Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Association (ANAB) - Good place to begin looking for web sites on eating disorders.

National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)  - Extensive "Tool Kits" for persons working with persons with eating disorders, links, resources.

Mirror Mirror - Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fattest one of all?

National Eating Disorder Information Center - Quality site with information for professionals, families.  Links, resources.

Something Fishy -  Excellent site with info. on a variety of eating disorders, signs & symptoms, treatment resources, prevention, links, etc.

Health Care Information Resources - Lists several eating disorders links.

Substance Abuse

National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare - This web site provides easy access to a wide range of information on improving systems and practice for professionals working in child welfare, substance abuse treatment, or the family courts. The website features fact sheets, statistics, literature reviews, abstracts, training, practice and policy tools, legislation, and much more.

Center for Addiction and Mental Health - The Center for Addiction and Mental Health is a public hospital providing direct patient care for people with mental health and addiction problems. The Centre is also a research facility, an education and training institute and a community based organization providing health promotion and prevention services across the province.

Interventions - Resources for alcohol & other drug addiction and other compulsive behavior links.

National Institute on Drug Abuse - This is an excellent site offering concise, well documented information. Good links to other sites.

Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) - Very useful site offering drug facts, publications, nation policy, prevention, education & treatment information.

Partnership for a Drug Free America - Click on name of common drugs or their slang names and get concise fact sheet.

Meth in Minnesota: The Costly Addiction - Minnesota Public Radio, June 2004 .

 Bonding and Attachment in Maltreated Children: Consequences of Emotional Neglect in Childhood- This booklet is one in a series developed by the Child Trauma Academy to assist parents, caregivers, teachers and various professionals working with maltreated and traumatized children. By Dr. Bruce Perry.

Bonding and Attachment in Maltreated Children: How You Can Help Simple, clear list of ways to help children with attachment issues.

ABA Center for Children and Law - Important site with a good list of links with descriptions of each.

Administration for Children & Families - The Administration for Children & Families within the Dept. of Health and Human Services is responsible for federal programs which promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities.  At this site, you can access ACF press releases and find additional information about federal programs for children and their families.

American Humane Association - Statistics, publications, training opportunities available at this site.

The Casey Family Program - This is a great site that has information of general interest about foster care, adoption, and kinship care, as well as specifically addressing the development and support of a sufficient pool of competent resource families to provide children and youths with safety, protection, stability and permanency, it also has good information on Chafee Foster Care Independence Act.

Children's Bureau - At this site, you can get information about federal programs assisting children and families, including AFCARS-the adoption and foster care analysis and reporting system.

Children's Defense Fund - Important site for children's programs.  Well described links, links with info on Healthy Start, Head Start

Child Welfare - Access to electronic journals, articles, links. A gateway to information related to the welfare of children, including electronic journal, Child Welfare Review, a library, a resource on issues related to sources on child welfare.

Child Welfare League of America - CWLA is the oldest and largest national nonprofit organization developing and promoting policies and programs to protect America's children and strengthen America's families.

The Future of Children - The Future of Children is published twice annually by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Los Altos, CA. The primary purpose of The Future of Children is to disseminate timely information on major issues related to children's well-being.

Institute for Human Services(IHS) - IHS has provided the curriculum and trainers for the Western Wisconsin Partnership. Site includes links to the individual trainers.

NACC - National Association of Counsel for Children.

National Adoption Information Clearinghouse - A comprehensive resource on all aspects of adoption including special needs and intercountry adoptions. (U.S. DHHS)

National Clearing House on Child Abuse and Neglect Information - Excellent source of info-wide variety.

National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect - The mission of the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) is to facilitate the secondary analysis of research data relevant to the study of child abuse and neglect. By making data available to a larger number of researchers, NDACAN seeks to provide a relatively inexpensive and scientifically productive means for researchers to explore important issues in the child maltreatment field. Below is a list of the Archive's current products and services.

National Indian Child Welfare Association - This excellent website provides a wide variety of information regarding Indian Child Welfare. Including, good background on the Indian Child Welfare Act.

National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization - Web site regarding male survivors of sexual abuse. Articles, resources, bibliography, list of myths.

Promising Practices Network - The Promising Practices Network highlights information on programs and practices that are effective in helping children, families, and communities.

The Supervised Visitation Network

Wisconsin Council on Children and Families - Great site for information on brain development, welfare information, news, links.

W.K.Kellogg Foundation - Philanthropy and Grants - To help people help themselves.

