Social Work - Learning for a Lifetime: Selected Websites

"This website offers easy access to statistics and reports on children and families, including: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education and health. The Forum fosters coordination, collaboration, and integration of Federal efforts to collect and report data on conditions and trends for children and families."

This site includes statistics at the state level in areas such as insurance, health costs, minority health and women's health.

Published by the U.S. Census Bureau, this is "the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States."

Information on nearly 4,000 commercially available tests.

"The Test Collection at ETS is a library of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices that makes information on standardized tests and research instruments available to researchers, graduate students, and teachers. Collected from the early 1900s to the present, the Test Collection at ETS is the largest such compilation in the world."

The site "provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families." It includes information on "a wide range of topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption."

This is a "source for research and data that offers an in-depth view of housing in the United States." It provides "free downloads of more than 1,000 publications and data sets published by HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research."

"A product of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Rural Initiative, the Rural Assistance Center (RAC) was established in December 2002 as a rural health and human services "information portal." RAC helps rural communities and other rural stakeholders access the full range of available programs, funding, and research that can enable them to provide quality health and human services to rural residents."

Site maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Resource site for human service and welfare agency professionals.

The Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) is the association of boards that regulate social work. ASWB develops and maintains the social work licensing examination used across the country and in several Canadian provinces, and is a central resource for information on the legal regulation of social work.

"The Clinical Social Work Association enhances those elements necessary to be a successful professional by providing clinical training, legislative advocacy on mental health matters, protection of clients' rights, and economic vitality for Clinical Social Workers."

The site includes links to information on research on a wide variety of topics in social work including child welfare, ethics and homelessness. It also includes NASWJOBLINK, a social work career center.