Professional knowledge of child support staff: evidence from the New Jersey child support training program.
Child support enforcement (CSE) has experienced dramatic changes in the last decade; however, it is not clear whether child support staff is fully aware of the development. Using data from the New Jersey child support training program (n = 530), this article aims to evaluate the professional knowledge of child support staff. The results show that participants answered 55% of the questions on CSE correctly in the pretraining assessment. After the training, the participants answered 77% of all questions correctly. The findings reveal an urgent need for training for child support staff in a rapidly changing profession.
Huang
Chien-Chung
CC
School of Social Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA. chuang@ssw.rutgers.edu
Blake
Allison
A
Edwards
Richard L
RL
Liu
Chieh-Wen
CW
Nolan
Robert B
RB
Rusen
Barbara
B
Thompson
Dina
D
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