Helping Noncustodial Parents Support Their Children: Early Implementation Findings from the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration Evaluation

This early implementation report by the Institute for Research on Poverty and Mathematica Policy Research provides interim findings from the Office of Child Support Enforcement’s (OCSE) Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration Project (CSPED), which began in Fall 2012 and ends in September 2017. The project is tracking activity and outcomes of CSPED programs in eight states. Child Support agencies in each state are providing enhanced child support services, employment assistance, parenting education, and case management services for noncustodial parents who experience difficulty meeting their child support obligations. The report looks at the first two years of CSPED, which consisted of a planning year and one year of program operations.