The New York City Human Resources Administration's Office of Child Support Services,

in partnership with the CUNY School of Professional Studies, invites you to join us on

Thursday, October 26, for our 2023 Policy Conference.

 

This year’s conference investigates the intersection between structural racism and the child support program.

 

To understand that, two distinctive and insightful speakers—Jennifer Jones Austin, Esq., Chief Executive Officer of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, and Dr. David Pate, Jr., Associate Professor at the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee—will present keynote addresses that put the program’s practices into social, political, and political context while also connecting policymaking to the reality of its implementation for people of color, particularly Black and Brown parents. 

 

We will hear directly from New York City parents about their experiences with child support, as well as highly experienced researchers, service providers, scholars, and government policy makers who bring the kinds of far-ranging insights needed to move this conversation forward. We will also be turning to conference participants to understand their experiences, perceptions, and ideas.

 

We hope staff and leaders in nonprofit service providers, community-based organizations, legal services providers, researchers, and other government programs will find the combination of on-the-ground insight and high-level research and policy information valuable to their work—and that they join us in what we expect to be an ongoing conversation about a vitally important topic.