August is National Child Support Awareness month. Support is a key factor in ensuring a child grows up healthily and happily. That's why county Child Support Agencies are working diligently to provide service more more than one million children in Ohio

The program encourages families to support their children by promoting responsible parenting, family self-sufficiency and child well-being, in addition to providing services such as locating parents, establishing parentage, establishing child support and medical support orders, and collecting and distributing child support. 

County Child Support Agencies do not discriminate based on family types or income, helping every type of family including divorced parents, unmarried parents, caretaker relatives and children in foster care.  

This year, in honor of National Child Support Awareness Month, Trumbull County Child Support Enforcement Agency (CSEA) has announced an amnesty program for parents who are struggling with child support related issues.

The program will offer a drivers license reinstatement amnesty for obligors who have had their licenses suspended by the CSEA in exchange for a payment the amount of one monthly obligation plus an additional $1. 

The program also grants amnesty for warrants on contempt for those who have failed to appear in court for a child support related hearings in exchange for one monthly obligation payment plus an additional $1.

The CSEA believes this program will give absent parents means to resolve previous child support issues and give their children the support they need.  

Anyone interested in the amnesty program can contact the CSEA at 330-675-2732 for more information.