At Risk Youth
The Bureau For At-Risk Youth - http://www.at-risk.com

Children and Family Issues
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Important information is made available as a public service to help parents and families.

American Humane Association
This site offers information and resources to help prevent the abuse and neglect of children and animals, and to assure that their interests are guaranteed.

Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
" We are an interdisciplinary research center located within the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. We are concerned with a broad range of children's issues, including income security, education, health, family and communities. The Center's long term goal is to identify policies that address children's needs in each of these areas and, at the same time, are economically efficient and politically feasible. To achieve this goal, we conduct basic research on child health and development as well as evaluations of specific policies and programs."

Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice (CECP)
This site provides online information resources and related links on improving services to children and youth with emotional and behavioral problems.

Child Abuse & Neglect Online
National Information Services Corporation, in association with the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information,offers free Internet access to the foremost bibliographic resource on the maltreatment of children. This valuable research tool is available to libraries and other qualified institutions. NISC's intuitive web interface and search software lets any user, from beginner to expert, access these important databases with ease.

Child & Family Policy Center
This site provides an overview of the CFPC's various activities related to its mission "to better link research and policy on issues vital to children and families, and to advocate for outcome-based policies to improve child well-being.

Child and Family WebGuide
A resource for parents provided by Tufts University which describes and
evaluates sites that contain research-based information about infants,
children and teens.

Child Welfare League of America
The Child Welfare League of America is the nation's oldest and largest organization devoted entirely to the well-being of America's vulnerable children and their families.

Children's Bureau
The oldest federal agency for children, the Children's Bureau (CB) is located within the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families. It is responsible for assisting states in the delivery of child welfare services. The agency provides grants to states, tribes and communities to operate a range of child welfare services, including child protective services (child abuse and neglect) family preservation and support, foster care, adoption and independent living. In addition, the agency makes major investments in staff training, technology and innovative programs.

Children's Defense Fund
This private nonprofit organization exists to defend the interests of children. Accordingly, it's Web site contains information on welfare reform and its impact on children.

Children Now!
This resource on current issues involving children and child welfare also includes a list of links to other online resources concerned with children's issues.

Families Worldwide
This private nonprofit organization's mission is to strengthen families around the world. The Web site contains articles, news and links in support of families and family programs.

Family and Youth Services Bureau
This site from the Department of Health and Human Services offers announcements of funding and policies, publications information, and answers to FAQs.

Family Research Laboratory
The Family Research Laboratory (FRL) is an independent research unit devoted to the study of family problems.

Family Support America
This family support Web site includes news affecting families and communities, assistance and resource access, and an electronic bulletin board.

Family Village
This site offers integrated information, resources, and opportunities for parents of children with mental and other disabilities.

National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
This national resource for professionals seeking information on the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect includes a searchable catalog of prevention programs, statistics, and legal information.

National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth (NCFY)
This clearinghouse provides information on grant announcements, new policy initiatives and publications.

National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA)
This national resource organization provides community-based, culturally-appropriate services dedicated to the well-being of all American Indian children and families.

ParentsPlace
This site offers a wide range of information sources on parenting and family issues along with a wealth of practical information on raising children.

Pathways Mapping Inititiative
The Pathways Mapping Inititiative website holds a wealth of findings about what it takes to improve the lives of children and families living in America's tough neighborhoods.

Progress: Family Systems Research and Therapy
Progress is the Journal of the Phillips Graduate Institute containing student professional papers.

The Research Forum on Children, Families, and the New Federalism
The Research Forum encourages collaborative research and informed policy on welfare reform and child well-being.

Collaboration
Department of Health, Human Services and Public Policy
This site gives an overview of the philosophy, projects and educational opportunities of the Department of Health and Human Services and Public Policy, a program at California State University Monterey Bay for the study of collaborative approaches to heath and human services delivery.

Roundtable on Community Change
One of the Aspen Institute's Policy Programs, the Roundtable is a forum to discuss lessons learned and problems faced by those involved in comprehensive community initiatives across the nation.
The site includes access to publications, a community building resource exchange, and links to related sites.

Federal Government Resources
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
A government-wide compendium of federal programs, projects, services, and activities that provide assistance or benefits to the American public. It contains financial and nonfinancial assistance programs administered by departments and establishments of the federal government.

Federal Register Online
This site offers detailed search and full-text retrieval of the Federal Register.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
This definitive health and human services site includes online press releases, fact sheets, speeches, and congessional testimony. This site also sponsors a policy forum that includes journal and opinion articles by HHS officials concerning current topics.

Foundations
Annie E. Casey Foundation
" A private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States." This site offers access to current AEC news, publications, and current initiatives.

David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Founded by one of the cofounders of the Hewlett Packard Corporation, this foundation has a Center for the Future of Children program that is particularly interesting for those involved with children and family planning policy.

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
" Seeking to improve conditions and opportunities for people who live in poor and disadvantaged communities." Through its grantmaking, the Foundation assists nonprofit organizations and public agencies committed to advancing practices and policies that better the lives of children and families. This site offers access to EMCF publications, grant information, application procedures, and general programs information.

