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The National Tribal Child Support Association (NTCSA) is a non-profit organization founded in 2001 to act as a national resource to provide culturally specific information on tribal child support enforcement services to all interested individuals and entities. == Brief History of Implementation of Tribal Child Support Programs == Child support programs assist families to obtain and maintain self-sufficiency by holding absent parents legally responsible for the financial well-being of their children. State child support programs have been unable to meet the needs of Native American and Alaskan Native children due to jurisdictional and cultural issues. Lack of this crucial service has caused many Indian children and their families to do without for a very long time. The passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act(PRWORA), (Law 104-193 ), in 1996 (and amended by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Public Law 105-33 that reformed welfare also authorized funding under Title IV, Part D of the Social Security Act giving federally recognized Tribes and Tribal Organizations the opportunity to apply for funding to establish their own child support programs. By 1999, 11 Tribes in six states had submitted applications and been approved to receive federal funding to establish their own tribal child support programs. From 2001 to 2004, eight of those original Tribes, plus one additional tribe (that was granted funding in 2003 but was not one of the initial 11), operated under interim regulations (45 CFR 309) which only provided funding for Tribes already able to meet the interim regulation requirements. Tribal child support programs are bound by different regulations than state programs, but both state and tribal regulations contain the same basic requirements that they must be able to establish paternity, establish, enforce and modify child support orders and they have to be able to locate both custodial and non-custodial parents and their assets. Because federally funded tribal child support enforcement was a brand-new endeavor, the new tribal child support professionals identified a need for a centralized location of resources to meet the training concerns of tribal, local, state, federal and private child support entities. As a result, the National Tribal Child Support Association was founded. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Tribal Child Support Association」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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