Tennessee Child Support
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Educate the community about the needs and problems of children by compiling information on the status of Tennessee's children and speaking at conferences and meetings; ... Provide regional councils for the exchange of information among those concerned about the needs and problems of children and to encourage mutual support and cooperation; ... Coordinate efforts to enhance services for children and youth, especially in the areas of juvenile justice and teen pregnancy prevention; ... [Read More]
Child Support
Child Support Establishes legal fatherhood of children born to unmarried parents by voluntary acknowledgment of paternity or through genetic testing. Voluntary acknowledgment only requires that the parents complete a legal form and sign the form in front of a notary. (There is no fee to acknowledge paternity for a child up to age one. After the child's first birthday, there is a small fee to add the father to the child's birth certificate.) Child Support can obtain genetic testing by administrative order or by a court order. ... [Read More]
TN Department of Education:K-12
Welcome to the Tennessee Department of Education. A quality education is the fundamental right of every child in Tennessee. The department provides many services, and it is our responsibility to ensure equal, safe, and quality learning opportunities for all students, pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Therefore, our mission is to help teachers teach and children learn. ... Service: We are here to support the 136 school districts and 1,677 schools in Tennessee and to help them in their daily efforts to educate our children. We also provide services to approximately 575 private schools and thousands of home-schooled students across the state. When making inquiries to our department, you should expect prompt, thoughtful, and courteous responses. ... [Read More]
Program Description and Contact Information
Services to help families locate absent parents, obtain child support, enforce child support orders, or establish paternity. ... Tennessee's welfare reform program. A temporary cash assistance program that emphasizes work, training, education, and personal responsibility. A variety of other support services are available to help customers make the transition to self-sufficiency. ... This corporation is a quasi-state, nonprofit financial agency designed to assist in the enhancement, expansion, and creation of child care facilities through loan guarantees, direct loans, and corporate/community partnership grants. ... [Read More]
Child Support
This Division receives appeals and conducts fair hearings for applicants and clients who believe they did not receive the services and/or benefits from the Department of Human Services to which they are entitled. The division handles appeals for all programs administered by the Department of Human Services, including eligibility for TennCare/Medicaid, Food Stamp, Families First, Child Support and Vocational Rehabilitation cases. The Division of Appeals and Hearings strives to timely resolve appeals while ensuring due process and maintaining the highest quality of communication possible. ... [Read More]
Toll Free Numbers
Features an automated voice response system with a menu of choices for individuals who need information about a child support case, child support payment, also to report information on a non-custodial parent, or update case information. ... Hotline for information regarding the Voluntary Acknowledgment of Paternity form, paternity establishment, Presumption of Parentage law, genetic testing and child support. ... Help line for employers with questions about child support wage withholdings, billing's, etc. ... [Read More]
First Lady Andrea Conte
Child advocacy centers are nonprofit facilities that provide a warm, caring and nurturing environment for children who have been victims of physical or sexual abuse. The centers serve a dual role: They help law-enforcement officials conduct investigations into child abuse while providing much-needed counseling and support to children who have been robbed of their innocence. The First Lady believes that every child in Tennessee who needs these services should have access to a child advocacy center. ... [Read More]
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The Child Support Services Division is responsible for the location of non-custodial parents for the purpose of establishing paternity, establishing child support orders, enforcing child support orders, securing and enforcing health insurance coverage and the collection and distribution of child support payments. Our agency's goal is to ensure that all children have the financial support of both parents. ... If the non-custodial parent resides out-of-state, child support is pursued through the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA). States using standardized forms submit information to other states that assist in child support establishment/enforcement. ... [Read More]
Child Care Services
The quality of child care has a direct impact on a child's ability to learn, to build healthy relationships and to become the best they can be. The critical decision of where to place their child, however, is often difficult and confusing for parents. Because the quality of child care, and a positive future for our children, depends on parents having tools necessary for making informed choices for their family, the Department of Human Services is helping parents with this very important decision through Tennessee's Child Care Report Card System . Under Tennessee's Child Care Report Card System , every licensed child care agency must be evaluated and post a report card of the results. Beginning October 1, 2001, staff began evaluating agencies using the Tennessee's Child Care Report Card System as their licenses became due for renewal. By October 2002, all licensed child care agencies will have received an evaluation and will be required to post their report card with their renewal ... [Read More]
Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth Inventory of Services
Referral guide for children and adolescents needing respite care ... Tennessee Department of Children's Services - Northeast Tennessee Region ... A general list of services related children and youth in state custody or at-risk of entering state custody. Primarily generated for in-house use. ... [Read More]
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