Chapter 10 - Social Work and Social Policy

Public Welfare Organizations

American Public Human Service Association (formerly known as the American Public Welfare Association) - homepage includes news, links, resources on welfare reform, abstracts of articles in journal Policy and Practice (formerly Public Welfare)

General Resources

Electronic Policy Network - background on selected policies, policy articles, search tool to locate policy material

How Laws are Made - detailed information traces processes of law-making

Find Law - Internet legal resources for locating legal information

Full Text State Statutes and Legislation - -links to state legislative resources available on the Internet

Canadian Council on Social Development - national not-for-profit organization to advance social programs and policies to serve children, families, and communities, online documents, statistics, social indicators, and links to other web resources

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts policy analysis and research on selected government policies. Online reports on poverty and welfare reform

Twentieth Century Foundation - policy institute for critical analysis of economic, political and social institutions and issues; current foci include economic inequality, aging, media and society, and the economy

Urban Institute - focuses on social and economic problems in the US; resources include online articles about welfare reform, Social Security, New Federalism, and aging

Canadian Policy Research Networks, Inc. - purpose of organization: to "create knowledge and lead public debate is social and economic issues important to the well-being of Canadians"; policy issues include those related to family, health, and work

Historical Perspectives

Social Security Administration History Page - comprehensive site detailing the history of Social Security, including special collection of online video and audio clips, photo gallery of pictures and old posters, chronology of social insurance, oral histories, and virtual tours

FDR's Message to Congress, January 17, 1935

The New Deal Network - document library, photo gallery, web projects, links to online resources

We Made Do - Recalling the Great Depression - oral histories

American Memory: Library of Congress - oral histories, voices from the dustbowl

WPA California Folk Music Project - an elaborate New Deal project includes sound recordings, drawings, photographs, and written documents from a multicultural ethnographic field project

American Life Histories - WPA writers project

Public Welfare Programs (US)

Social Service Block Grant - government site providing program definition and statistics

Medicare and Medicaid - Health Care Financing Administration web site with information about programs, special projects and initiatives, and related news briefs

Federal Poverty Guidelines - Department of Health and Human Services site with information about current poverty guidelines, links to other statistical information about poverty and related articles

Administration for Children and Families - child care, welfare issues; links to program web sites

Welfare Reform

National conference on State Legislatures - Welfare Reform - information about welfare reform, including news about state initiatives

Institute for Women's Policy Research - Washington DC based organization concerned with policy issues related to women - welfare and Social Security reform

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