF - 4,198 KB) Pilnik & Kendall (2010) American Humane, American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, & National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare System Provides tips on how to
promote father engagement, including its importance and barriers.
Rhode Island law
promotes the maintenance of family unity, so sole custody rarely means that the
noncustodial parent has no visitation.
This multidimensional, broad - based framework helps
promote father engagement across all levels of society and strategically tackle the diverse barriers that fathers face as they try to become better parents, partners, and providers by providing supports ranging from employment skills to low - income,
noncustodial fathers, to reentry services for fathers recently released from incarceration.24 The OCF helps coordinate a variety of programs and events to
promote father engagement.
The Fathers and Families Center (FFC), a United Way of Central Indiana member agency in Indianapolis, serves fathers and expectant fathers through its federal, state, and locally supported initiatives that
promote responsible fatherhood, increased child support, healthy marriage,
noncustodial father involvement, ex-offender reentry, and crime prevention.
A key aspect of the Initiative is a certification process for fatherhood programs in the state, which ensures consistency and quality of service delivery to low - income,
noncustodial fathers and their families, and recognizes fatherhood programs that have demonstrated exemplary practice.19 The process also allows certified fatherhood programs to offer the State - Owed Arrearage Adjustment Program for eligible participants.20 Connecticut's Initiative has established a quasi-experimental design system to evaluate the fatherhood programs it helps to coordinate.21 The evaluation collected demographic information on the almost 4,000 participants who enrolled in the
Promoting Fatherhood Project from 2006 to 2011.22 The evaluation found that fathers in the program reported needing assistance in education, job training, housing, outstanding child support, parenting time, co-parenting, and parenting skills.
This base support amount may be adjusted up or down to
promote the welfare of the children and to compensate for certain expenses of the
noncustodial parent.