Social Work Resources & Links

The Social Work Program has compiled the following websites, which you may find useful for your studies.

Selected Social Work Websites

• Children's Defense Fund
• Child Welfare League of America
• Council on Social Work Education
• Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research (IASWR)
• National Association of Social Workers
• National Center for Children in Poverty
• National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse
• National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
• National Organization of Forensic Social Work
• Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR)
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Cultural Social Work Organizations

• Latino Social Workers Organization (LSWO)
• National Association of Black Social Workers

International Social Work Organizations

• International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW)
• International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)

Specialty Social Work Organizations

• Association for Community Organization and Social Administration (ACOSA)
• Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGE-SW)
• Association on Oncology Social Work (AOSW)
• Clinical Social Work Federation (CSWF)
• Influencing State Policy (ISP)
• Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW)
• School Social Work Association of America (SSWAA)
• Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Additional Resources

• Child Welfare Information Gateway
• Help Starts Here
• Information for practice
• International Social Work Field Instruction
• Online MSW Degrees
• Online MSW Programs
• The New Social Worker Online
• Social Welfare Action Alliance
• Scholarships and other resources

Higher Education

• American Education Research Association
• The Chronicle of Higher Education

Research

• Bureau on Labor Statistics
• Campbell Collaboration
• Census Bureau
• ICPSR Education Research Data
• Innovation Network
• National Center for Health Statistics
• PubMed Central - NIH
• World Health Organization

Ethics

• AAAS Responsible Conduct of Research Bibliography
• Office of Human Subjects Research : http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/

Funding

• GrantsNet
• The Foundation Center