| Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance | ||
Credo Reference |
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| Encyclopedia of Social Work (4 vol.) | Ref HV12 .E53 2008 | |
| Public Human Services Directory | Ref HV 89.A55 2004 | |
| Social Security Administration's Office of Policy | ||
| Social Workers’ Desk Reference | Ref HV 40 .S6464 2002 | |
| Statistical Abstract of the United States | Ref HA 202.S7 |
| The Complete Directory for People with Disabilities | Ref HV 1553.C58 2002 | |
| Encyclopedia of Adoption | Ref HV 875.55 .A28 1991 | |
| Encyclopedia of American Prisons | Ref HV 9471 .E425 1996 | |
| Encyclopedia of Child Abuse | Ref HV 6626.5 .C57 2001 | |
| Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society |
Ref HQ 767.84 .E53 2003 | |
| Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice | Ref HV 6017 .E52 2002 | |
| Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior | Ref HV 5804 .E53 2000 | |
| Encyclopedia of Genocide | Ref HV 6322.7 E53 1999 | |
| Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia | Ref HQ 9 .H846 1994 | |
| International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family | Ref HQ 9 .E52 2003 |
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| HM Sociology | HT Communities. Classes. Races | |
| HN Social history. Social problems. Social reform | HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology | |
| HQ The family. Marriage. Women | HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism |
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Information on social work issues can be found under many headings in our online catalog. To become familiar with the vocabulary, consult the Encyclopedia of Social Work (Ref HV 35 .S6) and the Library of Congress Subject Headings (which you can browse in the online catalog.)
| Emigration and immigration | Social case work | |
| Family violence | Substance abuse | |
| Foster home care | Welfare recipients | |
| Public welfare | Welfare rights movement | |
| School social work |
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Criminal Justice Abstracts (1977 - present)
Women Studies Abstracts (1972 - 2000)
Women's Studies Index (1989 - 2002)
EBSCO
LexisNexis
Government & political news, Law reviews, Legal news, State legal
research, Book reviews
Social
Services Abstracts
Provides coverage of current research focused on social work, human
services, and related areas. 1,500 journals, along with citations
of book reviews.
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National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
Web site for the professional organization. Includes areas of specialty and resources--some require membership. Learn about the NASW.
Information for Practice:
International news for social
service professionals on the profession and emerging scholarship.
Aims to create a global sense of the profession
and serve as a global socialization force
for students. Includes news, articles, and grey literature.
Moving Ideas: The Electronic Policy
Network
A menu directs you to articles on Children/Families, Crime/Justice, Education,
Labor , Poverty, Race…
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
Social
Work and Social Services Web Sites
Extensive listing of sites by topic. From
the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Understanding Prejudice
Created in 2002 with funding from the National Science
Foundation. Although this web site is
intended to supplement an anthology entitled Understanding Prejudice
and Discrimination, all pages and activities are freely available.
Urban Institute
A nonpartisan economic and social policy research organization.
The Urban Institute measures effects, compares options, shows which stakeholders
get the most and least, tests conventional wisdom, reveals trends, and
makes costs, benefits, and risks explicit.
Social Work Pioneers (from the National Association of Social Workers Foundation)
NASW Pioneers are social workers who have explored new territories and built outposts for human services on many frontiers. Some are well known; others less famous outside their immediate colleagues and the region where they live and work. But each has made an important contribution to the social work profession and to social policies through service, teaching, writing, research, program development, administration, or legislation.
Child Welfare Information
Gateway
A service of the Children's
Bureau, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, providing information to help protect children and strengthen families,
including online resources in
Spanish.
Topics listed include: Family-Centered Practice, Child Abuse & Neglect (plus prevention and response), Supporting and Preserving Families, Out-of-Home Care, Achieving and Maintaining Permanency, Adoption, Cultural Competence and Assessment.
Resources include: National Adoption Directory Search (with State-by-State contact information for a variety of adoption-related organizations and services), Publications Search, Statistics, National Organizations and others..
Internet Resources on Aging
Access to 500 sites that AARP has reviewed and selected.æ
Each link is reviewed and tested and either updated or removed every four
months. Eleven broad topics available for searching, includes abstracts
of publications.
National Center for Children
in Poverty
NCCP
is a Columbia University research organization to prevent child poverty
in the United States and improve the lives of low-income children and
families. They research policies that promote: --Economically secure families,
--Children entering school ready to succeed , --Stable, nurturing families.
Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities
National Center for Children
in Poverty
NCCP
is a Columbia University research organization to prevent child poverty
in the United States and improve the lives of low-income children and
families. They research policies that promote: --Economically secure families,
--Children entering school ready to succeed , --Stable, nurturing families.
National Center for Law and Economic Justice (formerly the Welfare Law Center) advances the cause of economic justice for low-income families, individuals and communities across the country.
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accessIndiana
This is the official web site of the State of Indiana. Menu topics include:
Family, health, safety; Law, justice; Public Assistance. There are links
to many other related agencies and organizations.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Database of all federal programs available to state
and local governments.
GPO Access
GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides
free electronic access to a wealth of important and official information
products produced by the Federal Government.
National Center for Law and Economic Justice (formerly the Welfare Law Center) advances the cause of economic justice for low-income families, individuals and communities across the country.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Administered by the Office of Justice Programs*, U.S.
Dept. of Justice.
Includes topics: Corrections, Courts, Drugs and Crime, International,
Juvenile Justice, Law Enforcement, Victims of Crime, Statistics, and more&.
Some topics have more up-to-date information than others.
The NCJRS Virtual Library searches full-text publications on the website (go to the menu at the far right of the home page) as well as from the web sites of the agencies of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs* and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
*The Office of Justice Programs include the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, and the Office for Victims of Crime.
Social Security Administration's
Office of Policy
Provides policy analysis and research, evaluation, and statistics.
Offers access to the Social
Security Bulletin and Annual
Statistical Supplement, along with many other reports and statistics.
Statistical Abstract
of the United States
Summarizes statistics on social, political, and economic characteristics
of the U.S.
THOMAS Legislative Information on the
Internet
The Library of Congress maintains this site of legislative information
including bills, laws, committee reports, Senate & House schedules,
etc.
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