County Staff: The materials linked below are intended to help you communicate your work to your community partners. Each topic has a set of options:

1. PowerPoint slide show with narrative. This slide show has the narrative already embedded, so all the viewer needs to start the slide show. It is set to play on it's own.
2. PowerPoint slide show with no narrative. This is intended if you want to just use the slides, but do your own presentation content. You can use all or part of the PowerPoint. If you want to use all or some of the narrative we have written, you can print the Word Document described below.
3. Word Document. The PowerPoint slides with the Notes Page will help you explain the content--use whatever is useful to you. The text is the narrative described above.
4. PowerPoint in HTML without sound. This is in case you don't have PowerPoint on your computer but want to use the slide show. It includes the Notes Page. You may want to adjust the bottom of your slide show so the notes will not show.

If you have any questions about how to use this resource, contact Jennifer at jennifer.e.borup@uwrf.edu , or 715-425-3370.

Team Based Practice: This is a brief introduction to family teaming.

1. PowerPoint with narrative
2. PowerPoint without narrative
3. Word Document with Notes Page

Introduction to CPS: This is a brief introduction to CPS including basis in statute, the language of child safety, separation/loss, and the CPS process.

1. PowerPoint without narrative
2. Word Document with Notes Page
3. PowerPoint in HTML

Florida Core Competencies

Ohio's Universe of Competencies

California's Core Competencies

Wyoming Core Competencies

CPS Competencies (Draft WWP)

Sample of how competencies could be gridded for identifying where and at what level each would appear in curriculum.

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbian and Gays (PFLAG).

Association for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues in Counseling Resource List.

Answers to Your Questions about Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality. Am. Psychological Assn. document.

Lesbian and Gay Parents. From the Am. Psychological Assn., the publication is provided for the use of clinicians, researchers, students, lawyers, and parents involved in legal and policy issues related to lesbian and gay parenting.

OutProud - Wide range of resources available for youth and educators on issues relevant to gay, lesbian and bisexual persons

Partners Task Force for Gay and Lesbian Couples - Partners Task Force for Gay and Lesbian Couples is a national resource for same-sex couples, supporting the diverse community of committed gay and lesbian partners through a variety of media. The constantly update Web site contains more than 200 essays, surveys, legal articles, and resources on legal marriage, ceremonies, domestic partner benefits, relationship tips, parenting, and immigration.

Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel - This primer is useful for anyone learning about GLBTQ issues. Good resource list.

Native American Resources

American Indian Heritage Foundation - List of federally recognized American Indian tribes with contact information.

American Indian Policy Center - This site was created to provide government leaders, policy makers and the public with accurate information about the legal and political history of American Indian nations and the contemporary situation for American Indians.

Bureau of Indian Affairs - U.S. Department of the Interior.

Histories of First Nations - Includes Wisconsin tribes. Be sure to click twice-first you get a very brief history-click again on the name and you will get a lengthy history.

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet -This web site links you to an extensive list of resources on Native American history, culture, art, etc.

National Indian Child Welfare Association - Website with access to publication library from which you can purchase booklets/manuals relevant to working with Native American children and families.

Native American Nations - This site gives you access to the web sites of Native American Nations.

Native American Resource Page - Provides NA links with good descriptions.  Links to primary government agencies serving native populations, art and culture, etc.

Ojibway - An introduction to the culture and history of the Ojibway.

African American

African Americans in Foster Care - 2007, a US GAO report

A Practice Guide for Working with African American Families - The Role of the
Caseworker in Identifying, Developing and Supporting Strengths in African American Families Involved in Child Protection Services, 2008

Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community, University of MN. an organization focused on the unique circumstances of African Americans as they face issues related to domestic violence - including intimate partner violence, child abuse, elder maltreatment, and community violence

Working with African American Families - Child Welfare Information Gateway - Links to useful articles and websites.

Hmong

This is Home - Information on the Hmong in Minnesota

WWW Hmong Homepage - Lists of links for information on current events and announcements, special projects and general information about Hmong people, history and culture.

Domestic Violence Institute - Questionnaires for assessing psychological, physical, sexual abuse, lethality guide.

Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse - Exceptional site with links to articles, fact sheets and other informative resources on child abuse, domestic violence, publications.

REFERENCE MATERIALS FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WORKSHOP

Article from the UK Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/feb/03/domestic-violence-children-danger-fathers

National Institute for Justice - Article on Violence against women

http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/223572.pdf

National Institute for Justice - article on "Practical Implications of Current Domestic Violence Research"

http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/225722.pdf

Centers for American Progress - article on "Fatherhood Policy.."

