NCSEA On Location

Today’s episode comes to you on location from various places in California, New York, Tennessee, Washington DC, and Anchorage, Alaska.  On today’s show, Veronica Riley and Tim Lightner lead a conversation off past and current commissioners from the Federal Office of Child Support Services.  They share their perspectives and their reflections of NCSEA over the years.  Our guests include Dr. Sherri...

On Location returns to celebrate 50 years of the National Child Support Engagement Association and comes to you from across North America:  New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, California, and British Columbia, Canada. On today’s show, Pat O’Donnell and Veronica Riley continue their conversation with Margot Bean, Scott Cade, Erin Frisch, Steven Golightly, Alisha Griffin,...

On Location continues to celebrate the 50 years of the National Child Support Engagement Association and comes to you from across North America:  New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, California, and British Columbia, Canada. On today’s show, Pat O’Donnell and Veronica Riley lead a conversation with Margot Bean, Scott Cade, Erin Frisch, Steven Golightly, Alisha Griffin, Hannah Root...

Today’s episode returns to you from Anchorage, Alaska and Brooklyn, New York along with voices from around the country.  On today’s show, Nick Palos and Tim Lightner lead the rest of a conversation with a group of NCSEA past Presidents, Executive Directors, and other NCSEA leaders including Vernon Drew, Colleen Eubanks, Ann Marie Ruskin, Chris Wood, Lori Bengston, Jim Fleming, Charles Smith, and J...

Today’s episode comes to you from Anchorage, Alaska and Brooklyn, New York along with voices from around the country. On today’s show, Tim Lightner and Nick Palos lead a conversation with a group of NCSEA past Presidents , Executive Directors, and other NCSEA leaders including Vernon Drew, Colleen Eubanks, Ann Marie Ruskin, Chris Wood, Lori Bengston, Jim Fleming, Charles Smith, and Joe Mamlin. The...

Today’s program comes to you from Virginia and California.  Join Emily Jernigan (Regional Administrator for the California Department of Child Support Services) and Mariellen Keely (Grants and Initiatives Consultant Senior, Virginia Child Support) as they host today’s episode.  They welcome David Kilgore (Director), Justin Freitas (Deputy Director), Catherine Manzano (Chief Information Officer) an...

Tim Lightner (co-chair of this year’s NCSEA Communication’s Committee, and coming to you from Anchorage, Alaska) and Mariellen Keely (Virginia Child Support, and from Crozet, Virginia) welcome a conversation about domestic violence, and what functionality a child support system should include as many states are going through system modernization.  They welcome their guests, Jonell Sullivan (Manage...

Today’s podcast is hosted by Pat O’Donnell (of YoungWilliams and coming to you from Illinois).  She is joined by Matt Brega (Assistant Director and Supervising Attorney, Contra Costa County Department of Child Support Services), Lori Cruz (Director, Contra Costa County Department of Child Support Services), Corri Flores (Director –Government Affairs Wage Garnishments Compliance & Shared Servic...

Today’s program comes to you from Crozet, Virginia and Kansas City, Missouri, where Mariellen Keely (VA Child Support) welcomes back to the podcast, a familiar and esteemed guest, Barbara Lacina (Regional Administrator for Region 7 of the Administration for Children and Families).   Mariellen hosts an engaging conversation, as Barbara catches us up on her new role, after serving 32 years as a chil...

This week’s episode of On Location comes to you from Michigan and Virginia. Join Mariellen Keely (Grants & Initiatives Consultant Senior, Division of Child Support, Virginia Department of Social Services) as she hosts today's program. Mariellen welcomes April Williams (Navigation Program Manager of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services/Child Support pilot program – Navigatio...

This week’s episode of On Location is coming to you from across the country:  Louisiana, Michigan, California, and Alaska. Join co-hosts Tim Lightner (co-chair of this year’s NCSEA Communications Committee, and coming to you from Anchorage, Alaska) and Emily Jernigan (Regional Administrator, Southern Region for the California Department of Child Support Services). Together they host Konitra Jack (...

Today’s program comes to you from Michigan, Iowa, California, and Alaska.  Tim Lightner (co-chair of this year’s NCSEA Communications Committee -- and coming to you from Anchorage, Alaska) and DeAnna Rice (Administrative Assistant to Director David Kilgore of the California Department of Child Support Services) team up to co-host today’s podcast.  They welcome two new guests, Kelly Micka (Director...