Ford Foundation
Areas of interest on the Ford Foundation site include: Asset Building and Community Development, and Education.

Johnson Foundation at Wingspread
The Johnson Foundation cosponsors conferences on issues of public interest at Wingspread, the educational conference center designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. They do not make grants. They provide a safe place for new ideas and discussion about sustainable communities.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
" The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, based in Princeton, N.J., is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care. It became a national institution in 1972 with receipt of a bequest from the industrialist whose name it bears, and has since made more than $2 billion in grants."

W.K. Kellog Foundation
This Web site offers access to the Kellog Foundation's Online Journal, their annual report, as well as information concerning grant opportunities.

Full-Text Resources
Child Welfare Review
This electronic journal focusing on the well-being of children is an excellent place for locating articles relating to the following subject areas: child abuse, foster care and adoption, welfare reform and children, child poverty and inequality, child advocacy, and values and children.

The Future of Children
This popular and well-respected publication is available online in Acrobat format.

General Accounting Office
The GAO site provides full-text access to their publications, such as "Reports and Testimony." The search interface allows for broad subject or more specific title searches.

Policy and Practice
Abstracts are available of articles in Policy and Practice (formerly Public Welfare) a publication of the American Public Human Services Association.

Shelterforce Online
This is a publication of the National Housing Initiative. Full-text resources from the Urban Institute
The Urban Institute provides full-texts of its periodicals and policy briefs.

List of Sociology Journals from Yahoo | List of Social Work Journals from Yahoo
This provides a select listing of journals available electronically, although access may be limited to Tables of Contents or abstracts.

Funding Resources
Federal Register Digest Service - http://www.federalregisterdigest.com/

How Can We Use The Internet for Fundraising? http://www.nonprofit-info.org/misc/981027em.html

Mankato State University Grants Information - http://www.mnsu.edu/ruralmn/pages/Research/smallgrants03.html

US Department of Education - Grants & Contracts - http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocfo/gcsindex.html

Welcome to the Foundation Center - http://fdncenter.org/

Grants and Funding
Higher Education Network of Research Information
UNO Office of Research and Sponsored Programs directs this site, which offers biweekly information on grants and funding application assistance, as well as a guide to locating funding sources on the Web.

Health Care
Healthy People 2010
This site offers resources on this national health promotion and disease prevention initiative, as well as links to related sites.

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (NCEMCH)
The NCEMCH is a research center of Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute that offers comprehensive information on maternal and child health.

National Center for Health Statistics Infant and Child Health
This site contains data on breastfeeding, infant mortality, low birthweight, and prenatal care.

National Committee for Quality Assurance
This independent, not-for-profit organization is dedicated to assessing and reporting on the quality of managed care plans, including health maintenance organizations.

Mental Health
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
This site specializes in mental health and disability issues, and is a good source for information regarding changes in SSI.

Internet Mental Health
This is an informative and well organized behavioral health site.

Mental Health InfoSource
This site offers information on conferences and health care professionals.

Mental Health Net
Comprehensive information on mental health is offered, featuring over 4,200 individual resources.

National Mental Health Association
The NMHA is dedicated to improving the mental health of all individuals and achieving victory over mental illnesses.

Multicultural Issues
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement & Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA), the NCELA provides technical assistance, databases, and an online library of resources relating to the effective education of linguistically and culturally diverse learners in the United States.

National Council of La Raza
The site of this private nonprofit organization established "to reduce poverty and discrimination , and to improve life opportunities for Hispanic Americans" gives an overview of the Council's mission, policy and programs, and includes an extensive catalog of publications on topics affecting Hispanic Americans.

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
This national network offers resources and timely alerts on immigrant rights and related issues.

Public Health Internet Resources
Health Policy Coach - http://www.healthpolicycoach.org

American Public Health Association - http://www.apha.org/

Association of Schools of Public Health - http://www.asph.org/

Biosciences resources - http://mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks.html

CA Center for Health Improvement - http://www.centerforhealthimprovement.org/

CA Dept of Health Services - http://www.dhs.ca.gov/

CA HealthLine -http://www.californiahealthline.org/

CDC - Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention Home Page - http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/dhap.htm

Children, youth and family resources - http://www.cyfc.umn.edu/

Community Preventive Services - http://www.thecommunityguide.org/

Community of Science - http://www.cos.com/

Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource - http://cedr.lbl.gov/index.html

Data resources - http://www.abag.ca.gov/abag/overview/datacenter/popdemo/datamine.html

Food and Nutrition Information Center - http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/

Guide to NIH HIV/AIDS Information Services - http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/aids/

Health education professional resources - http://www.nyu.edu/education/hepr/

Health information database - http://chid.nih.gov/

Health A to Z search engine - http://www.healthatoz.com/

Health science journals - http://www.mco.edu/lib/instr/libinsta.html

Healthy People 2000 Objectives - http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/hp2000/

Index Medicus - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html

InnoNet, Inovation Network Inc. - http://innonet.org

Lexis-Nexis (news, health topics, legal research): - http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe

Medical subject headings (MeSH standard keywords) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html

