SOCIAL WORK
SOCIAL WORK INFORMATION WEBSITES
The Social Workers Access Network (SWAN) is a clearinghouse of links, organizations, Listserv directories, and Usenet Newsgroups. This site is your one-stop location for social work information on the Web. Based at the University of South Carolina College of Social Work, this clearinghouse hopes to become the centralized starting point for any/all social work related issues on the Internet.
Social Work Search is a search engine much like Yahoo, but holds only links of interest social workers and other helping professionals.
Moving Ideas is an on-line virtual magazine created by Princeton University Professor of Sociology Paul Starr. Moving Ideas provides timely information and thoughts on national politics and policies concerning health, the economy, and welfare, just to name a few.
news & new scholarship from around the world
Information for Practice (IP) is a new, free, resource for social service professional that is updated daily. The focus in on professionally relevant stories in the world's news outlets, news articles in scholarly journals, and new resources appearing in the grey literature (e.g., scientific and technical reports primarily from governments and organizations). The goal of this service is to provide social service porfessionals with easier access to high quality infromation that can be used to improve their practice.
POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT WEBSITES
The SWAN Policy and Government Sites page is a jump site for dozens of other politically oriented web pages. From this link, you can find out about the CIA, check up on the Department of Health and Human Services, or get information from the Social Security Administration, as well as much more.
http://cosw.sc.edu/swan/politic.html
The Yahoo! list of political parties will give you access to information about the status, whereabouts, and activities of most political parties active in the United States. Whether your political affiliation is conservative, liberal, or beyond, this website will give you the information you've been looking for.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/politics/parties
Sociology & Social Work
PO Box 15300
Flagstaff AZ
86011-5300
Phone: 928.523.2979
Fax: 928.523.5925
E-Mail: ssw@nau.edu
We are located in the Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg #65, Room #330.
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