“Membership has its privileges” is an advertising slogan made famous by American Express.  The implication, of course, was that rewards and other things were available only through membership.   So, if you wanted to get in on the rewards, you had to be a “member.”  Today’s episode is co-hosted by DeAnna Rice (Administrative Assistant II, Office of the Director, CA Department of Child Support Servi...

Today’s podcast comes to you from California and Ohio.  Join Emily Jernigan (Regional Administrator, Southern Region for the California Department of Child Support Services) and Brandi Gallebo (Manager with the Franklin County, Ohio Child Support Enforcement Agency) as they co-host today.  They welcome Laura Van Buskirk (Director, Placer County, California Department of Child Support Services) and...

On today's episode Vernoica Riley (Veronica Riley Training & Consulting; California) talks to Tara Rolstad (Lake Oswego, Oregon) about mental health and self-care in the workplace. Tara is a mental health expert, professional speaker, author, and trained advocate with nearly 15 years of experience who helps organizations break open powerful conversations about mental health. In addition to...

This week’s edition of On Location comes to you from Washington and California.  Today, Veronica Riley (Veronica Riley Training & Consulting; California) has a conversation with Renee Smith (Founder and CEO of A Human Workplace; Washington).  Get to know Renee and learn about her unwavering advocacy for love in the workplace.  Listen as they discuss what led Renee to this work, and how to make...

How can you constructively navigate sometimes difficult conversations?  Coming to you from Illinois and California, join Emily Jernigan of California Department of Child Support Services and Pat O’Donnell of YoungWilliams as they discuss the importance of Crucial Conversations with Jasper Jacobs, Training Facilitator from the California Department of Child Support Services – Training and Developme...

In today's landscape, there's plenty of obstacles and stress that leaders and staff are facing, and it may be more important than ever to explore the benefits of mindfulness and well-being. In today’s episode, Mariellen Keely (State of Virginia Child Support; Charlottesville, VA) and Veronica Riley (Veronica Riley Training & Consulting; Lodi, California) interview Lee Papa (Lee Papa, L...

Today’s program comes to you from Chicago, Illinois; Heidelberg, Germany; Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; and Rancho Cordova, CA.  Join Pat O’Donnell (YoungWilliams) as she hosts Thomas Meysen (SOCLES International Centre for Socio-Legal Studies), Hannah Roots (Hannah Roots Law) and Kristen Erickson Donadee (Chief Deputy Director, CA Child Department of Child Support Services).  They have a ro...

Today’s episode comes to you from Washington DC and Alaska, where Tim Lightner (from Anchorage, Alaska) hosts Raghavan Varadachari from the Federal Office of Child Support Services (better known as OCSS). He is joining us to have a conversation about the future of child support systems – a topic of interest to many in the child support community -- and give a little more understanding, including a...

Today’s episode comes to you on location from Georgia, Ohio and Colorado.   Lisa Westfall (Enforcement Supervisor with Franklin County, Ohio Child Support Enforcement Agency) welcomes Maureen Leif (President of Grays Peak Strategies in Colorado), and John Hurst (Marietta, Georgia).  They have a conversation about the upcoming NCSEA-U offering, how it can help you understand the child support progr...

Today’s program comes to you from Franklin County, Coumbus, Ohio. Join Brandi Gallebo of Franklin County Child Support Enforcement Agency, as she hosts a conversation with Susan Brown (Director of Franklin County CSEA). Learn about Susan’s history and background in the child support program spanning over the past twenty-seven years. Listen as she shares her thoughts with the NCSEA community in tra...

Today’s On Location episode comes to you from Swansboro, North Carolina, and Raleigh, North Carolina. Get ready to join Tammy Pearson (the Director of Operations for YoungWilliams’ North Carolina offices) as she welcomes and hosts Judge Ashleigh Parker (District Court Judge for Wake County, North Carolina).  Listen and get to know Judge Parker, as they talk about her biggest inspiration, and makin...

This week's edition of On Location comes to you from Virginia and Tennessee. This is the second episode discussing the National Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration Program Grants (CSPED) and the now current Next Generation Grant Forecast . Join Mariellen Keely (Virginia Child Support) as she hosts David Teasdale (Program Manager, Special Projects, Federal Reporting, and...

This week's episode of On Location comes to you from Virginia and North Carolina.  Join Mariellen Keely (Virginia Child Support) as she hosts Taylor Ashe (Policy Program Consultant, Virginia Child Support) to  discuss his January NCSEA CSQ Article :  “Behavioral Economics and Attracting Customers to the IV-D Program.”  Taylor explains how, with the help of his colleagues on the NCSEA Research...