Social Work
Other Useful Resources

• Affordable Housing--detailed information on government housing programs and subsidies.
• Child Care  -- "providing unbiased and unparalleled research that bridges the gap between American leaders and what the public really thinks about issues ranging from education to foreign policy to immigration to religion and civility in American life."
• Criminal Justice Resources
• Community Planning -- this nice site provides a glossary and covers a selection of methods for helping people get involved in physical planning and design. It may be of interest to those who work with people in their environment and how to better that environment.
• Embassies in Washington DC -- includes links to information about the business culture in each country
• FirstGov--a search engine that searches ONLY in government databases. Outstanding for tracing legislation, court decisions and regulations.
• Government Sources
• Help Starts Here -- from the NASW, it offers individuals and families with timely information about problems they face every day and offers resources to help them cope.
• HIV-AIDS Information Center--from the American Medical Association, the latest research, news updates, clinical guidelines, patient education materials, prevention fact sheets and more.
• How to Use Social Work Abstracts -- a guide to using the Social Work Abstracts electronic database (available on the "Databases" page).  The database requires a password for access. This guide is in .pdf format, click here for a free download of Adobe Acrobat reader.
• Iowa Census Data Sets--The new figures for the 2000 census presented by the State Library of Iowa.
• Labor Statistics
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies--courtesy of UCLA's academic program.
• Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
• People with a History--- an online guide to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual history, ancient to modern with full-text documents.
• Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: Social Welfare -- This nonpartisan organization provides information (news, backgrounders, polls and surveys), but takes no position on "issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs."
• the Social History Station---from Dan Huff at Boise State University School of Social Work. A wonderful site with biographies, essays, pictures and more. Best viewed with Explorer 4.0 or higher
• Sociology of Death and Dying-- extensive text files and statistical files, on topics like how we die, genocide, hospices, death and the military (including an extensive file on effects of radiation during the cold war). Also includes the "Death Clock".
• Statistics on the Aging Population -- includes the Profile of Older Americans and much more
• Violence Prevention -- from the American Medical Association, includes publications and links