Social Work and Social Services Web Sites

 
 

This site is a service of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, which offers the Master of Social Work and PhD in Social Work degrees.

The Internet offers a wide variety of online resources of interest to social workers and those in the social services fields. The list below is not exhaustive; many of these sites will be jumping-off points which will lead you to other interesting, pertinent sites.

One category often crosses over into another category, so you may want to check several subject headings. You can use the Edit, Find feature of your browser to look for a particular word in this page. You can also conduct your own keyword search by using search engines.

This page is always growing and changing, so stop by often. To recommend a site for inclusion, send e-mail to the Web administrator.

DISCLAIMER: The web sites listed below are provided purely as a convenience and do not in any way imply an endorsement of any of the web sites or the contents therein.

 

Topical Index

 
 
*Note: Once you go to a particular list, click on the organization name to open a site in the current browser window; or, click the right mouse button (in Windows) and select "Open Link in New Window".



Note: Click on the organization name to open a site in the current browser window; to open in a new window, click the right mouse button (in Windows) and select "Open Link in New Window".
 

Abuse and Violence 

  • Active Non Violence Group
  • Battered Mothers Resource Fund, Inc.
  • Batterer Intervention Services Coalition
  • Britannia Agency for Nurses and Carers Ltd. (BANC) 
  • Crisis Prevention Institute Home Page (violence prevention resource center)
  • The Family Violence Prevention Fund 
  • Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
  • KIDS COUNT Report on Children and Violence 
  • Men Can Stop Rape 
  • National Sexual Violence Resource Center - a clearinghouse of information, resources and referrals about sexual violence.
  • SafetyNet Domestic Violence Resources (via Cybergrrl Webstation)
  • Sexual Assault Resources
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     Addiction

  • Addicted.com
  • Addiction, Recovery, Prevention: The High-Low Trap 
  • Addiction Research Foundation
  • The Canyon
  • Cirque Lodge
  • Gatehouse Academy
  • Intervention Treatment
  • Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Dependent Persons with Significant Others
  • Lakeview Health Systems
  • Orchid
  • Passages Malibu 
  • Projectknow
  • RehabInfo
  • Treatment for Alcoholism and Drug Addiction at Lakeview Health Systems
  • Treatment Solutions Network


  • Adoption and Foster Parenting  

  • ADOC - Adoptie Driehoek Onderzoeks Centrum
  • The American Association for Open Adoption Agencies 
  • Children's Hope International  
  • Domestic Infant Adoption 
  • Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
  • Family Village, Special Needs Adoption Resources 
  • The Foster Care and Family Services 
  • FosterParentNet
  • Foster Swap 
  • International Adoption Information 
  • International Adoption Clinic (University of Minnesota) 
  • Joint Council on International Children's Services
  • Journeys of the Heart Adoption Services 
  • Karen's Adoption Links 
  • PACT, an adoption alliance
  • Rainbow Kids  (information on International adoption)


  • ADHD/ADD

  • Attention Deficit Disorder Resources 
  • CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) 
  • Edge Foundation
  • National Resource Center on AD/HD 
  • Pendulum Resources 


  • Affirmative Action

  • Affirmative Action and Diversity Project
  • Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Homepage (via Northern Arizona University)
  • American Association for Affirmative Action
  •  AIDS/HIV

  • AEGIS
  • AIDSinfo
  • The Body  (multimedia AIDS and HIV information resource)
  • HIV InSite
  • Stop AIDS Project 


  • Alternative Medicine

  • Alternative Medicine Connection 
  • alternativemedicinereview (listing of alternative medicine sites)
  • The Alternative Medicine Homepage  (via Falk Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh)
  • Blessings Enterprises
  • holistic online
  • Midwifery Today 
  • Natural Health Care (alternative approaches to dealing with pregnancy and birth)
  • Online Birth Center 
  • Weil: Your trusted health advisor


  • Disabilities
      
  • Disabilities (topics page from the Librarians' Index to the Internet) 
  • DisabilityInfo.gov
  • Internet Special Education Resources
  • Links to Disability-Related Organizations 
  • Special Needs Network 
  • Special Needs Support Network
  • Yahoo links to listings on Disabilities 


