Child Welfare
CWLA is an association of public and private nonprofit agencies that assist abused and neglected children and families through a wide range of services. The site offers information on their programs, publications, and upcoming conferences and trainings.
The Missing and- Exploited Children’s Training Programs serve law enforcement, social workers, prosecutors, judges, probation officers, and elected officials. Courses are offered on many topics, including child abuse and exploitation investigative techniques; child abuse and exploitation team investigative process; child sexual exploitation; and responding to reports of missing and abducted children.
This agency provides prevention, intervention, and treatment services to physically and sexually abused children and their families within a child-focused team approach.
NCCAN is a national resource for professionals seeking information on child maltreatment, all aspects of child abuse and neglect, prevention identification, treatment of child abuse, and other child welfare issues. Their excellent website provides informational databases, links, and current highlights.
Child Awareness Services opened this website of accessible links to individual states’ searchable databases of registered sex offenders in the United States and other select countries.
Disability Resources
ADAP's mission is to provide quality, legally-based advocacy services to Alabamians with disabilities in order to protect, promote and expand their rights.
Written for families, care-providers, and interested individuals, this site is a good resource for information about advocacy, education, employment, health, housing, recreation, technical assistance, and transportation for children who have developmental, physical, and emotional disabilities.
The IRSC website provides information relating to the needs of children with disabilities on a global basis in order to provide valuable information for parents, family members, caregivers, friends, educators, and medical professionals who interact with children who have disabilities. This page has an extensive set of links to information on different disabilities, health issues, legal issues, and general information.
School Issues
CHADD works to improve the lives of people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder through education, advocacy, and support. Their site offers great information on ADD and disability issues in the legislature.
An interactive learning disability resource guide for parents, teachers, and students, this site provides a wealth of recent articles and legislation.
Substance Abuse
This comprehensive site provides links to virtually every relevant topic on substance abuse, as well as links to fact sheets and statistics.
This is the most complete resource on the web for information about programs, facilities, and schools helping young people who are not meeting expectations due to emotional, behavioral, or addiction problems.
This site provides information on fetal alcohol syndrome, fetal alcohol effects, and alcohol-related birth defects, as well as information on prevention methods and teaching students with these problems.
The mission of NACA is to advocate for all children and families affected by alcoholism and other drug dependencies. This mission drives all of their programs and materials to help children of alcoholics.
African-American Children & Families
This site provides a wide array of information for African American families, as well as many links to other sites of interest.
Celebrating African American History and Achievement. This online magazine celebrates the heritage of African Americans and explores their contributions to our culture.
NBCDI’s website includes information on membership, public policy, resources, and a calendar of upcoming events.
Gay and Lesbian Youth
NGLTF is a national progressive organization working for the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. Their site contains updated information on GLBT law and current issues.
The NGLTF Youth Institute offers young people the opportunity to learn the skills necessary to create change.
Youth Action Online is a service run by volunteers, created to help self-identifying gay, lesbian, bisexual, and questioning youth. YAO exists to provide young people with a safe space online to be themselves.
This site includes parenting articles, children’s resources, adoption information, and other links.
Other Issues
This electronic guide provides information regarding adolescent issues and secondary education, including mental health risk factors for adolescents.
Connect for Kids is a virtual encyclopedia of information for adults who want to make communities a better place for kids. Most topics include information on substance abuse, schools, and media issues.
NASW works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintain professional standards, and to advance sound social policies.
Search this directory to find youth and family programs and services in your own neighborhood and nationwide.
Cultural Information
This website provides legal definitions of biracial individuals, testimonies, fact sheets and statistics on biracial families, and information on children’s school issues.
The Center for the Study of Biracial Children produces and disseminates materials for and about interracial families and biracial children. The center provides advocacy, training, and consulting. Its primary mission is to advocate for the rights of interracial families, biracial children, and multiracial people.
This site contains information, resources, and links to other sites, provided by the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice.
This site is a part of Central Michigan University’s website and offers many links for under-standing and learning about Middle Eastern American culture, including cultural information about Iranians, Arabs, Jews, Persians, etc.
This site includes information and resources on interracial people. Included are poets’ writing samples, relationship forums, discrimination information, and information on building diversity.
Immigration Resources
This site provides many links to reference materials on legal issues, resources, and organizations on immigrant issues in America.
An excellent resource for many current immigrant issues, this site contains informative articles explaining important topics that arise in U.S. immigration and a forum for asking questions about immigration.
This site provides resources on the legal aspects of immigration and naturalization. There is also a glossary of immigration and naturalization legal terms available.
Latino Culture
This site provides information about the Hispanic culture, specifically in business.
This site includes information on culture, entertainment, politics, reference materials, and other Internet sites.
UCLA’s Latino website offers a great library and links to all aspects of Latino culture.
Native American Links
The public policy section of NICWA’s website provides information on how specific child welfare laws impact Indian children. The site also provides links to other information on Native American culture.
This site contains over three thousand links to various aspects of Native American culture and history.
This is a virtual library of the Indian culture with an index of resources on the web, including culture, history, language, health, and art.
Their mission is to work with the Indian community to preserve and reunite Indian families by providing culturally appropriate legal services to Indian children, parents, extended family members, and tribes in cases governed by the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, and to serve as a community development resource for ICWA education, advocacy, and public policy.
LAW & ADVOCACY
The Southern Juvenile Defender Center (SJDC) is dedicated to enhancing the juvenile defense bar's capacity to provide high quality representation to children in the Deep South - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina. SJDC also advocates for improvements in the juvenile justice system throughout the southern region.
The goal of the ABA Children’s Law Division is to improve the lives of children through advances in law, justice, knowledge, practice, and public policy. This site includes child welfare tips and great child advocacy links.
This newsletter offers news and resources for professionals and volunteers who advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children. The site includes information on legal issues, medical topics, web resources, and legislation.
Children Now utilizes the mass media to make children a top priority across the country. They work to improve the quality of news and entertainment media for children and about children’s issues.
This is a teen-written foster care magazine that discusses issues facing children throughout the foster care system. Their goal is to train, inform, and provide a voice for teens through print journalism.
This foster parent resource provides articles, website links, and information on local foster parent associations. Links include grandparent and relative caregiver links, attachment disorders, medical links, adoption, HIV, educational issues, FAS, and ADD/ADHD.
Hear My Voice is a unique coalition of volunteer child advocates and professionals in the areas of law, mental health, and the media. The site lists the recent success stories of difficult child advocacy cases.
The American Bar Association Juvenile Justice Center is dedicated to monitoring the legislative, fiscal, policy, and administrative changes rapidly emerging in juvenile justice systems across the nation.
NACA is the only national organization devoted to building the capacity of state and local child advocacy organizations. Founded in 1984, NACA is a nationwide network of child advocacy organizations working at the increasingly critical level of America’s statehouses, county commissions, and city councils.
NACC is a nonprofit professional membership organization dedicated to quality representation and protection of children in the legal system. Their purpose is to assist attorneys and other professionals in their work with children in the legal system. At the same time, NACC carries out a policy agenda designed to improve the legal system for children. This site provides advocacy links and upcoming events.
NCA’s Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) are community-based programs that bring together representatives from law enforcement, juvenile court counselors, mental health, and other service providing agencies to address the investigation, treatment, and prosecution of child abuse cases.
The website for the national child advocacy organization, this site includes information about the work of CASA programs as well as a library with links about several important topics impacting children, including HIV, cultural awareness, and advocacy.
This comprehensive site offers a wide variety of online resources of interest to social workers and those in the social services fields.
This site provides a link to a summary of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, as well as a link to a chat room for others interested in this topic.
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