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/10/pdf/fatherhoodreport.pdf

In the Name of the Child - Article (The Five P's)

 Blank Eco-Map
Sample Questions for Creating Eco-Map

Diagramming Families for Assessment(This is a good description of both genograms and ecomaps.)

Software (with free trial)

Best Practice Next Practice, Summer, 2002- Excellent series of articles on father involvement. A publication of the National Child Welfare Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice.

Bringing Back the Dads: Engaging Non-Resident Fathers in the Child Welfare System - Useful series of articles in American Humane Assn.'S Protecting Children publication, Vol24(2), 2009.

Children of Incarcerated Parents - Linked from the N. California Training Academy, you'll find a series of fact sheets useful both for yourself and for clients on a whole list of topics related to working with children who have incarcerated parents.

Dads at a Distance. Creative ideas about how fathers no living at home can interact with their children--at a distance.

The Consequences of Fatherlessness. Two pages of data that could be used with mothers/other team members.

Fathering after Violence: Working with Abusive Fathers in Supervised Visits - Family Violence Prevention Fund, 2007.

The Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children, User Manual Series (2006) Children's Bureau. The is manual is designed to help caseworkers: Recognize the value of fathers to children; Appreciate the importance of fathers to the case planning and service provision process; Understand the issues unique to working with fathers; Effectively involve fathers in all aspects of case management, from assessment through case closure; Work successfully with fathers in a wide range of family situations and structures.

More about the Dads: Exploring Associations between Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Welfare Case Outcomes - U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. 2006.

National Child Welfare Resource Center Best Practice publication: Father Involvement. This issue includes a good number of articles about engaging fathers, why they should be involved case examples, incarcerated fathers, etc.

National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Residential Fathers and the Child Welfare System. QIC NRF is a collaborative effort between the American Humane Association , the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, and National Fatherhood Initiative and funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children’s Bureau. Provides materials for professionals as well as fathers.

No Further Harm: What We Owe to Incarcerated Fathers, Boston Review, 2008. Good article about the complex issues related to being an incarcerated father.

Practice Guide for Locating and Involving Non-Custodial Parents, Alleged Fathers and Relatives. This document provides Wisconsin minimum standards, guidance and tools which will assist agencies in identifying, locating and involving non-custodial parents, alleged fathers and relatives as resources for children, particularly children who have been removed from the home

Reaching Nonresident Fathers in the Child Welfare System: Understanding Male Help-Seeking Behaviors - Child Law Practice, Jan., 2009.

Working with Children with Parents in Prison. Practice Notes from N. Carolinas Child Welfare Resource Program. Includes topics like understanding and Supporting foster children with incarcerated parents, prison visitation basics.

Consensus - How to and Why - A brief guide to organizing your group with consensus proceedings. This is much easier, of course, with smaller groups, but can be quite easily done with larger groups if you have an attentive facilitator(s) and focused & willing participants.

CST Wisconsin Collaborative Systems of Care - Sponsored by White Pines Consulting Service, Inc., this website is meant to serve as a resource to service coordinators, project coordinators, coordinating committee members, families, and team members who are involved in or would like to learn more about involvement in collaborative systems of care. This is where you will find the Handbook for CST.

Family Team Conferences in Domestic Violence Cases: Guidelines for Practice.

Handbook for Family Team Conferencing: Promoting Safe and Stable Families. This is good reference for the basics and includes good practice tips for effective conferencing.

Iowa Family Team Meetings - Excellent site with lots of specific resources. Iowa is a national leader in doing family teaming.

The National Center on Family Group Decision Making - The National Center strives to build community capacity to implement high quality, effective family group decision making processes that are philosophically congruent with the central values and beliefs of this approach.

Practice Notes for North Carolina Child Welfare Workers; Child and Family Team Meetings in Child Welfare - Introduction to family conferences, some of the research on them, perspectives of people who know firsthand the challenges and benefits of these family-centered meetings.

Foster Care and Adoption Resource Center -the Foster Care and Adoption Resourcee Center provides information and resources for Wisconsin’s: 

• Existing or Prospective Foster and Adoptive Families
• Public, Tribal and Private Agency Foster Care, Child Welfare and Adoption Staff
• Youth currently or previous involved with the Foster Care system

SITES WITH FOSTER PARENT ON-LINE TRAINING

Alaskan Foster Parent Training Site - Free on-line 2-3 hour trainings

Foster Parent College - A wide variety of 2 hour trainings. $10 each but can readily get scholarship thru website for 4 trainings.