  • Animal Therapy

  • Animal Assisted Therapy and Animal-Assisted Activities
  • The Delta Society
  • Therapy Dogs, Inc.
  • Therapy Dogs International


  • Anxiety Disorders, Panic Disorders, and Phobias

  • Center for Anxiety & Stress Treatment 
  • K12 academics 
  • National Anxiety Foundation 
  • Social Anxiety Disorder/ Social Phobia and Shyness
  • The Anxiety Panic Internet Resource (tAPir) 
  • Treatment of Panic Disorders 


  • Art Thera
    py

  • American Art Therapy Association, Inc.
  • Canadian Art Therapy Association
  • South Texas Art Therapy Association

    Autism
  • ABA Educational Resources Ltd.
  • Autism Information Center
  • Autism Society of America
  • Center for the Study of Autism (http://www.autism.org)
  • Center for the Study of Autism (http://www.autism.com)
  • Dual Diagnosis - Downs Syndrome and Autism
  • Judevine Center for Autism
  • The National Autistic Society


  • Behavior & Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

  • Behavior  (gathering place for mental health and applied behavioral science professionals)
  • National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists


    Bipolar Disorders
  • Bipolar Support Group

  • Borderline Disorder

  • BPD Central
  • Borderline Personality Disorder Sanctuary 
  • Souls Self Help Center (click on Borderline Personality in the menu on the left of the screen) 


  • Census Data/Records

  • National Archives
  • National Center for Health Statistics 
  • National Health Information Center
  • National Longitudinal Surveys Home Page
  • The Panel Study of Income Dynamics
  • Population Studies Center (via University of Michigan) 
  • State Census Data Centers
  • U.S. Census Bureau Home Page


  • Children and Youth

  • Administration for Children and Families
  • CADIP - Canadian Alliance for Development Initiatives and Projects
  • Child Care & Early Education Research Connections
  • Child Support Law Firms
  • Child Welfare Home Page
  • Child Welfare Information Gateway
  • Children's Defense Fund 
  • Children Now 
  • Children's Rights Alliance
  • The Council for Exceptional Children 
  • ECHO Treatment Center
  • The Future of Children
  • Girls with dreams
  • KidsHealth.org
  • Kinship Care Legal Research Center
  • National Center for Children in Poverty
  • National Youth Advocacy Coalition
  • The Research Forum on Children, Families, and the New Federalism
  • Washington Kids Count
  • Youth Change: The Problem-Kid Problem-Solver

    Counseling 
  • American Counseling Association
  • findCounseling

  • Crisis Intervention

  • Convening (resources for crisis intervention workers)
  • Crisis Intervention of Houston
  • Saint Louis Crisis Nursery


  • Death and Dying

  • The Internet Cremation Society
  • Violent Death Bereavement Society


  • Depression/Bipolar Disorders

  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Pendulum Pages

    Disaster Relief
  • The American Red Cross
  • Disaster Mental Health
  • Epicenter
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency


  • Dissociation

  • The International Society for the Study of Dissociation


  • Down Syndrome

  • Disability Solutions
  • Down Syndrome: Health Issues
  • Down Syndrome Research Foundation
  • Dual Diagnosis - Downs Syndrome and Autism
  • Family Village


  • Drama Therapy

  • Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide


  • Dual Diagnosis

  • Dual Diagnosis Website
  • Dual Diagnosis - Downs Syndrome and Autism


  • Eating Disorders

  • Anorexia HQ
  • Something Fishy Eating Disorders
  • Selfhelp magazine: Eating disorders

    Emotional Support
  • Inner Peace

  • Ethics

  • Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics

  • Evidence Based Practice

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  • Medline

  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing


  • Family Issues

  • Casey Family Programs
  • Families USA
  • Family Village Communty Center
  • Family Violence Prevention Fund 


  • Family Therapy

  • Family Institute of Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA)


