Child Support and Child Welfare System Interactions 2022–2024 Child Support Policy Research Agreement: Task 2Child Support Policy Research Agreement • July 25th, 2024
Contract Type FiledJuly 25th, 2024This report is the deliverable associated with Task 2 of the 2022–2024 Child Support Policy Research Agreement (CSPRA): “Child support and child welfare system interactions.” The overarching aim of this task is to update the landmark 2017 analysis of the impact of foster care cost-recovery child support orders on children’s foster care placement trajectories (Cancian et al., 2012, 2017). In addition to including a longer time series to provide updated causal estimates on a range of outcomes related to time to reunification, permanency, and foster care re- entry, we describe current child support enforcement policies and practices at the state and federal levels.