Foster Care and Adoptive Community - Many on-line trainings for less than $10.

FOSTER PARENT SEPARATION AND LOSS

Support at the End of Placement - Guide for FCC/SW to support the foster parent through the grief process

Stages of Grief and Ways to Work Through the Stages - Stages of grief applied to the foster parent.

The Challenges of Foster Care: Grief and Loss - Tip Sheets: Quick References for Parents from the Foster Care and Adoption Center.

New York State Citizen's Coalition for Children: Helping Foster Parent Grieve

Separation, Loss, and Foster Parent Retention - Brief summary of the article "When Foster Children Leave: Helping the Foster Parent Grieve" by Susan Edelstein.

OTHER RESOURCES

Adoption: Where Families Come Together - Wisconsin specific site with a great deal of information of all kinds for birthmothers and adoptive parents.

Adoption Book Catalog - Useful site with publications list and also adoption specific information including how to talk to you child about adoption.

Adoptive Families- Adoptive Families magazine is a valuable, even critical, resource for many, many families. Whether families are considering adoption or have already adopted, the magazine quickly becomes one of their most trusted friends and a source of independent, thoughtful information.

Early Childhood Information Clearinghouse - This site provides information about young children, birth to age three, including links to Idaho programs and worldwide information, current practice and research, and child development information.

FACES of Adoption: America's Waiting Children

Family Works - Family Works, Inc. is licensed by the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services to provide an intensive treatment option for children and youth with complex needs.

Foster Care Agency - This site is designed to foster "connections" among new, experienced and prospective foster parents.

Foster Parent Community - Extensive list of articles, blogs, etc.

National CASA - Volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) are everyday people who are appointed by judges to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children. A CASA volunteer stays with each child until they are placed into a safe, permanent and nurturing home.

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

National Foster Parent Association - The National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) is a nonprofit volunteer organization established in 1972.

National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning

National Youth in Care - The NYICN assists local youth in care groups in their development by providing them with information and contacts, support, and encouragement.

Welcome To Kids Health

Department of Regulation and Licensing.

Federal Legislatures - Enter your zip code and this site will give you the email address, mailing info, phone, fax for your federal legislatures.

Fed World -  a comprehensive central access point for searching, locating, ordering and acquiring government and business information.

Federal Web Locator - Intended to be the one stop shopping point for federal government information on the world wide web.

Government Printing Office - Full text of congressional bills, congressional record, federal register, general accounting office reports, history of bills, public laws, and the United States Code.

List of WI counties with hyperlinks to each of their websites.

Reviser of Statutes Bureau - This is where you can search for a statute by number.

Search tool - for Wisconsin statutes, administrative code, etc.

State of Wisconsin Site

• Division of Children and Family Services
• Wisconsin Courts
• DCFS Informational Memos
• DCFS Memo Series

WI Dept. of Health and Family Services

WI Administrative Code on Social Work Certification/Licensure

 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Family Fact Sheets - Excellent site for information on a great many topics relevant to children and families including.

American Psychological Association - You can search from here using "human development" as the search term and get a variety of relevant information.

Birds and Bees - Information on STDs, pregnancy, birth control, and abortion.

Brain Facts - Brain Facts is a 74-page downloadable primer on the brain and nervous system, published by SfN. Designed for a lay audience as an introduction to neuroscience.

Child Development - Good usable list of child developmental milestones

The Child Development Website - Month by month look at development, 1-36 months.

Go Ask Alice - Loads of questions and answers on all kinds of relationship, sexuality, and sexual health issues.

I Wanna Know - This site offers some information on STDs, basics about what's going on with your body, and advice on how to deal with peer pressure.

It's Your Sex Life - Lots of good information on teenage sexual health.

Kids Source On-Line - Information including articles on a variety of topics relevant to child raising including special needs children.

National Center for Kids Overcoming Crisis - Great site for parenting tips, preventing child abuse, tips on helping young people through crisis.

Parenting - Parenting newsletters from UW-Cooperative Extension.

Psych Links - 5000 links to psychology-based sites.

Respect and Protect - Website for teenagers put out by the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Sex Etc - By teens for teens; helps youth become sexually healthy people and avoid pregnancy and disease during their teenage years.

Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health, Chapter 3 - This is a good overview of theories of human development.

Teen Advice Online

Teen Pregnancy - This website has information for young people and adults who want to prevent teen pregnancy.

