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Using the Web in Social Work
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Website and Resource Bibliography:


 
Why Bother?
NASW Code Online http://www.socialworkers.org
Center for Study of Ethics http://www.iit.edu/departments/csep/
Sawnet/South Asian Women http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/
World Church of the Creator http://www.creator.org
Nursing Home Abuse Info. Center http://www.nursinghomeabuseinfocenter.com/
Inst. for Research on Poverty http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/
SAVI GIS http://www.savi.org
Cyberpsych http://www.psnw.com/~cyberpsych/cy01000.htm
National Latino Childrens' Institute http://www.nlci.org/common/index2.htm
LEAD http://iussw.iupui.edu/advocacy/links.htm
54 Ways to Help the Homeless http://www.tinman.org/sue/articles/54WaysYouCanHelpTheHomeless.html
National Coalition for the Homeless http://www.nationalhomeless.org/
Comingoutstories.com http://www.comingoutstories.com/
Bill Trochim's Center for Research http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/index.html
Jewish Board of Family and children's Services http://www.jbfcs.org
Central Indiana Human Services Database (Rainbow Book) http://www.imcpl.lib.in.us/cgi-bin/irntop.pl
 
Roles for Social Workers:
Falling Though the Net http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/digitaldivide/
Evaluating Results: Cancer http://www.drbrodie.com
Social Justice: Vote Smart http://www.vote-smart.org

Best Practices http://socialwork.iu.edu/site/indexer/172/content.htm

Guarding our Profession: Capella http://www.capella.edu/reborn/html/schools/humanserv/social_mstr.aspx
Guarding our Profession: Canyon http://www.canyoncollege.edu/
 
Finding Websites:
Known URLs
Welfare Information Network http://www.financeprojectinfo.org/win/
 
Listed Links

"The New Social Worker" http://www.socialworker.com/websites.htm

 
MetaLists and WebRings
Marty Howard's HIV/AIDS HomePage http://www.smartlink.net/~martinjh/
Shirley's List http://kml.uindy.edu/resources/socialwork/index.html
 
Gateways and Clearninghouses

SWAN: http://www.sc.edu/swan/

Mincava: http://www.mincava.umn.edu

FirstGov: http://firstgov.gov
 
Search Engines
HotBot: http://hotbot.com
Yahoo! http://yahoo.com

AllTheWeb/FAST http://www.alltheweb.com

Google http://www.google.com

Mamma http://www.mamma.com

       Kartoo http://www.kartoo.com

World Wide Web Resources for Social Workers:
http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/wwwrsw/

C'net (Specialized engines) http://search.com

SearchEngineWatch: http://www.searchenginewatch.com

 

Evaluating Websites:
Sponsorship

The International Dyslexia Association http://interdys.org

Dr. Dave's Down Syndrome Site http://www.tri21.org/DrDave/

Survivor's Page http://207.194.73.24/survivors/

American Public Human Services Association http://www.aphsa.org/

Chronicillnet http://www.chronicillnet.org/

Vital Records Information http://www.vitalrec.com/links3.html

 
Authority

National Institute For Literacy www.nifl.gov/nifl/fellowship/cromley_report.pdf

Foster Care Adoptions
www.parentsplace.com/fertility/adoptioncentral/articles/0,10335,166267_252933,00.htm

Roy H. Matsumoto http://www.javadc.org/matsumoto.htm

Orphan Survival Stories http://www.geocities.com/trampolineone/survive/srv001.htm

Richard J. Estes http://www.ssw.upenn.edu/~restes/praxis.html

Sean Bennick www.mental-health-matters.com/articles/index.php

Darlene Lynch and Robert Vernon
http://members.home.net/d-bpresentations/contact.htm

 
Currency
Health Resource Network http://www.stresscure.com/hrn/readings.html
Scope 

Public Opinion Centers www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/coms2/po/index.html

OrphanTrain Riders www.hamilton.net/subscribers/hurd/index.html

American Association of Kidney Patients http://www.aakp.org/

Council of Nephrology Social Workers
http://www.kidney.org/professionals/CNSW/index.cfm

Native American Adoptions http://pub23.ezboard.com/fabcforumsfrm27.showMessage?topicID=20.topic

National Criminal Justice Reference Service http://www.ncjrs.org/sitemap.html

 
Accuracy
WildCats http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/90/85/04_2_m.html
AIDS Facts http://147.129.1.10/library/research/AIDSFACTS.htm

Essiac Tea http://www.remedies.net

Canadian Med. As'n http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-158/issue-7/0897.htm

 
Objectivity

Board Source http://boardsource.org/

Social Work Jokes www.suntimes.btinternet.co.uk/intersite/swjokes.html#INTRO

Social Work
http://www.naswpress.org/publications/journals/social_work/swintro.html

Arthur Butz http://pubweb.nwu.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html

International Federation of Social Workers http://www.ifsw.org/

Social Security's Rate of Return for Hispanic Americans
www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/
African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Social Security http://www.cbpp.org/10-5-98socsec.htm

How Many People Experience Homelessness?
http://nch.ari.net/numbers.html

 

Books

The Non-Profit Internet Handbook
Gary Grobman and Gary Grant
White Hat Communications, Harrisburg, PA: 1998
ISBN: 0-9653653-6-0


The Social Worker's Internet Handbook
Gary Grant and Linda Grobman
White Hat Communications, Harrisburg, PA: 1998
ISBN: 0-9653653-5-2


The Internet and Technology for the Human Services
Howard Karger and Joanne Levine
Addison Wesley Longman, New York, NY: 1999
ISBN: 0-8013-3208-7


Social Work and the Web

Robert Vernon and Darlene Lynch
Wadsworth/Thompson Learning, Belmont, CA: 2000
ISBN 0-534-36583-3


Quick Guide to the Internet for Social Work
Joanne Yaffe
Allyn, BaconBoston MA:1998
ISBN: IG3527M2AB


Finding, Citing and Evaluating Websites:
(List courtesy of Dr. Debra Gohagan, Mankato State University, Mankato, MN:  debra.gohagen@mankato.msus.edu)


APA: American Psychological Association: Electronic References
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

APA Help: Handout and Model Paper - Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne
http://www.ipfw.edu/engl/wchome.htm
CLICK on the handouts choice!

APA Style Essentials, Vanguard University
http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/index.cfm?doc_id=796

 

Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html

Evaluating Quality on the Net
http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html


Evaluating Internet Based Information
http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/class/629/Cred.HTML

Choosing Search Engines/search stragegies
http://www.noodletools.com/
(Use the free stuff!)

 

 
WEBSITES WITH RESOURCES:
(These are general websites that have both resources and added meta-lists.)

Baccalaureate Social Work Directors (BPD)
http://www.bpdonline.org


Bigna, S.  (Shirely’s List) Social Work Web Resources
http://kml.uindy.edu/resources/socialwork/index.html

The Complete Social Worker/Social Work Cafe
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4862

Computer Use in Social Services Network (CUSSNet)
http://www.uta.edu/cussn/cussn.html

Columbia University Social Work Library
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/socwk/

Grassroots - Andrews University
http://www.andrews.edu/SOWK/grassroots.htm

The New Social Worker
http://www.socialworker.com/websites.htm

Pat McClendon's Clinical Social Work
http://www.clinicalsocialwork.com/search-reference.html


SWAN (Social Work Access Network)
http://www.sc.edu/swan


World Wide Web Resources for Social Work http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/wwwrsw/



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