Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services Child Support Advisory Committee met Sept. 12.
Here are the minutes provided by the committee:
Committee Members Present via WebEx/Phone:
Darryl Apperton, Maggie Bennett, The Honorable Grace Dickler, Howard Feldman, Lisa Marks (for Geraldine Franco), Dr. Kirk Harris, Juanita Sanders (for Secretary Grace Hou), Niya Kelly, Elizabeth Lingle, Christina Mahoney, Turyia Clay (for The Honorable Iris Y. Martinez), Nicole McKinnon, The Honorable Judge Alana Mejias, Jessica Patchik, Christine Raffaele, The
Honorable Judge Regina Scannicchio, Vickie Smith, Chlece Walker-Neal-Murray, Richard Zuckerman
Committee Members Absent:
Trent Cameron, The Honorable La Shawn Ford, The Honorable Judge Pamela Loza, The Honorable Judge Amy McFarland, Phillip Mohr, The Honorable Judge Alicia Washington
HFS Staff Present:
Carrie Benson, Irene Curran, Gina Hemphill, Celeste Kannall, Allen Nosler, Daun Perino, Sharon Shapiro, Steve Sharer, Christine Towles, Bryan Tribble, Eric Watson
Public Guests:
Nancy Schafer
• Welcome CSAC members – Bryan Tribble and Richard Zuckerman
• Roll Call of Committee Members – Richard Zuckerman
• Approval of the July 11, 2023 meeting notes – Richard Zuckerman
o Motion to approve – Judge Dickler
o Seconded by Maggie Bennett, passed unanimously.
• Legislation – Richard Zuckerman
o House Bill 3301, House Bill 3699 and House Bill 3677 Update - Richard Zuckerman
▪ Official public act numbers.
▪ Effective January 1, 2024.
• Updates and Reports from Subcommittees - Bryan Tribble
o The 4 subcommittees are:
▪ Imputation of Income
▪ Jessica Patchik
▪ Margaret Bennett
▪ No report at this time
▪ Incarcerated Obligors
▪ Jessica Patchik
▪ No report at this time
▪ Shared Parenting
▪ Howard Feldman
▪ Margaret Bennett
▪ Margaret Bennett - On the list of committees, we have a cliff committee. The physical shared care formula. Other states are paying a consultant to assist with the data.
Hoping HFS can provide some monies towards an economist for guidance.
▪ Using our new guidelines but utilizing Kansas, Minnesota, Oregon, and Indiana’s formulas. The subcommittee is looking at some of the more interesting formulas and removing the cliff.
▪ Also, increasing our multiplier that is currently 1.5.
▪ Richard Zuckerman thanked the subcommittee for her suggestions and stated we will follow up on this.
▪ Self-Support Reserve and Minimum Child Support Orders
▪ Dr. Kirk Harris
▪ Elizabeth Lingle
▪ In the process of meeting and working on the best methods of moving forward with this topic.
o Subcommittees will meet periodically and will update this committee. o The entire Committee will vote on the recommendation put forth by the sub committees.
o Emails forthcoming regarding setting up meetings and leading workgroups.
• Formation of the Community Child Support Advisory Council - Eric Watson & Dr. Kirk Harris
o Community Advisory Board – Eric Watson
▪ The Community Advisory Board was a topic at all of the Town Hall Meetings.
▪ We are really close to having a document ready to share.
▪ Family Advisory Council for Engagement (FACE).
▪ We want our members to have ownership.
▪ Our goal: Share on the front side, communicate and share what it means to our customers.
▪ We want our customers to be advocates to us and we want to be advocates to them.
▪ The document discusses the purpose.
1. The purpose is much like CSAC. We want to find members interested in sharing the subject matter, their experiences, and help guide the future of child support and find ways to make it better.
2. The specifics are to share, strategize, educate, and actively listen.
3. The scope is to improve child support services and assure equity. To improve communication and simplify our messaging.
▪ Our approach is to solicit an application. We are working on a simple one-page application on the front side and possibly a second page for more detail.
1. We will get the application and the charter documents out and will share the information to attract interest.
▪ We are discussing a maximum of 20 members and a minimum of 12 with a 1-year term with a continuation intent.
▪ Other states have identified what makes this successful and encouraged us to be active listeners.
▪ Our responsibility will be committee assignments.
▪ We have discussed ways to evaluate and ways to budget.
▪ This is very important and exciting.
o Community Advisory Board – Dr. Kirk Harris
▪ This document will serve as a fantastic foundation for the initial engagement.
▪ It will be good to think strategically about connecting to partners for recruitment purposes and to ensure diversity.
▪ The next step is to figure out what networks look like and to be clear about the values we are trying to advance.
▪ We need to embrace the uncertainty of what it means to engage parents and harvest their ideas/information to build better practices and policies.
▪ This will put Illinois on the cutting edge.
• Old/New Business
o Old Business:
No old business.
o New Business:
No new business
• Public Comments
None
• Next meeting is November 14, 2023
• Motion to adjourn, Second, Passed by unanimous vote
• Richard Zuckerman thanked everyone for attending.
https://hfs.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/hfs/sitecollectiondocuments/09122023csacnotes.pdf
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