Social Work Guide

The mission of the ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center is to assist and promote the development of quality respite and crisis care programs in the United States; to help families locate respite and crisis care services in their communities; and to serve as a strong voice for respite in all forums.

Casey Family Programs is the nation’s largest operating foundation focused entirely on foster care and improving the child welfare system

From the Brookings Institute, it studies policies that affect the well-being of America's children and their parents, especially children in less advantaged families.

Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at all stages of development.

This website contains UNICEF’s statistical information, including data used in UNICEF’s flagship publications, The State of the World’s Children and Progress for Children. Also here are technical resources for conducting UNICEF-supported Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), which are a major source of global development data.

The Child Welfare Information Gateway provides information, resources, and tools on topics including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, out-of-home care, adoption, and more for professionals and the general public.

Established in 1996, The National Alliance for Caregiving is a non-profit coalition of national organizations focusing on issues of family caregiving.

The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is one of the nation’s leading public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of America’s low-income families and children. NCCP uses research to inform policy and practice with the goal of ensuring positive outcomes for the next generation.

NCADV works to eliminate domestic violence, empower battered women and children, promote and unify direct service programs, alert and educate the public, promote partnerships, and more.

The vision of NCADD is to share the joy and knowledge of recovery, to break down barriers of ignorance, stigma and discrimination, and to encourage individuals, families, companies and communities to seek help.

The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) promotes scholarly exchange among researchers in the child maltreatment field. NDACAN acquires microdata from leading researchers and national data collection efforts and makes these datasets available to the research community for secondary analysis.

Independent, non-partisan public opinion research organization that studies attitudes toward politics, the press and public policy issues.

from the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Collection of international resources on the topics of mental health, substance abuse, disability, general health, human rights, and development.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is a federal agency funding state, territory, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families. This link will take you to the website of their Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation.

Measures labor & market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy.

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."

The Florida Department of Health, through its Division of Medical Quality Assurance (MQA), determines whether health care practitioners meet minimum licensure requirements.

The CDC's FastStats site provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance, organized alphabetically.

The mission of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is to provide statistical information that will guide actions and policies to improve the health of the American people. As the Nation's principal health statistics agency, NCHS leads the way with accurate, relevant, and timely data.

The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) is a searchable online registry of more than 240 interventions supporting mental health promotion, substance abuse prevention, and mental health and substance abuse treatment. The purpose is to connect members of the public to intervention developers.

From the National Institute of Mental Health, this page describes statistics about mental disorders.

Most comprehensive demographic survey in the nation.