National child support research meeting of the minds
IRP researchers Daniel R. Meyer and Maria Cancian with Urban Institute fellow Elaine Sorensen organized an informal meeting Nov. 3, 2011, of national as well as Wisconsin researchers, policymakers, agency heads, and practitioners to discuss child support research needs. The agenda features comments from U.S. Administration for Children and Families Child Support Commissioner Vicki Turetsky on the research needs and priorities of the Office of Child Support Enforcement and informal discussion. IRP researchers have been informing child support policy for decades. IRP's website has a searchable repository of child support research papers comprising that work at http://www.irp.wisc.edu/research/childsup/pubtopics.htm.
Outcomes
This work benefits researchers across a range of disciplines who seek to inform child support policy; policymakers at the state and national levels who seek to design effective policies for American and Wisconsin families; and practitioners whose experiences and insights administering child support programs to families in need are invaluable to researchers and policymakers. This project, and the larger work behind it, is an excellent example of exchanges among researchers, policymakers, and practitioners that maximize the effectiveness of their collective work, all of which has the ultimate goal of improving the economic security and well-being of children and families.
Focus Areas
Project Leader
Daniel Meyer
Mary C. Jacoby Distinguished Professor Of School Of Social Work
- Department/Unit
- Institute for Research on Poverty & School of Social Work
- School or College
- College of Letters & Science