Earnings

Earnings

TransitionsSF had the largest effects on long-term annual earnings (an average of $1,736 per year). TransitionsSF supported unemployed and underemployed noncustodial parents in finding and maintaining work with the goal of improving participants’ employment outcomes and ability to pay for child support.

These are the five interventions with the largest effects. See Exhibit 1 for all interventions.
Employment

Employment

TransitionsSF had the largest effects on long-term employment (an average of 6 percentage points). TransitionsSF supported unemployed and underemployed noncustodial parents in finding and maintaining work with the goal of improving participants’ employment outcomes and ability to pay for child support.

These are the five interventions with the largest effects. See Exhibit 1 for all interventions.
Public benefit receipt

Public benefit receipt

Parent Success Initiative (PSI) had the largest effects on long-term benefit receipt (decreasing the amount of public benefits received by $503 per year). PSI provided noncustodial parents with low incomes support in finding work with the goal of improving participants’ employment skills and ability to pay child support.

Effects on long-term benefit receipt

Parent Success Initiative (PSI)
$503

Decrease long-term benefit receipt

Education and training

Education and training

Good Transitions had the largest effects on education and training (increasing the attainment of a degree or credential by an average of 15 percentage points). Good Transitions served noncustodial parents with low income by providing subsidized employment combined with case management and training to help them connect to stable employment.

These are the five interventions with the largest effects. See Exhibit 1 for all interventions.

Parents to Work!

Intervention (standard name)
Parents to Work!

Child support and workforce staff were co-located and communicated regularly to quickly connect noncustodial parents to employment services and to modify child support orders. These staff also worked closely with the court system to require noncustodial parents to participate in Parents to Work, review participation, and impose incentives and sanctions when appropriate.

Noncustodial Parent (NCP) Choices Establishment Pilot (EP)

Intervention (standard name)
Noncustodial Parent (NCP) Choices Establishment Pilot (EP)

The Office of the Attorney General partnered with the Texas Workforce Commission and Title IV-D court (part of the state child support enforcement system) to administer the program with the goal of helping parents become more responsible parents and preventing them from falling behind on child support payments. NCP Choices EP was a voluntary program that assisted noncustodial parents early after having a child support order established to help them avoid the accumulation of significant child support debt.

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