NCSEA On Location

“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...

Oftentimes child support is left out of the conversation with other social safety net programs and we miss out on opportunities to collaborate to better serve our customers. Well, as Bob Dylan sang, The Times They Are A-Changin’. There is a now a robust collaboration between many child support professionals and the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA). In this episode, we host a pane...

This week's episode of On Location comes from Virginia, and two famous football cities: Canton, Ohio and Green Bay, Wisconsin.  Our guests discuss the National Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration Program Grants (CSPED) and the upcoming Next Generation Grant Forecast.  Join Mariellen Keely (Virginia Child Support) as she hosts Ann Durkin (Deputy Director, Stark County, OH...

On this episode of On Location, host Veronica Riley (Veronica Riley Training & Consulting) talks with Dr. Marcella Wilson. Dr. Wilson is an expert on poverty and the possibilities that exist to eradicate it. She is the founder of the organization Transition to Success, which designed and implemented an evidenced based system of care for understanding and treating the condition of poverty. She...

Today we come to you from too many locations to count (well, actually 15 different locations across the U.S.)!  On our program today, we are celebrating NCSEA’s premier podcast -- On Location.  Listen and hear the top ten listened to On Location episodes for 2023.  See how many you have heard, and which ones you might want to catch up with.  And for those that have heard all the top ten, we thank...

Welcome to a special edition of NCSEA On Location--coming to you from across the U.S. Today, many of our NCSEA Board visit to share their favorite holiday memories, as well as their hope for the child support program. Settle in, and listen all the way through to hear them all.

Join host Mariellen Keely (VA Division of Child Support) as she has a conversation with NCSEA Policy Forum co-chairs, Laura Galindo (Senior Consultant, CSG Government Solutions in New Mexico) and Trish Skophammer (IV-D Director of the Ramsey County Child Support program, St. Paul, Minnesota).   Both shared their hopes and insights about the upcoming 2024 NCSEA Policy Forum.  If you are on the fenc...

This episode comes to you from New Jersey, Illinois, California, and Alaska.  Today, On Location presents episode four in our series designed to help employers navigate within the child support program and provide required information that is so vital in providing child support funds to families.  We also aim to assist child support professionals with increasing their understanding of sometimes co...

Today we are coming to you from South Carolina/Washington DC, Illinois, California, and Alaska.  On Location is pleased to present episode three in our series designed to help employers engage with the child support program and provide required information that is so vital in providing child support funds to families.  Our focus in this discussion is lump sum wage withholding and reporting.  Joini...

This episode of On Location comes to you from South Carolina/Washington DC, Illinois, California, and Alaska.  Join co-hosts Pat O’Donnell (YoungWilliams) and Tim Lightner (CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc.) as they introduce the second in a series focused on engaging with employers as they contribute to the child support program’s success.  Their guests today are Corri Flores (Director–Governm...

Today’s episode comes to you from Ohio, Colorado, and Alaska.  Tim Lightner (in Anchorage, Alaska with CGI Technologies, and Solutions Inc.) welcomes two guests that are known throughout the child support program, and who are here to join in a conversation about the legislative proposals that NCSEA has initiated.   Amy Roehrenbeck, co-chair of NCSEA’s Policy and Government Relations Committee; and...

Coming to you on location from Washington D.C., California, and Alaska.  Join Emily Jernigan (California Department of Child Support Services) and Tim Lightner (CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc.) as they welcome back Tom Joseph (Paragon Government Relations) to the podcast.  Listen as Tom gives current updates on what is occurring on The Hill, from a new Speaker of the House, to bills and legis...

Today’s program comes to you on location from Blackfeet Nation and Virginia.  Mariellen Keely hosts today’s episode and is joined by Jayla Wells (Iiksook'ksooksik Project Manager, Blackfeet Child Support). They discuss the federal demonstration grant Charting A Course for Economic Mobility which involves fifteen states and two tribes.  Their conversation centers around Blackfeet Nation's project,...