  • Gambling

  • Gamblers and Risk Takers: What's Luck Got To Do With It?
  • Gambling Problems Resource Center
  • Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commerical Gaming


  • Gender Issues

  • The Backlash! (against negative male stereotypes)
  • Gender-Related Electronic Forums

  • Gerontology and Aging

  • A Year to Remember. . .With my Mother and Alzheimer's Disease
  • The Aging Research Translator
  • Alzheimer's Association
  • Alzheimer's Disease Online Support Group
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
  • The Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work
  • Association for Oncology Social Work
  • Center for Healthy Aging
  • Division 20 Adult Development and Aging web site
  • Institute of Gerontology GeroWeb
  • International Longevity Center-USA
  • Pathways for Aging
  • St. Louis Alzheimer's Association
  • Washington University's Alzheimer Disease Research Center
     
  • Grief

  • Center for Loss & Life Transition
  • Hospice Foundation of America
  • Hospice Patients Alliance
  • Online Grief Resources
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    Health Care and Reform

  • Families USA (consumer voice for health care)
  • HospitalWeb


  • Help Centers

  • Feed My People


  • Higher Education

  • Academe This Week (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  • Artemis Guide to Women's Studies Programs throughout the United States
  • Rennison College School of Social Work (University of Waterloo)


  • Homelessness

  • Real Change News


  • Housing and Affordable Housing

  • Affordable Housing
  • Citizens Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA)
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • HUD User
  • National Council of State Housing Agencies
  • National Housing Institute


  • Human Rights

  • The Equal Justice Network
  • OneWorld.net
  • United Nations' Scholars Workstation at Yale University (includes links to human rights, children's rights, and women's rights web sites)


  • International Social Work

  • The Association of Children's Welfare Agencies
  • CADIP - Canadian Alliance for Development Initiatives and Projects
  • Institute for Global Communications
  • InterAction
  • International Development Exchange
  • International Federation of Social Workers
  • International Institute for Sustainable Development
  • National Institute for Social Work
  • The Overseas Development Institute
  • Planet Social Work
  • United Nations Development Programme


  • Internet Directories

  • Infospace
  • Internet Health Directory
  • Lycos People search (find people, businesses, fax numbers, government information, etc.)
  • People Search
  • Superpages

  • Journals

  • Directory of open access journals (DOAJ)
  • Health and Medical Informatics Digest
  • Links to Law Journals
  • The National Psychologist


  • Latino Issues in Social Work

  • Latino Social Workers Organization


  • Learning Difficulties/Disabilities

  • Questions Often Asked About Special Education Services
  • Values Into Action

    Magazines
  • Black Parenting
  • In Motion Magazine
  • Mother Jones
  • New Age Journal Online
  • Time
  • UTNE Reader

  • Measurement and Assessment Scales

  • CAPT
  • National Quality Measures Clearinghouse
  • The SASSI Institute
  • WALMYR Publishing Company
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    Marriage, Family, and Couples

  • Family & Marriage Counseling Directory
  • National Directory of Marriage & Family Counseling
  • Smart Marriages: The Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education


  • Medicaid

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicade Services
  • The Century Foundation
  • Medicaid


  • Medical

  • American Medical Association
  • Centers for Disease Control
  • Food and Drug Administration
  • HospitalWeb
  • MedlinePlus
  • MedWeb
  • National Institutes of Health
  • World Health Organization


  • Medicare

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
  • The Century Foundation
  • Medicare.gov


  • Men's Issues

  • The Backlash!
  • Men Can Stop Rape
  • Men's Issues Page

    Mental Health
  • Center for Mental Health Services Research at Washington University
  • eMedicine Mental Health
  • findCounseling
  • Gift from Within
  • Internet links to mental health resources
  • Internet Mental Health page
  • Mental Health Infosource
  • National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
  • National Institute of Mental Health
  • People Who... (must select MADNESS link from this page; a place where users of mental health services join in dialogues towards improving community service systems)
  • Policy Information Exchange (PIE)
  • Recovery, Inc.
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

