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Social Work: Websites

Scholarly Websites

Child Welfare Information Gateway: Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families by connecting child welfare, adoption and related professionals as well as concerned citizens to timely, essential information.

Child Trends: Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at every stage of development. Founded in 1979, Child Trends helps keep the nation focused on children and their needs by identifying emerging issues; evaluating important programs and policies; and providing data-driven, evidence-based guidance on policy and practice.

Statistics

American FactFinder: American FactFinder provides access to data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas. The data in American FactFinder come from several censuses and surveys.

Census Bureau: Serve as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.

FedStats - home page: Provides access to statistical information produced by the Federal Government either by agency name, by subject or by state.

Legislative

OpenCongress - Issues Area: OpenCongress is a free and open-source project of the Participatory Politics Foundation.

THOMAS Catalog of Legislation: THOMAS makes federal legislative information freely available to the public.  Users can find Bills, Resolutions, Public Laws, congressional Records, and much more.

USA.gov: A great resource to research across government departments and agencies for publications, reports, and statistics.

Evidenced Based Resources

ClinicalTrials.gov: Provides patients, family members, health care professionals, and members of the public easy access to information on clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions.

National Registry of Evidence-based Programs & Practices: A searchable online registry of mental health and substance abuse interventions that have been reviewed and rated by independent reviewers.

National Guideline Clearinghouse: NGC is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

Evidence-based Practice Resources from Social Work Policy Institute: The Evidence-Based Practice Resources section provides tools that can be used to identify EBPs, online resources that can inform the EBP process and a list of publications for further information

Social Programs That Work: This site summarizes the findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials that, in their view, have particularly important policy implications.