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Social Work

  1. Adult Children of Alcoholics :: 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.
  2. Atlas of United States Mortality :: 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.
  3. Benton Foundation :: 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.
  4. Beyond Indigo :: 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.
  5. Children's Defense Fund :: 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.
  6. Clara Barton in Dansville NY, 1866 and 1876 -1886 :: 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.
  7. ConflictNet :: 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.
  8. Doctor-assisted Suicide: A Guide to Web Sites and the Literature :: 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.
  9. Empowerment Resources for Personal Growth, Social Change and Ecology :: 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.
  10. Florida's Health" has links to reports and health statistics, licenses and permits, emergencies, mothers and children, tobacco, and communities.
  11. Florida's Health: The Florida Department of Health :: http://www.doh.state.fl.us/
  12. Gallup Organization :: 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.
  13. GuideStar :: 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.
  14. Health Care for the Homeless Information Resource Center :: 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.
  15. Inequality.org :: 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.
  16. Internet Nonprofit Center :: 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.
  17. National Assoc. of Social Workers: http://www.naswdc.org/
  18. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
  19. National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness :: 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.
  20. New Homemaker :: 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.
  21. Nobel Foundation :: http://nobelprize.org/  The Official Site of the Nobel Foundation is searchable, and includes a timeline.
  22. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals :: 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.
  23. Progress of Nations 2000 :: 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.
  24. Public Agenda :: 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.
  25. Reuter Foundation AlertNet :: http://www.alertnet.org/  Combines breaking stories from the Reuters news agency with communications services for relief organizations.
  26. RTK NET: The Right-to-Know Network :: 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.
  27. SafetyNet :: 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.
  28. September Project :: 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.
  29. Sexual Harassment Hotline Resource List :: http://www.feminist.org/911/harass.html  In addition to useful information, there are facts about sexual assault and links to other sites.
  30. Social Issues Collection :: 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.
  31. Social Services InfoNet :: 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.
  32. Social Statistics Briefing Room :: 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.
  33. Social Work Access Network: http://cosw.sc.edu/swan/
  34. Social Work Search: http://www.socialworksearch.com/
  35. Social Work Webliography: http://www.lib.msu.edu/corby/ebss/socialwork/webliography.html
  36. Social Work/Social Welfare Websites: http://www.lib.msu.edu/corby/ebss/socialwork/
  37. Societal Information :: 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.
  38. Topix.net: Activism News :: 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.
  39. Virtual Volunteering Project :: 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.
  40. Visit a Refugee Camp :: 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.
  41. VolunteerMatch :: 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."
  42. World Wide Web Resources for Social Work: http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/wwwrsw/
  43. World Wide Web Resources for Social Workers :: http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/wwwrsw/  A search engine and web directory for social workers.
   

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