    Military/Veteran Issues
  • Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics (via Duke University - ethical issues related to the military)
  • Military Family Resources


  • Miscellaneous

  • Back to a Village
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Idealist: action without borders
  • National Organizations (via Social Work Access Network)
  • PsychWorld University
  • The Shyness Home Page
  • Social Care online
  • Working Assets Online

    Music Therapy
  • American Music Therapy Association
  • Using Music in Therapy


  • Native American Issues

  • American Indian Health
  • Buder Center for American Indian Studies at Washington University
  • Code Talk Home Page
  • Family Village Community Center
  • Indianz.com
  • Native American Rights Fund


  • Newspapers

  • abc-Canada
  • The Age (Melbourne, Australia)
  • Arizona Daily Star
  • Arkansas online
  • BDA Sun
  • The Boston Globe
  • The Boston Review
  • Chicago Sun-Times
  • China news
  • Daily Record and Sunday Mail (Scotland)
  • Detroit News
  • Electric New Paper (Singapore)
  • Financial Review (Australia)
  • Ghana Latest News
  • Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada)
  • Globes: Israel's Business Arena
  • Green Left News
  • Hartford Courant
  • Iceland Review online
  • Indianapolis Star and News
  • IOL (South Africa)
  • Irish Times
  • Lexington-Herald Leader
  • Los Angeles Times
  • Maui News Homepage (Hawaii)
  • Mercury Center (San Jose, CA)
  • National Press Club
  • News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
  • New York Times
  • North Shore News (North Vancouver, British Columbia)
  • Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia)
  • Philadelphia Daily News
  • Pilot Online (Norfolk, VA)
  • Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN)
  • Press (Christchurch, New Zealand)
  • Salt Lake Tribune
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • San Francisco Chronicle
  • San Francisco Examiner
  • The Seattle Times
  • The Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
  • Sinn Fein Online
  • StarTribunenet
  • Telegraph (United Kingdom)
  • Times/Sunday Times (London, England)
  • US news & world report
  • USA Today
  • Village Voice WorldWide (New York, NY)
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)


  • News Services and Radio web sites

  • Associated Press
  • CNN Interactive
  • C-SPAN
  • National Public Radio
  • PBS Online NewsHour
  • WorldNews


  • Not-for-Profit Resources

  • idealist.org
  • Internet Resources for Non-Profit Public Service Organizations
  • W. K. Kellog Foundation

  •  Obsessive-Compulsive disorder

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disoder
  • OCR Support
  • Parenting

  • iVillage ParentsPlace.com
  • JFCS ParentsPlace
  • Labour of Love
  • Parents P.L.A.C.E.
  • Your Social Worker


  • Pharmacology

  • Medical Sciences Bulletin (extinsive listing of information about medications of all kinds)
  • Medications (extensive listing of pyschotherapeutic medications)
  • PharmWeb
  • Pharmaceutical Information Network


  • Play Therapy

  • Association for Play Therapy
  • Boland Play Therapy
  • Canadian Play Therapy Institute
  • Texas Association for Play Therapy


  • Policy Issues

  • Administration for Children and Families
  • Almanac of Policy Issues 
  • The Brookings Institution
  • The Cato Institute
  • The Century Foundation
  • The Commonwealth Fund
  • Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Linkages (a multimedia resource for environment and development policy makers)
  • Policy Action Network
  • Policy.inc
  • Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet

  • Politics

  • Contacting the Congress
  • FedWorld Information Network
  • Influencing State Policy
  • Library of Congress
  • OMB Watch
  • Political Activism Resources
  • US House of Representatives Home Page
  • U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leadership home page
  • US Senate World Wide Web Server
  • The White House


  • Poverty-related

  • Institute for Research on Poverty
  • National Center for Children in Poverty
  • Poverty Action Lab
  • Social Watch


  • Prevention

  • Prevention Primer


  • Psychiatry

  • American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • American Psychiatric Association
  • New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute


  • Psychoanalysis

  • American Psychoanalytic Foundation


  • Psychology

  • American Psychological Association PsychNET
  • Association for Psychological Science
  • The National Psychologist


