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Jul 31 2019
DSHS Office of Communications, Norah West, (360) 902-7833
OLYMPIA- Every four years a federally mandated Child Support Schedule Workgroup made up of parents, advocates and other experts on child support is created to review the Washington State Child Support Schedule. This schedule is used to determine how much parents pay for child support.
To make sure that the workgroup hears from everyone on this important issue, it has scheduled two public meetings, one on each side of the state. Those meetings are:
Jul 28 2019
DSHS Office of Communications, Norah West, (360) 902-7833
OLYMPIA- As children are immersed in summertime activities and with back-to-school time just around the corner, Washington state celebrates our families with Child Support Awareness Month each August. The month-long celebration lets parents know that the Department of Social and Health Services’ Division of Child Support can help them provide for their ...read the full news release
Jul 15 2019
DSHS Office of Communications, Kelly Stowe, 360-902-7739
OLYMPIA -- The Department of Social & Health Services’ Economic Services Administration announced it has been awarded a grant for $500,000 from The Kresge Foundation as part of their Next Generation (NextGen) initiative. This grant supports the agency’s strategic goal to reduce poverty by half in 2025 in a way that eliminates disparities. DSHS co-leads Governor Inslee’s ...read the full news release
Jun 05 2019
DSHS Office of Communications, Chris Wright,
OLYMPIA - Governor Jay Inslee has proclaimed June 2019 Adult Abuse Awareness Month. In 2018, Adult Protective Services (APS), a division of the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), received more than 60,000 reports of vulnerable adult abandonment, abuse, neglect, financial exploitation and self-neglect. It’s a sharp increase from the 48,000 reports received in 2017 and more than triple the 19,000 reports in 2012. This awareness month is designed to promote education, ...read the full news release
Jun 04 2019
DSHS Office of Communications, Kelly Stowe, 360-902-7739
KENNEWICK – There are still openings in a program providing free job training and support services for parents in Benton, Franklin and Walla Walla counties. Over the next two years the Families Forward Washington program, sponsored by the Department of Social and Health Services’ (DSHS) Division of Child Support, is expected to serve up to 100 parents who owe child support.
Parents ...read the full news release
