WOOSTER — The Wayne County Child Support Enforcement Agency is very productive and efficient. This is not the director saying this, but the state.
For the fifth straight year, the local office has received a best performance award for establishing support orders among medium-sized agencies by the Office of Child Support within the Ohio Department of Job & Family Services. The award was for fiscal year 2015.
“It’s something to be proud of,” Commissioner Ann Obrecht said earlier this month when she and fellow commissioners, Scott Wiggam and Sue Smail, proclaimed August at Child Support Awareness Month.
Establishing paternity and support is a very important piece of the process, Director Brynn Jackson said.
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Jackson and the staff embrace “Support is Key” by “being present.”
The CSEA staff meets parents where they are, whether it is at monthly classes offered by Goodwill Industries of Wayne & Holmes Counties; or local and statewide reentry groups; food distributions by the Wooster Hope Center; or the Helping Children Succeed After Divorce classes.
Though commissioners Obrecht, Wiggam and Smail praised Jackson and her staff for the work they do and how efficient they are, Jackson pointed out the agency has many partners, including parents, grandparents, caregivers, employers (who facilitate payments), the local Job & Family Services, Children Services, the Ohio State University Wayne County Extension Office, judges, advocates and other nonprofit agencies.
The commissioners also recognized Prosecutor Dan Lutz, who oversees Child Support, for his leadership. He said he meets once a week with Jackson, but she and her staff are the ones who make the agency successful.
The agency is such a good one, it is one of eight given the authority to approve what is now known as “parenting time,” formerly known as
For the fifth straight year, the local office has received a best performance award for establishing support orders among medium-sized agencies by the Office of Child Support within the Ohio Department of Job & Family Services. The award was for fiscal year 2015.
“It’s something to be proud of,” Commissioner Ann Obrecht said earlier this month when she and fellow commissioners, Scott Wiggam and Sue Smail, proclaimed August at Child Support Awareness Month.
Establishing paternity and support is a very important piece of the process, Director Brynn Jackson said.
There are 1.3 million children in Ohio …show more content…
Jackson and the staff embrace “Support is Key” by “being present.”
The CSEA staff meets parents where they are, whether it is at monthly classes offered by Goodwill Industries of Wayne & Holmes Counties; or local and statewide reentry groups; food distributions by the Wooster Hope Center; or the Helping Children Succeed After Divorce classes.
Though commissioners Obrecht, Wiggam and Smail praised Jackson and her staff for the work they do and how efficient they are, Jackson pointed out the agency has many partners, including parents, grandparents, caregivers, employers (who facilitate payments), the local Job & Family Services, Children Services, the Ohio State University Wayne County Extension Office, judges, advocates and other nonprofit agencies.
The commissioners also recognized Prosecutor Dan Lutz, who oversees Child Support, for his leadership. He said he meets once a week with Jackson, but she and her staff are the ones who make the agency successful.
The agency is such a good one, it is one of eight given the authority to approve what is now known as “parenting time,” formerly known as