  • Psychotherapy

  • About Psychotherapy
  • Psychotherapy.net
  • Psychotherapy Networker
  • Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration
  • United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy


  • Public Health

  • Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (via Centers for Disease Control)
  • Public Health Service


  • Recreational Therapy

  • American Therapeutic Recreation Association
  • North Carolina Recreational Therapy Association
  • Therapeutic Recreation Directory


  • Refugees

  • Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
  • Forced migration online
  • Human Rights Watch
  • International Organization for Migration
  • Refugees International
  • UNHCR 


  • Research related

  • Center for Education and Drug Abuse Research
  • Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research
  • Centre for Research in Public Sector Management (University of Canberra)
  • Department of Social Policy and Social Work at Oxford University
  • Health Research & Educational Trust
  • Institute for Research on Poverty
  • Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
  • National Archives and Records Administration
  • National Center for Health Statistics
  • National Consortium on Violence Research
  • National Institutes of Health Scientific Research Resources
  • Oregon Social Learning Center
  • Research Resources for the Social Sciences
  • Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
  • Society for Prevention Research
  • Sociological Research Online


  • Schizophrenia

  • Experience of Schizophrenia
  • NARSAD 
  • Schizophrenia, a handbook for families
  • Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders
  • Schizophrenia.com
  • Schizophrenia Australia Web Site


  • Search Engines

  • Alta Vista
  • Excite
  • Healia.com
  • Highbeam Research (search magazines, maps, books, newspapers and newswires, TV and radio transcripts, pictures and more)
  • Hotbot
  • Internet Indexes and Search Engines. A list compiled by the Washington University in St. Louis Olin Library bibliographers.
  • Lycos
  • Web crawler
  • Yahoo


  • Sleep Disorders

  • Sleep Disorders Guide
  • The Sleep Medicine Home Page
  • SleepNet
  • SomnoMed.com


  • Smoking and Tobacco

  • Corporate Accountability International
  • Join Together Online
  • Stop Smoking Tips


  • Social and Economic Development

  • Center for Social Development at Washington University
  • Centre for Research in Public Sector Management (University of Canberra)
  • Civic Practices Network
  • Institute for the Study of Civic Values
  • International Institute for Sustainable Development
  • Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis (via University of Missouri System)
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operative and Development
  • PRAXIS (resources for social and economic development)
  • Social Sciences Reference
  • The Urban Institute
  • WebEc (economic development, technological changes and growth)


  • Social Work

  • California Social Work Hall of Distinction
  • Community care
  • Council on Social Work Education
  • Global Social Work
  • Informatiion for Practice
  • International Federation of Social Workers
  • Listservs for social workers
  • The New Social Worker
  • Pat McClendon's Clinical Social Work Page
  • Planet social work
  • Sober Recovery (Information about many different aspects of social work)
  • Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
  • Social Work Access Network
  • Social Work Cafe
  • Social Work portal
  • Social Work Web Resources at University of Indianapolis
  • Social Work World
  • www.socialwork.com
  • Virtual Social Work


  • Social Work Associations

  • Australian Association of Social Workers
  • Australian Institute of Welfare and Community Workers
  • British Association of Social Workers
  • Canadian Association of Social Workers
  • Clinical Social Work Federation
  • Illinois Social Work
  • Irish Association of Social Workers
  • National Association of Social Workers
  • NASW California Chapter
  • NASW Maine Chapter (the Maine Chapter offers continuing education programs)
  • NASW Missouri Chapter
  • NASW Oklahoma Chapter
  • National Institute for Social Work Home Page
  • Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care


  • Social Work Licensing, Exam and Test Preparation

  • Association for Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences
  • Association of Social Work Boards
  • Licensing Exam Preparation Services (LEAP)
  • Social Work Exam
  • Social Work Exam Review
  • Social Work Examination Services

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    Social work with Groups

  • Mutual Aid Based Group Work.com


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    Sociology

  • American Sociological Association
  • Sociological Research Online
  • Sociolog
  • SocioSite