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Professional Knowledge of Child Support Staff: Evidence From the New Jersey Child Support Training Program.
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*CHILD support
*CHILD protection services
*CHILD services
*EMPLOYEE training
*CHILD development
*CHILD welfare
*CHILD welfare workers
*DATA analysis
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0193-841X
Abstract
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]