Teenwire - Great information on young men's and women's bodies, how not to have sex if you don't want it, safer sex, and dealing with breaking up. It also gives referrals to local clinics.

Children of Incarcerated Parents - Linked from the N. California Training Academy, you'll find a series of fact sheets useful both for yourself and for clients on a whole list of topics related to working with children who have incarcerated parents.

No Further Harm: What We Owe to Incarcerated Fathers, Boston Review, 2008. Good article about the complex issues related to being an incarcerated father.

Reaching Nonresident Fathers in the Child Welfare System: Understanding Male Help-Seeking Behaviors - Child Law Practice, Jan., 2009.

Working with Children with Parents in Prison. Practice Notes from N. Carolinas Child Welfare Resource Program. Includes topics like understanding and Supporting foster children with incarcerated parents, prison visitation basics.

National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated-Resource Links. This is a well organized, expansive list of resources.

Children of Prisons Library, NRCCFI. Helpful fact sheets on a variety of topics relevant to working with children of incarcerated parents.

Wisconsin Department of Children and Families: Kinship Care - Provides links to relevant state statutes, program/service information, forms and resource links.

Is Kinship Care Good for Kids?- Center for Law and Social Policy. Good couple of pages with data related to the effectiveness of kinship care. 2007.

Grandparents Raising Grandkids: Internet Resources.

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren - U.S. Government site with all kinds of information relevant to raising kin.

Generations United: Bibliography

ABA Center on Children and the Law - Summary of Some Key Changes to the Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) Enacted through the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act Amendments of 1996.

American Public Human Services Association

Child Welfare League of America

Flying Solo - The life management resource for divorce and aging issues.

Legal Information Institute - Cornell law school: Extensive access to collection of full legal documents including U.S. code, U.S. Constitution, rules of evidence, etc.

NACUA - This site has excellent links to a very wide variety of legal and government sites.

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges - Daily Update of News in Juvenile Justice.

National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Permanency Planning for Children (NCJFCJ) - Hot Links

Wisconsin Statutes and Annotations - Wisconsin Administrative Codes Table of Contents.  This is where you will find SFC, the Chapter on Social Work certification.

American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Includes fact sheets for families on a wide variety of topics including children and: suicide, bedwetting, sleep disorders, firearms, violence, moving, school, etc.

American Psychiatric Association - Site with excellent information listed under "public information". Subjects include a fact sheet series, families and children section, psychiatric medications, resources for general public, etc.

Internet Mental Health Links - This is an extensive list of mental health links divided by subject headings.

Mental Health Infosource - Good site with information about a wide variety of mental health issues, resources, publications, articles.

National Center for Kids Overcoming Crisis - Parenting tips, crisis lines, "24 Ways You Can Prevent Child Abuse," "7 Standards for Effective Parenting," 15 Ways to Help Your Kids Through Crisis."

National Attention Deficit Disorder Association - Good information, kid's area, websites, government information, etc.

National Institute of Mental Health - Excellent site for all kinds of information, including medications on mental health.

National Mental Health Information Center--Featured Publications: Children and Families -Link to much information on many topics including ADHD, autism in children, etc.

Psych Central - Dr. Grohol, Psychologist, created this one-stop index for psychology, support, and mental health issues, resources, and people on the Internet.

National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections - Valuable site with excellent materials on achieving permanence. Content on Permanecy and Concurrent Planning.

Concurrent Planning: What the Evidence Shows - Article from the Children's Bureau.

Practice Guide for Concurrent Permanency Planning - From the Minnesota Dept. of Human Services, an excellent practice guide on engaging for permanence, case planning, etc.

Wisconsin Continuous Permanency Planning Timeline

The Arc of the United States - Quality site for and by persons with mental retardation and their families.  Good page of links, fact sheets, etc.

Autism -Information on subgroups and related diseases, issues, interventions, siblings, links.

Blindness Resource Center - Links, resources, general information.

Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) - Research information, FAQ's, general information, links, family info.

Down Syndrome: Health Issues - General information, articles.  Written by pediatrician who has child with Down Syndrome.

Dyslexia Institute - This site has information on assessment, teaching, help for parents of child with dyslexia.  Good information.

Healthopedia - Links to hundreds of resources related to medical issues including disabilities, addiction, mental health, etc.

Learning Disabilities Online - Interactive site on learning disabilities for parents, teachers, children.

March of Dimes - Fact sheets, statistics, Frequently Asked Questions, links.

