LibGuides: Social Work: Specializations

Children and Schools

The KIDS COUNT Data Center
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT® (LA INFANCIA CUENTA™) is a trusted source of data on children, youth and families. Find indicators for the nation, states and more.
ACF Children's Bureau Data and Statistics
Statistics on a variety of child welfare topics, including adoption, foster care, and child abuse and neglect provider by the Administration of Children & Families.
CHILDSTATS Forum on Child and Family Statistics
The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (Forum) is a collection of 23 Federal government agencies involved in research and activities related to children and families. The Forum's annual report, America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, provides the Nation with a summary of national indicators of child well-being and monitors changes in these indicators over time.

New York State School Social Worker's Association
The New York State School Social Workers’ Association (NYSSSWA) is the only NYS professional association dedicated solely to the visibility and viability of School Social Workers and the students and families that we serve.
NYC Department of Education Social Work Landing Page

Advocates for Children of New York
Advocates for Children of New York (AFC)’s mission is to ensure a high-quality education for New York students who face barriers to academic success, focusing on students from low-income backgrounds.
Children's Defense Fund
CDF operates collaboratively with children, youth and families to advance collective action around youth and family justice, economic mobility and health.
Center for New York City Affairs-Child Welfare Watch
For nearly twenty years, the Center’s Child Welfare Watch project has focused on vulnerable children, youth and families.
The Center tracks the economic and social wellbeing of individuals and communities, examines the quality of public services, and offers constructive recommendations for reform.
Juvenile Law Center
The Juvenile law center provides legal advocacy for children in the justice system, prison an in foster care.

Psychiatry Online (DSM-5)
Includes a number of American Psychiatric Publishing books and journals including The American Journal of Psychiatry. Content dates back to 1844.
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works (Vol. 1)

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works is a landmark database that contains more than 2,000 transcripts of actual therapy sessions, 44,000 pages of client narratives and 25,000 pages of major reference works. There are diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs along with the full text of therapy and counseling sessions themselves. All accounts are non-fiction, delivered in the first person and, where possible, contemporaneous.

APA Topics in Psychology
The American Psychological Association provides introductions to various mental health topics and links to relevant articles and publications.
APA Dictionary
This dictionary from the American Psychological Association provides definitions of mental health terminology.

Leadership Council of Aging Organizations (LCAO)
The Leadership Council of Aging Organizations (LCAO) is a coalition of national nonprofit organizations concerned with the well-being of America’s older population and committed to representing their interests in the policy-making arena.