Government Sites
U. S. Census Bureau
The U.S. Census Bureau website provides a source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.
Center for Disease Control
This website contains information and insight about health, safety, life stages, and a plethora of related topics. The CDC’s mission is "to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability."
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
This website is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
Some programs include:
- Health and social science research
- Preventing disease, including immunization services
- Medicare (health insurance for elderly and disabled Americans) and Medicaid (health insurance for low-income people)
- Health information technology
- Financial assistance and services for low-income families
- Improving maternal and infant health
- Faith-based and community initiatives
- Preventing child abuse and domestic violence
- Substance abuse treatment and prevention
- Services for older Americans, including home-delivered meals
National Institute on Drug Abuse
There are two main factors that this website focuses on; strategic support and conduct of research across a broad range of disciplines and ensuring the rapid and effective dissemination and use of the results of that research to significantly improve prevention, treatment and policy as it relates to drug abuse and addiction.
U.S. Department of Education
This website collects data on America's schools and disseminating research, as well as focus national attention on key educational issues.
USA.gov
Official portal to the U.S. Government sites.
Office of Extramural Research
This website provides useful information about policies, funding opportunities, and the application process for research grants.
Social Work Organizations
National Association of Social Workers
This website is a useful tool for any person in the social work profession.
Society for Social Work Research
The Society for Social Work and Research is a non-profit (Federal ID Number 13-3768131), professional society incorporated in the State of New York in 1993. The Society is devoted to the involvement of social workers, other social work faculty, and social work students in research and to promotion of human welfare through research and research applications.
School Social Work Association of America
Some goals of the website are to strengthen the profession of school social work by maintaining and increasing the number of school social workers across the nation, and to offer opportunities for ongoing professional development.
Midwest School Social Work Council
The Midwest School Social Work Council website provides support for the eleven member states and the professional development of the social work practice.
International Federation of Social Workers
The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) is a global organization striving for social justice, human rights and social development through the development of social work, best practices and international cooperation between social workers and their professional organizations.
The Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work
The Association for Gerontology in Social Work (AGESW) provides leadership in the areas of gerontological social work education, research, and policy, and fosters cooperation, collegiality, and an exchange of ideas among social work educators, researchers, and students committed to or interested in gerontology.
Social Work Leadership Institute
The goals of the institute are to cultivate leaders in the field of social work to extend their responses beyond the individual level to the needs of the population at large; and to establish itself as a central agent in cultivating and enhancing multidisciplinary partnerships.
Centers & Institutions
National Institutes of Health
This website provides links to many organizations for agencies working to achieve best practice in child welfare.
Casey Family Programs
Casey Family Programs’ website provides information on how to administer, improve and ultimately to prevent the need for foster care.
National Sexual Violence Resource Center
This website provides information and resources regarding all aspects of sexual violence.
The Council of State Governments
This website helps states increase efficiency by identifying the best new and creative approaches to significant state problems and policies.
North American Resource Center for Child Welfare
It is the Center for Child Welfare Policy's goal to support bold ideas in the field of child welfare; to promote the critical appraisal of these ideas through good science and open debate; to support the epistemological position that a collective and objective knowledge base can be identified and sustained; to support courageous publication of meritorious work that exemplifies these principles; and to support the moral position that it is our responsibility to do so.
The Urban Institute
Part of the Urban Institutes Mission is to promote sound social policy and public debate on national priorities. The institute also collects and analyzes data, conducts policy research, and evaluates programs and services.
Human Services Research Institute
This website helps to expand the use of research and evaluation to guide policy and practice. The website also provides tools that can assist human service organizations and systems to develop support systems for children, adults, and families.
American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work
The American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work (ABE) is the national standard-setting organization for the profession of Clinical Social Work. ABE sets and promotes national practice standards, publishes position statements, maintains an online directory of certificants, and issues credentials for advanced clinical generalists (BCD), clinical supervisors, children/families practitioners, and psychoanalysts.
Guttmacher Institute
This website provides a wide range of resources on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health.
Social Work Topics
Society for Social Work Leadership in Healthcare
This websites core values are: Advocacy, stewardship, ethics, creativity, and inclusiveness.
HandsNet
Hands Net has combined current human services and community development information important to low-income communities and communities of color. Hands Net seeks to encourage comprehensive thinking for improving the lives of people living in these communities.
The vision of IASWR is to lead the profession in the development, dissemination and utilization of scientific knowledge in social work.
Partnerships to Promote Evidence-Based Practice
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a process in which the practitioner combines well-researched interventions with clinical experience and ethics, and client preferences and culture to guide and inform the delivery of treatments and services. The practitioner, researcher and client must work together in order to identify what works, for whom and under what conditions. This approach ensures that the treatments and services, when used as intended, will have the most effective outcomes as demonstrated by the research. It will also ensure that programs with proven success will be more widely disseminated and will benefit a greater number of people.
Resources for Research
IASWR has compiled a list of data sources that provide data and information of relevance to social work researchers. Topics covered include aging, child welfare, demographics, health, criminal justice and international issues.
Funding Opportunities
A broad range of Federal Data Sources is offered and information about how to access them. There is also guidance on writing and submitting research grants across many fields of social work practice and links to numerous federal agencies and foundations.
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