Inter-Agency Collaboration Among Social Services Agencies in Los Angeles County

This report focuses on the intersection of child support with child welfare and the TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) Programs. It examines the many ways in which cases come to be served by child support and child welfare and/or child support and TANF; It raises awareness of the many cases shared by these three agencies; It highlight some of the problems that can occur when each agency operates without knowledge of the overlap in cases; It discusses some of the obstacles that agencies, and specifically the child support, child welfare and TANF agencies in Los Angeles County, face in their efforts to collaborate in serving shared cases; and It showcases actions taken in Los Angeles County in recent years to improve the handling of cases with multiple agency involvement. Mi