2019 Policy Symposium

Dr.Heather Hahn – Transforming Services Lives

Here are some links and information in response to a couple of questions after my presentation. 

1) Here is the idea paper: Transforming Child Support into a Family-Building System

• https://www.mobilitypartnership.org/file/1218896/download?token=i5rjaT_7

2) Here is a public radio article and two scholarly articles about Judge Bruce Peterson’s Family Court demonstration in Hennepin County, Minnesota:

• https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.mprnews.org/story/2012/05/02/co-parent-court-never-married-couples

Mary S. Marczak, Emily H. Becher, Alisha M. Hardman, Dylan L. Galos, and Ebony Ruhland, “Strengthening the Role of Unmarried Fathers: Findings from the Co-Parent Court Project.” Family Process 54, no. 4 (2015): 630– 38.

Mary S. Marczak, Dylan L. Galos, Alisha M. Hardman, Emily H. Becher, Ebony Ruhland, and Kjersti A. Olson,“Co- Parent Court: A Problem-Solving Court Model for Supporting Unmarried Parents,” Family Court Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal 53, no. 2 (2015): 267–78.

3) And here are some slides from a presentation Colorado gave on their child support changes, and the contact information for the Colorado Director of Child Support. 

Katie Griego and Larry Desbien, “Direct Support for Children: Colorado’s Child Support Pass-Through. Senate Bill 15-012,” presented at the National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics 2017 workshop, Pittsburgh, July 30–August 2, 2017, 

• https://nawrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4-2-Desbien-Child-Support-Pass-Throughs.pdf 

Larry Desbien, Director, Colorado Department of Human Services Office of Economic Security, Child Support Services Larry.Desbien@State.CO.US