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List of URLs for Social Work
VIOLENCE
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- Act Against Violence Outreach Campaign
Act Against Violence is a multi-year, solutions-based public television outreach effort which combines programming, print materials, and community events to help reduce youth violence.
- Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime and Victims Statistics
Information, statistics, and publications about criminal victimization in the United States and related data collections.
- Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) was founded in 1992 with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to provide informed assistance to groups committed to understanding and preventing violence, particularly adolescent violence.
- Child Abuse Prevention Network
This site is dedicated to using the World Wide Web to give child abuse prevention professionals the fullest possible support in their work. A seemingly inexhaustible reference of links for professionals.
- Community United Against Violence
CUAV is a 15-year-old nonprofit agency that addresses and prevents hate violence directed at lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered persons.
- Domestic Violence Handbook
This online resource is designed to assist women who are experiencing domestic abuse.
- Domestic Violence Hotlines
Links to telephone, postal, and electronic addresses for domestic violence hotlines across the country.
- The Family Peace Project
The Family Peace Project provides education, training and consultation to citizens, health care professionals, organizations and communities. Staff for the Project consists of psychologists and community activists who believe that citizens can improve their communities by using the power of individual responsibility, civic action and the democratic process to engage the strengths and resources of our local communities and create local solutions.
- Family Violence Prevention Fund
FUND is a national nonprofit organization that focuses on domestic violence education, prevention and public policy reform. The site provides a host of links to domestic violence sites, allied organizations, and other resources.
- Guggenheim Foundation Research on Violence and Aggression
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year. The HFG Review of research is published on a semi-annual basis.
- GUNFREE
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence was founded to combat the growing gun violence problem in the United States. CSGV is a unique coalition of more than forty religious, professional, labor, medical, educational and civic organizations.
- The Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center
The Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center (HYVPC) is an innovative, multi-disciplinary center based at the Harvard School of Public Health. The Center's theme is "Research Partnerships with Communities." Center activities are based upon the premise that effective prevention evolves from mutually respectful, reciprocal relationships between researchers, community members, and policy makers.
- Justice Information Center (NCJRS): Victims Domestic "and Family Violence
Links to documents about domestic and family violence.
- Mapping Policies and Actions
This site presents an annotated bibliography about violence against women. The material in this bibliography is organized into subject areas. The broad subject areas include; criminal justice, civil/family "law, health, economic/social welfare, housing, education/curriculum, community-based programs and services and literature reviews.
- Minnesota Higher Education Center Against Violence "and Abuse
The goal of the Clearinghouse is to provide a quick and user-friendly access point to the extensive electronic resources on the topic of violence and abuse available through the Internet. It offers access to thousands of Gopher servers, interactive discussion groups, newsgroups and Web sites around the world.
- The National Center for Victims of Crime
The National Center for Victims of Crime provides assistance to victims of crime and providers of assistance to victims of crime.
- National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
NCADV is a grassroots nonprofit membership organization working since 1978 to end violence in the lives of women and children. They provide a national network for state coalitions and local programs serving battered women and their children, public policy at the national level, technical assistance, community awareness campaigns, general information and referrals, and publications on the issue of domestic violence, sponsor of a national conference every two years for battered women and their advocates.
- National Consortium on Violence Research
NCOVR has been created as a research and training center devoted to studying the factors contributing to inter-personal violence. The NCOVR World Wide Web site is served by the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- National Network of Violence Prevention Practitioners
The NNVPP specializes in the preparation and distribution of curricula that synthesize violence prevention information, as well as providing specialized training and technical assistance to practitioners nationwide.
- NOW and Violence Against Women
Information from the National Organization for Women about violence against women.
- Pacific Center for Violence Prevention
The Pacific Center for Violence Prevention, a project of the Trauma Foundation, works to prevent youth violence in California. Located "at San Francisco General Hospital, the Center serves as the policy headquarters for the Violence Prevention Initiative funded by The California Wellness Foundation.
- Partnerships Against Violence Network
PAVNET Online is a "virtual library" of information about violence and youth-at-risk, representing data from seven different federal agencies. It considers itself a "one-stop", searchable, information resource to help reduce redundancy in information management and provide clear and comprehensive access to information for states and local communities.
- Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network
RAINN is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that operates a national toll-free hotline for victims of sexual assault.
- SafetyNet Domestic Violence Resources
A compendium of a wide range of information related to the issue of domestic violence.
- Sexual Assault Information Page
SAIP is a not-for-profit information and referral that provides information concerning acquaintance rape, child sexual abuse/assault, incest, rape, ritual abuse, sexual assault, and sexual harassment. Information is provided via the WWW, email, a bimonthly electronic newsletter, as well as occasional hardcopy mailings for specific requests.
- The Silent Witness National Initiative
In 1990, an ad hoc group of women artists and writers, upset about the growing number of women in Minnesota being murdered by their partners or acquaintances, joined together with several other women's organizations to form Arts Action Against Domestic Violence, which has as its goal the promotion of successful community-based domestic violence reduction efforts in order to reach zero domestic murders by 2010.
- Violence Against Women and Sexual Harassment
Anti-Violence Resources at Feminist.com.
- Violence and Abuse in Couples Project
This project has as its goal the development of a feminist-informed, morally explicit systemic conjoint treatment model to end violence by men toward their female partners.
- Women, Co-Occurring Disorders & Violence Study
The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the Center for Mental Health Services, acknowledging the impact of violence and the role of physical and sexual abuse in the lives of women with serious mental illnesses, have responded by collaborating on the development and administration of this new study. This research is looking at women with alcohol, drug abuse and mental health disorders who have histories of violence. Knowledge that is gained from this multi-site, multi-center study is expected to be useful in advancing national, state and local policy that affects how the various service systems respond to women with co-occurring disorders who have histories of violence, and their children.
- Child Abuse Prevention Network
Mailing lists for professionals in child abuse prevention and treatment.
- cti-soc-work-uk
CTI Human Services maintain this list to allow social work teachers in the UK, and international colleagues, to discuss the use of educational and learning technology in social work education. Information on new developments, publications, software, workshops, and conferences may also be posted.
- Gender-Related Electronic Forums
Gender-Related Electronic Forums is an annotated, frequently updated, award winning listing of publicly accessible electronic forums related to women or to gender issues.
- Internet Discussion Lists for Social Workers
Dozens of email lists from the BPD site at Rochester Institute of Technology.
- Mental Health Mailing Lists
Mailing lists from the Mining Company.
- Psychology and Support Mailing List Pointer
Alphabetic listing of dozens of support-oriented and professional mailings lists.
- Social Work Access Network
One of the most comprehensive listings of social work relevant discussion groups is the Social Work Listservs page maintained by the SWAN. The list references nearly 60 mailing lists related to a variety of aspects of social work practice.
- Social Work Resources
Lists of mailing lists from Pat McClendon, a social work from Louisville, Kentucky.
- Virtual Social Work Mailing Lists
Mailing lists from a site devoted to helping British social workers find resources in an Internet environment dominated by the United States.
- Web Resources for Social Workers
An extensive list of listservs from the site at Colorado State.
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