Includes press releases, organizational information, fact sheets on ACF programs, and links to other related federal government sites.

Information on federal child welfare laws, state child abuse laws, adoption laws, and working with the courts in child protection.

This national advocacy organization provides numerous resources on policy and practice in child protective services.

Current news, policy information, publications, upcoming conferences, a webboard, and links to similar sites.

Sources of data on children and children's programs, lists current reports on children, and provides links to census demographic data.

Information and publications on economic security of low-income families with children and access to our civil justice system.

Research focused on children, youth and families. Also comprehensive data on how welfare reform affects children.

Lists services, advocacy information, and information on the nation's oldest and largest membership-based child welfare organization.

Information and resources on children, youth, parents, families, communities, and evaluation. Includes a chat room.

Contains information on federal initiatives in foster care and adoption and statistics, child abuse and neglect, and other programs.

Current information on federal policy initiatives. Particular attention to the needs of the poor, minority children, and those with disabilities.

Describes the institute's research on a broad range of issues on the connections between work and family.

An educationally focused website for parents, with resources, and on-line community, and links to other sites.

Information on current programs, links to similar sites, and information on risk factors leading to family violence and neglect.

Describes the organization, provides links to demonstration programs, and sources of information and support.

Provides current, reliable information on research, practice, policy, and programs related to fathers in families.

Offers information, training, and technical assistance to nonprofit agencies. Provides bulletins and summaries of recent federal policy.

Covers welfare reform, domestic violence, reproduction, education, & issues that impact women. Also has an on-line forum for discussion.

Includes a table of contents for the journal, abstracts, links to related sites, and a book list.

Links and resources on minority males, females, drugs, gangs, mentoring, general juvenile justice issues, & grants for juvenile justice.

Access to data from the annual measures of educational, social, economic, and physical well-being of children.

Database provides information on legislation, congressional record, committee information, public laws, session calendars, and other links.

NASW's Michigan website on programs, legislation, job openings, publications, social work links, and information about NASW.

National social work site including social work publications, services, resources, news, information, and information about NASW.

Database to search the Code of Federal Regulations by subject or title. Includes related documents and links.

Includes information for parents, teenagers, advocates, and scholars on preventing teen pregnancy.

Provides statistics about children, along with information on how welfare reform affects children.

Includes child photos and other child search services and educational materials to prevent child abduction.

Child care information regarding states, territories, tribes, policymakers, parents, programs, organizations, and providers.

Resources and links for professionals seeking information on prevention, identification and treatment of child abuse & neglect.

Numerous resources for advocates, including information packets, publications of statistics and trends, and lists of local chapters.

Daily update of news in juvenile justice, NCJFCJ policies, publications and information on a broad range of juvenile and family issues.

The central coordinating point for a network of family-preservation staff and programs.

Information on becoming a foster parent, and addresses information on children, newborn through adolescence, as it relates to fostering.

Contains information on community development, public policy, and information exchange on child welfare services.

Access to NICHD publications, focusing on research, research training, and information on prenatal, maternal, child and family health.

An Internet source of over 1,000 publications and resources related to child care. Also offers a e-mail listserv and newsletter.

Offers resources from ERIC clearinghouse and provides information on parenting and urban/minority families.

Focuses on permanency planning, kinship foster care, concurrent planning, family group decision making, and HIV/AIDS.

Includes lists of materials available, bibliographies, and The Prevention Report.

Provides a cyber-community for indigenous peoples, with an extensive search capacity and links to other sites.

Facts on juvenile justice, available grants, program information, publications, and event information.

Contains parenting information on a wide range of subjects, an extensive search facility, and numerous chat rooms.

Site includes headlines in the news, agency information, links to related sites, and a search engine on health & human service topics.

General Accounting Office reports, other publications, and information about the GAO. Also includes a search engine for the site.

Information about the United States courts, publications, directories, news, links and searches.

Offers information on all aspects of welfare reform, extensive research on families & children, and state databases with welfare reform efforts.

Influence Social Policy

Influencing State Policy (ISP) assists social work faculty and students in learning to effectively influence the formation, implementation, and evaluation of state - level policy and legislation.

www.statepolicy.org