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Academics>Library>Searching>Davis
Curriculum Links>Social Work
Alice E. Chatlos
Library of Davis College
Internet Links: Subjects in Davis College Curriculum
Social Work
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Adult Children of Alcoholics
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http://www.adultchildren.org/ Adult
Children of Alcoholics is a Twelve Step, Twelve
Tradition support group for "women and men who
grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional
homes.
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Atlas of United States Mortality
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http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/other/atlas/atlas
Released to the public on April 14, 1997, this
atlas is the first to show all leading causes of
death by race and sex for small U.S. geographic
areas referred to as Health Service Areas (HSA's).
The 18 causes of death included in this atlas
account for 83 percent of all deaths in the
United States during 1988-92.
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Benton Foundation
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http://www.benton.org/ The Benton
Foundation seeks to utilize the public interest
use of communications to bring about social
benefits. Through its seven projects, the
foundation attempts to shape the public interest
in emerging communications environment in the
public interest. The Foundation merges
philanthropy, public policy and community action
to use digital media to engage, equip and
connect people to solve social problems. The
emphasis at this site is on library, education,
public media and communications issues.
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Beyond Indigo
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http://www.beyondindigo.com/ Beyond Indigo
is an online community that provides support to
people who are grieving. It has chat rooms,
grief tools and support, information about
funerals and financial help.
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Children's Defense Fund
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http://www.childrensdefense.org/ The
Children's Defense Fund is dedicated to
educating the public about the needs of
children, with a particular focus on the poor,
minority, and disabled.
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Clara Barton in Dansville NY, 1866 and 1876
-1886
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http://dansville.lib.ny.us/clara.html Read
about Clara Barton's work during her years in
Dansville, New York, recognized as the site of
the first local Red Cross Society of the United
States.
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ConflictNet
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http://www.jca.apc.org/~y-okada/igc/conflictnet/
ConflictNet promotes dialogue and sharing of
information to encourage appropriate dispute
resolution; highlights the work of practioners
and organizations; and is a proving ground for
ideas and proposals across the range of
disciplines within the conflict resolution
field.
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Doctor-assisted Suicide: A Guide to Web Sites
and the Literature
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http://www.longwood.edu/library/suic.htm
Site compiled by librarians listing resources on
euthanasia and doctor assisted suicide,
including legal issues, news broadcasts, a
chronology, and a search engine for finding
additional materials on end of life issues.
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Empowerment Resources for Personal Growth,
Social Change and Ecology
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http://www.EmpowermentResources.com/ This
site offers "quick links to over 300 of the best
Green empowerment resources on the Internet as
well as over 320 good empowerment resource books
(most discounted 20-30%) and over 70 links on
over 24 topics related to personal growth,
social change, and ecology.
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Florida's Health" has links to reports and
health statistics, licenses and permits,
emergencies, mothers and children, tobacco, and
communities.
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Florida's Health: The Florida Department of
Health
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http://www.doh.state.fl.us/
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Gallup Organization
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http://www.gallup.com/ This site contains
links to various polls, reports, trends and
audits of public opinion conducted by The Gallup
Organization. The main page and the "Poll" link
contain the majority of useful free information.
The site contains a search function.
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GuideStar
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http://www.guidestar.org/ A free
information service on the programs and finances
of more than 600,000 charities and nonprofits,
news on philanthropy, and resources for donors
and volunteers.
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Health Care for the Homeless Information
Resource Center
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http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov/hchirc/ The goal
of HRSA is to support HCH grantees to improve
the health status and outcomes for homeless
individuals and families by improving access to
primary health care, mental health services, and
substance abuse treatment. Site includes
electronic medical records resources, data and
statistics, publications, searchable databases
and a search tool to find a health center by
city/state.
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Inequality.org
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http://www.inequality.org/ This site,
created by a network of journalists, writers and
researchers, features "news, information and
expertise on the divide in income, wealth and
health" in the United States. This Web site
explores the gaps between the rich and poor that
are usually ignored by the media.
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Internet Nonprofit Center
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http://www.nonprofits.org/ A great resource
to find information about nonprofits all over
the United States. You can search for a
nonprofit by entering in key terms (or a name)
and the state you are interested in.
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National Assoc. of Social Workers:
http://www.naswdc.org/
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National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development:
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
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National Resource Center on Homelessness and
Mental Illness
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http://www.nrchmi.samhsa.gov/ The National
Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental
Illness provides technical assistance,
identifies and synthesizes knowledge, and
disseminates information. The National Resource
Center links policy makers, service providers,
researchers, consumers and other interested
parties to findings from Federal demonstration
and Knowledge Development and Application (KDA)
projects and research on homelessness and mental
illness.
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New Homemaker
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http://www.newhomemaker.com/ A Domestic
Renaissance being crafted by women and men
who've chosen to stay at home to work and raise
children, and are reinventing and reviving lost
household arts. Resources for cleaning and
crafts, health and thrift, childcare and elder
care favor a traditional and environmentally
friendly wisdom of the hearth.
