HHS Awards Colorado $830,180 for Child Support Project

Funds help children, support healthy marriage and parental relationships

WASHINGTON, D.C. --- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, Wade F. Horn, Ph.D., today announced $830,180 in federal funding for a demonstration project in the state of Colorado to promote improvements in child support enforcement efforts. The project will take place in up to four counties in the state.

“This grant does not simply deliver money to the state of Colorado, it secures greater financial and emotional support from parents to enhance the well-being of at-risk children—a priority of the Bush Administration,” said Dr. Horn. “We now have 13 child-support enforcement projects that develop and test innovative strategies to support healthy marriages and parental relationships in communities across the nation.”

The grant is awarded under the authority of Section 1115 of the Social Security Act and requires that the project be designed to improve the financial well-being of children or otherwise improve the operation of the child support enforcement program. Section 1115 authorizes states to conduct experimental, pilot or demonstration projects likely to assist in promoting the objectives of the Social Security Act.

The goals of the demonstration project include improving the establishment of paternity and increasing financial support for children as well as improving fathers’ relationships with both their children and the mothers of their children. ...

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