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Child Welfare
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Administration for Children and Families (ACF) 
 This agency "within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is responsible for federal programs which promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities." The site provides links to the more than a dozen ACF programs and services. There are also reports to Congress and current press releases concerning child welfare. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ Topics: Social Issues Last updated Sep 4, 2009 Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
This organization's website provides fact sheets, policy briefs, and other publications on issues such as child welfare, child care and early childhood education, prisoner re-entry, welfare policy, and civil legal assistance. Also includes audio and transcripts of conferences. Archived documents go back to 1996. CLASP is a national nonprofit organization that works to improve the lives of low-income people. http://www.clasp.org Topics: Families, Poverty Last updated Nov 1, 2006 Child Welfare Information Gateway
Information for "professionals working in child abuse prevention and in family support, foster care, and other interrelated fields with information and resources." Topics include child abuse and neglect, out-of-home care, adoption, and family-centered practice. Includes statistics, links to national organizations, a national adoption directory, and more. Some material available in Spanish. A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.childwelfare.gov Topics: Families, Social Issues Last updated Aug 15, 2006 Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)
"CWLA is an association of nearly 800 public and private nonprofit agencies that assist more than 3.5 million abused and neglected children and their families." Its website features a description of initiatives and advocacy efforts, the National Data Analysis System (a comprehensive collection of child welfare and related data for the U.S.), reports, annotated bibliographies, and more. http://www.cwla.org/ Topics: Families Last updated Sep 19, 2007 Children of Prisoners Library (CPL)
"More than one in forty children in the United States has a parent in prison. ... [This site] provides free information sheets designed for people serving children of prisoners and their caregivers." Features pamphlets on topics such as visiting mom or dad, jail and prison procedures, common stress points, and tips for fostering trust and safety. Also includes a glossary and links to related material. From the Family and Corrections Network. http://www.fcnetwork.org/cpl/cplindex.html Topics: Crime, Families Last updated Sep 11, 2007 Children's Research Center (CRC)
This site offers reports from this center "established to help federal, state, and local child welfare agencies reduce child abuse and neglect by developing case management systems and conducting research that improves service delivery to children and families." Some of the publication topics include charter schools, foster care in specific states, and risk assessment in child protective services. CRC "is a division of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD)." http://www.nccd-crc.org/crc/c_index_main.html Topics: Families, Social Issues Last updated Feb 7, 2007 Convention on the Rights of the Child
Background about the Convention on the Rights of the Child, "the first legally binding international instrument to incorporate the full range of human rights -- civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights" for children. Includes text of the convention in several languages, information on the development of the document and optional protocols (on armed conflict and prostitution and pornography), material on ratification or accession, a FAQ, and related material. From UNICEF. http://www.unicef.org/crc/ Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Social Issues Last updated May 11, 2009 Crimes Against Children Research Center (CCRC)
This mission of this organization, concerned with children and adolescents from birth through age 17, is to "combat crimes against children by providing research and statistics to the public, policy makers, law enforcement, and child welfare practitioners." Website resources include facts sheets and publications on topics such as childhood sexual abuse, child maltreatment fatalities, and missing children. Also includes links to related sites. From the University of New Hampshire. http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/ Topics: Social Issues Last updated Apr 19, 2007 Failure to Protect
Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) program that "goes behind the scenes of [Maine's] child welfare system." The two-part series covers the death of a five-year-old girl while in foster care and follows caseworkers as they "confront the heartwrenching decision of whether or not to remove children from their homes." Includes analysis, child welfare statistics, interviews, program transcript, and related resources. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/fostercare/ Topics: Law by Subject, Social Issues Last updated Apr 28, 2004 Future of Children
This journal summarizes current research and policy issues relating to the well-being of children. "Each journal issue examines a single topic of importance to children from a multidisciplinary perspective." Includes archive all of all issues dating back to 1991. Searchable. Also contains browsable "facts and statistics" included in journal articles. http://www.futureofchildren.org/ Topics: Families, Social Issues Last updated Jun 20, 2004 Kids Count
National, state, and county-level statistics on the educational, economic, social, and physical well-being of children in the U.S. "Offers several interactive online databases that allow visitors to create free, customized data reports on-the-fly. The report choices vary by system, but include the ability to generate custom profiles, line graphs, maps, and rankings, and download raw data." Includes state and national profiles, state rankings, census data, and city and rural conditions. From the Annie E. Casey Foundation. http://www.aecf.org/MajorInitiatives/KIDSCOUNT.aspx Topics: Social Issues, Statistics Last updated Apr 5, 2007 Kids Risk
Professor Kimberly Thompson of the Harvard School of Public Health "launched the Kids Risk Project to empower kids, parents, and policy makers to improve children's lives by focusing on the risks that children face and on finding cost-effective strategies to better manage these risks." The site features information on subjects ranging from seat belts to smoking and includes articles, games, research topics, and related links. Some portions still under development. http://www.kidsrisk.harvard.edu/ Topics: Social Issues Last updated Sep 25, 2003 National Abandoned Infants Assistance (AIA) Resource Center
This site contains publications on topics such as substance-exposed newborns, family planning, and kinship foster care. Also features issues of the Source newsletter. From an organization with a mission "to enhance the quality of social and health services delivered to children who are abandoned or at-risk of abandonment due to the presence of drugs and/or HIV in the family." The AIA Resource Center is located at the University of California, Berkeley. http://aia.berkeley.edu Topics: Families Last updated Sep 20, 2006 Prevent Child Abuse America
This organization works toward "building awareness, providing education and inspiring hope to everyone involved in the effort to prevent the abuse and neglect of our nation's children." Its website features a description of advocacy efforts, research publications (such as fact sheets and reports), materials for Child Abuse Prevention Month (April), and prevention tips. Also includes event listings and links to local chapters. Access to some material requires free registration. http://www.preventchildabuse.org Topics: Families Last updated Mar 19, 2007 Representing Children Worldwide
"A research project which compiles information and resources on how children's voices are heard in child protective proceedings around the country and around the world in the year 2005." Includes a summary of the practices of the 194 signatories to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child (UNCRC), background information on the jurisdiction's child protective practices, and related links. From Yale Law School. http://www.law.yale.edu/rcw/ Topics: Consumer Research & Advocacy, Social Issues Last updated May 13, 2009 Save the Children USA
The website for this philanthropic organization supporting international relief, education, and development efforts, features a description of programs in the U.S. and throughout the world. Includes video clips and reports about emergency projects such as hunger relief in Africa, rebuilding after the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, and activities in Iraq (which ended on March 1, 2006); and about development projects, such as fighting HIV/AIDS and promoting education. http://www.savethechildren.org Topics: Charity & Nonprofit Resources, Families Last updated May 16, 2006 State of the World's Children
"Each year, UNICEF's flagship publication, 'The State of the World's Children,' closely examines a key issue affecting children. The report includes supporting data and statistics and is available in French and Spanish language versions." The site features reports back 1996, with themes such as excluded and invisible children (2006), education and development (2004), nutrition (1998), and children at war (1996). Also find photo galleries. From the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). http://www.unicef.org/sowc/ Topics: Social Issues, Statistics Last updated Apr 6, 2006 Working With Children With Parents in Prison
Tips from 2002 for those who work with children who have incarcerated parents. Topics include child reactions to parental incarceration, prison visitation basics, reunifying families after parental incarceration, and understanding and supporting foster children with incarcerated parents. A few of the links to related sites are broken. From the North Carolina Division of Social Services and the Family and Children's Resource Program of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Social Work. http://www.practicenotes.org/vol7_no1.htm Topics: Crime, Families Last updated Sep 17, 2009 |
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