Melvyl (Medline, journal & book databases) - http://www.melvyl.ucop.edu/

Minority health resources - http://www.minority.unc.edu/

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/

Newspaper links (>3,600 online newspapers) - http://www.newslink.org/news.html

National Library of Medicine (Medline, MeSH) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

Nutrition resources - http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/

Statistics resources - http://www.stat.ufl.edu/vlib/statistics.html

UC Data Archive and Technical Assistance (health data sets) - http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/

UC faculty and staff locator (all campuses) - http://directory.ucsf.edu/people_search.jsp

UC Special Research Programs (funding opportunities) - http://www.ucop.edu/srphome/

UCB Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects - http://cphs.berkeley.edu:7006/

UCB Public Health Library - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/

UCB School of Public Health - http://sph.berkeley.edu:7047/

UCB Workstation Support Services (software, technical assistance) - http://tuna2.berkeley.edu/

Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals - http://jama.ama-assn.org/

US Agency for Health Care Policy and Research - http://www.ahcpr.gov/

US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/atsdrhome.html

US Census Bureau - http://www.census.gov/

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - http://www.cdc.gov/

US Dept of Health and Human Services (DHHS) - http://www.os.dhhs.gov/

US Food and Drug Administration - http://www.fda.gov/

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - http://www.cms.hhs.gov/

US Minority Health Resource Center - http://www.omhrc.gov/

US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/home.html

US National Center for Health Statistics - http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/default.html

US National Institutes of Health (NIH) - http://www.nih.gov/about/

US NIH guide for grants & contracts (funding opportunities) - http://www.nih.gov/grants/guide/

US Office on Smoking and Health - http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/

US Public Health Service application forms (PHS 398, 2590) - http://www.csr.nih.gov/review/phsapp.asp

US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - http://www.samhsa.gov/

Women's health resources - http://www.nytimes.com/specials/women/whome/resources.html

World Health Organization - http://www.who.int/en

The WWW Virtual Library Public Health - http://sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au/sphcm.nsf/website/forstudents.resources.ldb

Research Tools and Databases
The Idealist Home Page - http://www.idealist.org

Library of Congress Catalog
Search the Library of Congress Catalog. Holdings include records for over 4 million books, 263,000 motion pictures, 200,000 sound recordings and scores, 150,000 maps, and 4,300 computer files.

The Research Forum on Children, Families, and the New Federalism
The Research Forum encourages collaborative research and informed policy on welfare reform and child well-being. This site features an online database of summaries of large- and small-scale research projects.

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, the U.S. Congressional Library offers this online database of legislative information.

Social Work
The Council on Social Work Education - http://www.cswe.org/

National Association of Social Workers (national office) --http://www.naswdc.org/

The American Humane Association -- http://www.americanhumane.org/

American Public Human Services Association -- http://www.aphsa.org
This site offers detailed information about the APHSA and the services they provide. Also, the site offers access to online abstracts of Policy and Practice and W-Memo.

Child Welfare League of America -- http://www.cwla.org


Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
The University of Colorado's center offers information and resources on violence prevention.


Justice Information Center
This site offers a wealth of information on community prevention programs, drug treatment and juvenile justice.

Moving Ideas Network
This site provides some of its own information relating to social policy and numerous links relating to welfare, children and families, education, and tax policy.


Pavnet Online: Partnerships Against Violence
This federal government interagency resource was established to provide information about violence prevention, and describes over 500 programs.

Social Work Access Network (SWAN)
A loosely-organized interest group composed of caseworkers, counselors, therapists, students, administrators, and professors in the social work fields, SWAN is dedicated to furthering professional connectivity and the overall effectiveness of social work through the advantages provided by computer networking. This site offers numerous links to social work resources on the Web.

Social Work Departments in the U.S.
Princeton University's Web site includes this list of social work departments across the country.

The Urban Institute
The Urban Institute is a nonprofit research organization. The staff investigate the social and economic problems confronting the U.S. and government policies, and public and private programs designed to alleviate them. Included in their research are issues concerning children and families and welfare.

Substance Abuse
Join Together: Online
This comprehensive Robert Wood Johnson Foundation site is directed at communities dealing with the prevention and treatment of substance abuse.

Training
Interactive Technologies Group
ITG provides training and consulting services, as well as custom-designed interactive multimedia training products.

Welfare Reform
California Welfare Information Clearinghouse - http://www.financeprojectinfo.org/cwic/index.asp

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
This site includes policy papers and analysis on children and family issues, especially regarding welfare reform.

Center for Law and Social Policy
This site is run by a private, nonprofit organization that does research and analysis on welfare reform and welfare to work.

The Research Forum on Children, Families, and the New Federalism
The Research Forum encourages collaborative research and informed policy on welfare reform and child well-being.

Welfare Information Network
This clearinghouse provides information, policy analysis and technical assistance concerning welfare reform.

Welfare-to-Work
This is the U.S. Department of Labor's official Web site concerning welfare to work.

Welfare Watch
This site provides media monitoring, including articles from around the country, a government policy database, and archives where visitors can search by either newspaper and state or author and date.