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Nobel Foundation
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http://nobelprize.org/ The Official Site of
the Nobel Foundation is searchable, and includes
a timeline.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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http://www.peta.org/index.html This site is
full of useful information on a number of animal
rights issues. You can find research projects
and results, investigations and rescues,
factsheets on a variety of animal-related
topics, articles from PETA publications, an
animal cruelty-free shopping guide,
compassionate recipes, and you can visit an
animal research laboratory.
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Progress of Nations 2000
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http://www.unicef.org/pon00/ The nations of
the world ranked according to their achievements
in child health, nutrition, education, family
planning and progress for women.
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Public Agenda
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http://www.publicagenda.org/ Public Agenda
prepares a broad array of educational materials
that help explain policy issues to the public in
a balanced and easy-to-understand way. Our
guides offer a nonpartisan briefing on policy
and polling -- including 'red flags' where poll
results may be misleading; a digest of news,
legislation, and studies; and research sources.
We offer 19 issue guides, each one combining
background information with public opinion
analysis." Covers many issues including
education, race, health care, crime, the
economy, the environment, abortion, social
security, internet speech and privacy, and the
right to die. Useful to both the general public
and policy makers.
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Reuter Foundation AlertNet
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http://www.alertnet.org/ Combines breaking
stories from the Reuters news agency with
communications services for relief
organizations.
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RTK NET: The Right-to-Know Network
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http://www.rtk.net/ A network providing
free access to numerous databases, text files,
and conferences on the environment, housing, and
sustainable development. With the information
available on RTK NET, you can identify specific
factories and their environmental effects;
analyze reinvestment by banks in their
communities; and assess people and communities
affected.
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SafetyNet
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http://home.cybergrrl.com/dv/ This page was
set up to provide resources for information on
domestic abuse. It includes contact information
for domestic violence projects and
organizations, sources of statistics, a domestic
violence handbook posted by Peace at Home and
bibliographies of suggested readings.
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September Project
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http://www.theseptemberproject.org/ The
September Project is a grassroots effort to
encourage public events on freedom, democracy,
and citizenship in libraries on or around
September 11. Libraries around the world are
organizing public and campus events, such as:
displays about human rights and historical
documents; talks and performances about freedom
and cultural difference; and film screenings
about issues that matter.
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Sexual Harassment Hotline Resource List
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http://www.feminist.org/911/harass.html In
addition to useful information, there are facts
about sexual assault and links to other sites.
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Social Issues Collection
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http://content.lib.washington.edu/Socialweb/
The Social Issues Collection is an ongoing
database of historical images from the Western
United States and the Pacific Northwest region.
The collection covers political and social
topics such as women's issues, labor and
government, as well as ethnic groups.
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Social Services InfoNet
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http://www.socservices.com/ Welcome to
Social Services InfoNet, providing access to the
cutting edge in social work and social
services-related databases and information
resources available on the Internet.
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Social Statistics Briefing Room
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/ssbr.html
The purpose of this service is to provide easy
access to current Federal social statistics. It
provides links to information produced by a
number of Federal agencies. All of the
information included in the Social Statistics
Briefing Room is maintained and updated by the
statistical units of those agencies.
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Social Work Access Network:
http://cosw.sc.edu/swan/
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Social Work Search:
http://www.socialworksearch.com/
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Social Work Webliography:
http://www.lib.msu.edu/corby/ebss/socialwork/webliography.html
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Social Work/Social Welfare Websites:
http://www.lib.msu.edu/corby/ebss/socialwork/
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Societal Information
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/5884/
The purpose of this site is to find, collect,
and disseminate information about web sites that
are of value to society.
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Topix.net: Activism News
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http://www.topix.net/news/activism This
site is a continuously updated collection of
activism-related news stories from across the
web. Topix.net uses an artificial intelligence
algorithm to sort incoming news stories from
thousands of internet sources into various
categories.
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Virtual Volunteering Project
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http://www.serviceleader.org/new/virtual/
The Virtual Volunteering Project provides
resources to agencies that recruit and manage
on-line volunteers, as well as to people who are
on-line volunteers.
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Visit a Refugee Camp
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http://www.refugeecamp.org/ Learn about the
basic needs in a refugee camp: shelter, food,
water, sanitation, and health care. Hear the
personal stories of refugees and relief workers.
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VolunteerMatch
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http://www.volunteermatch.org/ A non-profit
organization whose mission is "to facilitate and
increase community involvement via the internet.
[They] seek to collaborate with and complement
existing organizations and build community
resources to get more people involved."
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World Wide Web Resources for Social Work:
http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/wwwrsw/
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World Wide Web Resources for Social Workers
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http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/wwwrsw/ A
search engine and web directory for social
workers.
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