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Mission Statement

Promote parental responsibility to enhance the well-being of children by providing child support services to establish parentage and collect child support.

Four counties combined to enhance the southern region.

Local Child Support Agencies

Below you will see a brief summary of the county. Click on the county for more information.

Kern County

Child Support Services

Kern County comprises the Bakersfield, California, Metropolitan statistical area. The county spans the southern end of the Central Valley. Covering 8,161.42 square miles (21,138.0 km2), it ranges west to the southern slope of the Coast Ranges, and east beyond the southern slope of the eastern Sierra Nevada into the Mojave Desert, at the city of Ridgecrest.

LOCAL CHILD SUPPORT NUMBERS

  • Total Number of Parents: 81,772

  • Total Number of Children: 54,235

  • Total Number of Children Provided Health Insurance: 29,963 Children

  • Total Number of Child Support Cases: 51,130 Cases

Visit Kern County DCSS Website

Imperial County

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Imperial County is home to approximately 180,000 residents which live and work within its seven cities (Brawley, Calexico, Calipatria, El Centro, Holtville, Imperial and Westmorland). The county was the last to be established in California in 1907 and is the ninth largest California County encompassing 4,284 square miles.

Imperial County has much to offer. We have a rich agricultural heritage, which includes the production of over half of our nation’s winter vegetables, an extensive amount of renewable resources, including geothermal, wind, and solar, a wide range of cultural and outdoor recreational activities with hundreds of points of interest such as the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, a magnet for off-road enthusiasts, and the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge, a renowned birding site, and a lively population with frequent family-oriented community events.

LOCAL CHILD SUPPORT NUMBERS

  • Total Number of Parents: 18,313

  • Total Number of Children: 10,756

  • Total Number of Children Provided Health Care: 149 Children

  • Total Number of Child Support Cases: 9,332 Cases

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Riverside County

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Riverside County is one of the fifty-eight counties in the U.S. state of California. With a population of 2,189,641, making it the 4th-most populous county in California and the 11th-most populous in the United States. Riverside County covers 7,208 square miles (18,670 km2) in Southern California, spanning from the Greater Los Angeles area to the Arizona border. Riverside County is included in the Riverside-San BernardinoOntario, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, also known as the Inland Empire.

Along with neighboring San Bernardino County, it’s one of the fastest growing regions in the state before the recent changes in the regional economy. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 7,303 square miles (18,910 km2), of which 7,206 square miles (18,660 km2) is land, and 97 square miles (250 km2) (1.3%) is water.[11] It is the fourth-largest county in California by area. Riverside County, California, is roughly the size of the State of New Jersey in total area.

The county is also the location of the March Air Reserve Base, one of the oldest airfields continuously operated by the United States military and has 12 federally recognized Indian reservations with a focus Native American Gaming enterprises.

LOCAL CHILD SUPPORT NUMBERS

  • Total Number of Parents: 133,074

     

     

  • Total Number of Children: 80,584

     

  • Total Number of Children Provided Health Care: 53,430 Children

     

  • Total Number of Child Support Cases: 75,330 Cases

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San Bernardino County

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San Bernardino County, officially the County of San Bernardino, is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California, and is located within the Inland Empire area. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population was 2,035,210,[6] making it the fifth-most populous county in California, and the 12th-most populous in the United States.

LOCAL CHILD SUPPORT NUMBERS

  • Total Number of Parents: 152,919

  • Total Number of Children: 100,228

  • Total Number of Children Provided Health Care: 35,954 Children

  • Total Number of Child Support Cases: 94,221 Cases

Visit San Bernardino County DCSS Website

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