Domestic Violence and Child Support Systems Functionality for Survivor Safety

NCSEA On Location

Tim Lightner (co-chair of this year’s NCSEA Communication’s Committee, and coming to you from Anchorage, Alaska) and Mariellen Keely (Virginia Child Support, and from Crozet, Virginia) welcome a conversation about domestic violence, and what functionality a child support system should include as many states are going through system modernization. They welcome their guests, Jonell Sullivan (Management Consultant with Public Knowledge) as she makes her On Location debut, along with Michael Hayes (Federal Office of Child Support Services) as he returns to the On Location studio. The discussion centers around what is needed, and important to protect domestic violence survivors, and what can help and what can harm within a child support program’s system. They offer up suggestions that are worth taking note. Listen also as Jonell and Michael share their history in the program, and how they ended up in child support.