About WICSEC

What is WICSEC?

The Western Interstate Child Support Enforcement Council (WICSEC) was formed in 1983. Child Support leaders from the States of Washington and Oregon realized it would be beneficial for all Western States to form an alliance to better deal with the growing issues surrounding the child support enforcement program. Taking its lead from the National Child Support Enforcement Association (NCSEA) and the Eastern Regional Interstate Child Support Enforcement Association (ERICSA), a meeting was convened and the Council was established.

The Western Interstate Child Support Enforcement Council is a non-profit association. Its membership is comprised of participating public and private child support enforcement agencies and professionals from all states west of the Mississippi River. Its purpose is:

• To foster interstate and inter-jurisdictional cooperation in the establishment and enforcement of child and medical support and the establishment of paternity;
• To facilitate the exchange of knowledge between and among members of the organization that supports and improves inter-jurisdictional, interstate, and international child support practice and procedures;
• To provide for regular meetings, training workshops, seminars and conferences to discuss, teach and educate the membership in order to achieve continued improvement in child and medical support order establishment, the collection of child and medical support, and paternity establishment; and
• To recommend and publicize to its membership relevant legislative, organizational and procedural proposals, considerations and changes to the child support enforcement program.

The Council is comprised of seventeen (17) Directors. One (1) Board Director must be a State IV-D Director from a state west of the Mississippi River. One (1) Board Director must be a county, borough or intrastate regional IV-D employee from a state west of the Mississippi River. One (1) Director must work for a private business that provides services or products to state or county child support enforcement agencies, or to custodial parents, in a state west of the Mississippi River. All other Board Directors shall be residents of states which are west of the Mississippi River, except as expressly provided otherwise in the By-Laws.

Mission Statement of the
Western Interstate Child Support Enforcement Council

The WICSEC organization promotes excellence in the child support community.

WICSEC offers excellent services to the child support community at a reasonable cost, by being an accountable, cost-effective and efficient organization.

WICSEC develops and maintains effective partnerships within the child support community through collaboration, cooperation and inclusion.

WICSEC responds to the changing needs of the child support community by being a progressive, committed and flexible organization.

WICSEC is committed to having fun while serving the child support community.