National Information Clearinghouse for Children Who Are Deaf-Blind  

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders - General information, FAQ's, fact sheets, health information.

New York Online Access to Health Information (NOAH) - Great site with lots of health information, including information on spinal and head injuries.

Practice Guide for Working with African American Families in the Child Welfare System The role of the caseworker in identifying, developing and supporting strengths in African American families involved in child protective services.

Spinal Cord Injury Information Network - Facts, stats, issues.

Tourette's Syndrome Information

United Cerebral Palsy Association (UCPA) - Research fact sheets, research center, general information about cerebral palsy.

US. Dept of Justice - This is the site for ADA information.

Child Welfare workers who are exhausted yet satisfied with their jobs: How do they do it?

Coping Strategies and Burnout Among Veteran Child Protection Workers

Job retention in child welfare: Effects of perceived organizational support, supervisor support, and intrinsic job value

When a Child Welfare Client Dies: An Agency Centered Perspective

Impact of Stressors on Front-Line Child Welfare Supervisors

Clinical Social Work Federation

George Warren School of Social Work resource page - Page links on just about every subject you could think of related to social work.

International Federation of Social Workers

Social Work Access Network - SWAN is a loose network of social work practitioners, academics, students and social welfare service users united in their concern that social work activity is being undermined by managerialism and marketisation, by the stigmatisation of service users and by welfare cuts and restrictions.

Social Work Cafe

Social Work Search Page - Links to various topics in the social work profession.

The New Social Worker - This journal provides an extensive list of Web sites relevant to social work.

WWW Resources for Social Workers

Effects of Traumatic Events on Children - This booklet by Dr. Bruce Perry, is designed to assist team members, e.g., parents, caregivers, teachers, and various professionals working with maltreated and traumatized children.

Helping Traumatized Children: A Brief Overview for Caregivers. By Dr. Perry, on the Child Trauma Academy website, http://www.childtrauma.org/.

Introduction to the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT). By Dr. Perry, provided at Child Abuse and Neglect Conference, 2009.

Applying Principles of Neurodevelopment to Clinical Work with Maltreated and Traumatized Children: The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics. By Dr. Perry, more comprehensive article. On Child Trauma website, http://www.childtrauma.org/.

The Child's Loss: Death, Grief, and Mourning. Dr. Perry addresses some of the key issues related to the child's complex set of reactions that often follow traumatic death. Helpful with understanding any grieving child. Very readable question and answer format. Linked from the Child Trauma Academy website and Scholastica.

Child Welfare Child Trauma Tool Kit. Downloadable materials designed to teach basic knowledge, skills, and values about working with children who are in the child welfare system and who have experienced traumatic stress. It also teaches how to use this knowledge to support children's safety, permanency, and well-being through case analysis and corresponding interventions tailored for them and their biological and resource families

Principles of Working with Traumatized Children. By Dr. Perry, brief article that would be helpful for any team member wanting to help a traumatized child. From Australian Dept. of Children and Families site, http://www.cyf.vic.gov.au/.

Maltreatment and the Developing Child: How Early Childhood Experience Shapes Child and Culture. Reasonably short and user friendly article by Dr. Perry. On Center for Children and Families in the Justice System website, http://www.lfcc.on.ca/index.htm

Reading List: National Child Traumatic Stress Network. These reading lists of research publications were compiled by experts in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. They include important recent work as well as classic books and articles on topics related to child traumatic stress by Network and other experts in the field.

Childhood Traumatic Grief Educational Materials. This document defines child traumatic grief and distinguishes it from normal childhood grief following the death. Some key features of child traumatic grief are discussed, along with examples of how it is similar to and different from normal grief. On National Child Traumatic Stress Network site, http://www.nctsnet.org/nccts/nav.do?pid=hom_main.

CDC Report: Effects of Childhood Stress on Health Across the Lifespan. Easy to read with key outcomes of ACE study explained. At Center for Disease Control website links on maltreatment, http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/childmaltreatment/index.html.

Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE), CDC. ACE Study is perhaps the largest scientific research study of its kind, analyzing the relationship between multiple categories of childhood trauma (ACEs), and health and behavioral outcomes later in life. On Center for Disease Control website, http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/ACE/.

Webcast of Dr Bruce Perry's November 2007 Presentation on brain development and maltreatment. This link takes you to the DCF home page for webcasts. The presentation is in four part, each linked separately.

Brain Facts. Brain Facts is a 74-page primer on the brain and nervous system, published by SfN. Designed for a lay audience as an introduction to neuroscience.