Judicial Child Support Collaboration

Maureen Leif, J.D

  1. Introduction
  2. Objectives for the training
  3. Create a Vision
  4. Develop Strategies
  5. Provide Concrete Examples/Case Studies for Brainstorming
  6. Discussion and Brainstorming ideas together?
  1. Vision
  2. Collaborative work begins with a vision that arises from the needs and interest of those involved in the partnership
  3. Vision should be, “imaginable, desirable, feasible, focused, flexible, and communicable”
  4. The act of creating a vision is by its nature an exercise in collaboration
  5. How do you create a vision?
  6. Examples of how to create a vision
  7. Examples of Collaborative Objectives in the child support domain
  8. Enhancing financial and emotional support for children
  9. Sustaining application of uniform standards and practices
  10. Improving customer service
  11. Promoting information sharing
  12. Furthering a holistic approach to addressing the needs of families
  13. Improving performance for courts and child support agencies
  1. Strategies
  2. Collaboration is based upon effective communication among people and organizations who can readily perceive the benefit are (1) improving the quality of work (2) improving the circumstances of the families receiving child support services
  1. Cross-Training
  2. Federal Performance Measures
  3. Court Performance Measures
  4. Logistics
  5. Develop an agenda
  6. Focus on the common client i.e. children and families
  7. Use the initial meeting to develop a vision
  8. Discuss a process for inter-agency communication
  9. What additional stakeholders need to be at the table
  10. Discuss schedule – how often are you going to meet?
  11. Invite the Right People
  12. Invite the Decision-Makers
  13. Consider having a neutral third party facilitate the conversation
  14. Premise the collaboration as an on-going endeavor not a one-time event
  15. Explain Roles and Responsibilities
  16. Explore each agencies points of pain
  17. Develop vision together and strategic plan to tackle points of pain
  18. Building relationships and trust are the keys to a successful partnership
  1. Examples
  2. Colorado Child Support Huddle
  3. Michigan Child Support Leadership Council
  4. Child Support Commission
  5. Cross-Training Webinars/Teleconference Trainings
  6. Problem Solving Court Models
  7. Site Visits
  8. Cross-Collaboration on Outreach
  9. Regularly Scheduled Information Sharing
  10. Opportunities to share data/share technology resources
  1. Resources
  2. OCSE Judicial Child Support Task Group Collaboration Guide
  3. Link to Colorado DISH project
  4. Link to IL CSIDE Project
  5. Harvard review article on Post Mortem
  6. OCSE Article on Child Support Huddle
  7. John P. Kotter, Leading Change, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA 1996

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