- CPR is a non-profit organization with over 35 years of experience conducting research and evaluation and providing technical assistance on policies affecting children and families for government agencies at the federal, state, and local level; courts, and private foundations.
- While Dr. Robert Williams relinquished his role at PSI around 2007, a noted colleague who co-authored several articles with him (Dr. Jane Venohr) continued her work at CPR.
- She has authored studies in over 25 states (see list)
- One cannot underestimate the influence that she has played in continuing the child support bureaucracy. The technical document she has authored cleverly disguise policy decisions as mere technical exercises.
- When I talked to her about the inflated child support awards, her comment was ‘Children can always use more financial resources’. This philosophy ignores two realities: no state requires child support to be spent on children and there are limited financial resources.