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APHSA Affiliate Organizations

• American Public Human Services Association–Information Systems Management (APHSA–ISM)
• National Association of State Medicaid Directors (NASMD)
• National Staff Development and Training Association (NSDTA)

State Human Service Agencies

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Most state agencies have their own web sites. For those states that do not, we provide a link to the state government web site.

Federal Government Sites

• Complete list of official federal government sites (Library of Congress)
• FedLaw (General Services Administration)
• Federal Register Online via GPO Access
• House Ways and Means Committee
• Library of Congress’ legislation search engine (THOMAS)
  • Bill Summary and Status (106th Congress)
• Social Security Administration
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
• ACF Office of State Systems
• Child Care Bureau
• Children’s Bureau
• Family and Youth Services Bureau
• National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect
• National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth
• Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE)
• Administration on Aging (AoA)
• Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
• National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
• Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
  • Neighborhood Networks
• U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)
  • Welfare to Work
  • Workforce Investment Act
• U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO)
• U.S. House of Representatives Committee List
• U.S. Senate Committee List
• U.S. Small Business Administration’s Welfare to Work@SBA

Associations Representing Governors and State Governments

• National Conference of State Legislatures
• National Governors’ Association

Private and Nonprofit Sites

• ABA Center on Children and the Law
• Alpha Center
• American Humane Association
• Assessing the New Federalism (The Urban Institute)
• Association of Juvenile Compact Administrators
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
• The Benton Foundation
• Beyond Dependency Network
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Casey Family Services
• Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.
• Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
• Center for Public Policy Priorities
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• Chapin Hall Center for Children (University of Chicago)
• Child Welfare Institute
• Child Welfare League of America
• Children and Family Research Center (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Children Now
• Children's Defense Fund
• Coalition for America’s Children
• The Commonwealth Fund
• Community Transportation Association of America
• Council on Social Work Education
• Curtis & Associates
• Electronic Funds Transfer Association
• Electronic Policy Network
• The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
• Family Resource Coalition of America
• The Finance Project
• Foster Care Connections
• FundsNet
• HandsNet
• The Institute for Research on Poverty (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Institute for Socioeconomic Studies
• Jobs for the Future
• Joint Center for Poverty Research
• Kaiser Family Foundation
• W. K. Kellogg Foundation
• KidsCampaigns
• Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
• Mathematica Policy Research
• The McKnight Welfare Reform Partnerships
• National Academy for State Health Policy
• National Association of Hearing Officials
• National Association of Social Workers
• National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors
• National Association of Workforce Development Professionals
• National Center for Family Literacy
• National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA)
• National Child Support Enforcement Association
• National Committee for Quality Assurance
• National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse
• National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association
• National Employment Counseling Association
• National Health Policy Forum (George Washington University)
• National Indian Child Welfare Association
• National Resource Center on Child Maltreatment
• Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere)
• Public Agenda Online
• Research Forum on Children, Families, and the New Federalism
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Save LIHEAP
• Sound Partners for Community Health
• Southern Institute on Children and Families
• TANF Work Experience Project (Millville, N.J., Employment Service Office)
• The Urban Institute
  • Assessing the New Federalism: National Survey of America's Families
• Welfare Information Network
• Welfare Policy Center of Hudson Institute
• Welfare Reform Academy (University of Maryland)
• Welfare to Work Partnership
• Welfare Watch

References and Other Resources

• FedLaw (General Services Administration)
• Federal Register Online via GPO Access
• FedStats: Statistics of Federal Agencies
• Healthfinder (National Health Information Center)
• Internet Law Library
• THOMAS: The Library of Congress’ legislation search engine
  • Bill Summary and Status (106th Congress)
• Social Work Search Engine
• U.S. State and Local Gateway
• WWW Resources for Social Workers