Internet Resources Related to Children and Family Services and Child Welfare

Children's Advocacy Organization

• Action Alliance for Children: http://www.4children.org
• American Public Human Services Association: http://www.aphsa.org
• Children Now: http://www.childrennow.org
• Children's Defense Fund: http://www.childrensdefense.org
• Child Welfare League of America: http://www.cwla.org
• National Center for Children in Poverty: http://www.nccp.org
• Research Forum on Children, Families, and the New Federalism: http://www.researchforum.org
• Urban Institute: http://www.urban.org

Child Care

• Administration for Children and Families (ACF)—Child Care Bureau: http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ccb
• Administration for Children and Families—National Child Care Information Center: http://nccic.org
• Child Care Aware (childcare resources): http://www.childcareaware.org
• Families and Work Institute: http://www.familiesandwork.org
• Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (high-quality, objective research that supports decisions about our nation's most pressing social policy problems): http://www.mathematica-mpr.com
• National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies: http://www.naccrra.net
• National Institute on Out-of-School Time: http://www.niost.org
• National After School Association: http://www.naaweb.org
• The Resource Center for Family Focused Practice: http://www.humanservices.ucdavis.edu/resource
• Zero to Three (the nation's leading resource on the first three years of life): http://www.zerotothree.org

Child Trauma

• Aboutourkids.org (child and adolescent mental health and parenting issues): http://www.aboutourkids.org
• The ChildTrauma Academy (articles on child trauma and the effects of violence on children): http://www.childtrauma.org
• Ricky Greenwald's Child Trauma Home Page: http://www.childtrauma.com

Databases

• Child Trends (research and data to inform decision-making that effects children): http://www.childtrends.org
• Child Welfare Information Gateway: http://www.childwelfare.gov
• Child Welfare Services (CWS/CMS) Reports: http://cssr.berkeley.edu/CWSCMSreports/
• National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect: http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu
• Thomas (federal legislative information): http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas2.html
• U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov

Federal Child Welfare

• Administration for Children and Families: http://www.acf.dhhs.gov
• Administration for Children and Families: Child Welfare Reviews, Promising Approaches: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/cwrp/promise/index.htm
• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: http://www.aacap.org
• Forum on Child and Family Statistics—reports of the Federal Interagency: http://www.childstats.gov
• National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/default.htm
• The National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities: http://www.nichcy.org
• National Institute of Child Health & Human Development: http://www.nichd.nih.gov
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): http://www.nida.nih.gov
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): http://www.nimh.nih.gov
• Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health: http://rtckids.fmhi.usf.edu
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: http://www.os.dhhs.gov
• U.S. Government Printing Office: http://www.access.gpo.gov

State Child Welfare

• Bill information (search for bills in the California State Legislature): http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html
• California Department of Child Support Services: http://www.childsup.cahwnet.gov
• California Department of Social Services (CDSS): http://www.dss.cahwnet.gov
• California Health and Human Services: http://www.chhs.ca.gov
• California Law: Welfare and Institutions Code: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/calawquery?codesection=wic
• Children and Family Services Division, CDSS: http://www.childsworld.ca.gov
• Child Welfare Services Stakeholder Group, CDSS: http://www.dss.cahwnet.gov/cdssweb/ChildWelfa_285.htm
• The Federal Child and Family Services Review Project, CDSS: http://www.dss.cahwnet.gov/cfsr
• Foster Care Ombudsman Program, CDSS: http://www.fosteryouthhelp.ca.gov
• Little Hoover Commission: http://www.lhc.ca.gov/lhc.html
• Research and Development Division, CDSS (annual reports, etc.): http://www.dss.cahwnet.gov/research/default.htm

Other Child Welfare Training Academies

• Bay Area Academy: http://www.sfsu.edu/~bayacad/
• California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC) (the California Social Work Education Center at the University of California, Berkeley): http://calswec.berkeley.edu
• Central California Training Academy (the Central Regional Training Academy administered by California State University, Fresno): http://www.centralacademy.org
• Inter-University Consortium (California State Universities at Long Beach and Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Southern California): http://iuc.sppsr.ucla.edu/iucmain/Default.htm
• Southern Region Public Child Welfare Training Academy (administered by the Public Child Welfare Training Academy at California State University, San Diego): http://pcwta.sdsu.edu

Other Related Organizations

• National Association of Social Workers: http://www.naswdc.org
• National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter: http://naswca.org