LibGuides: Social Work: Relevant Websites

Department of Education
Homepage for the U.S. Department of Education
Indiana Department of Education Data Portal
A website that contains statistical reports for Indiana schools, including state testing scores, attendance and enrollment numbers, and financial data.
Indiana Department of Education School Social Worker Requirements
A website outlining the requirements to be a school service employee, including a school social worker.
School Report
School reports contain detailed information from over 89,000 public and private schools from kindergarten through twelfth grade. The school report data also contains information on 15,000 school districts and sub districts.
U.S. Department of Education State Contacts
Contact the department of education in your state, or the adult ed, arts, child care, higher ed, humanities, libraries, PTA, special ed, tech-prep, vocational rehabilitation, vocational-technical, or other education office in your state.

Feminist.com
"[T]he Internet’s definitive hub for resources and information dedicated to women's equality, justice, wellness and safety." Most useful to students of sociology are the Resources, News, and Activism tabs.
Guttmacher Institute
"Advancing sexual and reproductive health worldwide through research, policy analysis and public education."
IGLHRC: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
The official website of the IGLHRC, "a leading international organization dedicated to human rights advocacy on behalf of people who experience discrimination or abuse on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or expression." An excellent resource for discovering the state of LGBT rights internationally.
Kinsey Institute
"For more than 75 years, the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University has been the trusted source for scientific knowledge and research on critical issues in sexuality, gender, and reproduction."
LGTBQ+ VR Museum
"Disrupting historical gatekeeping and erasure of marginalised voices; we use VR to share stories and artifacts curated directly from the queer community."
NOW: National Organization of Women
"As the grassroots arm of the women’s movement, the National Organization for Women is dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights, and is the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States. NOW has hundreds of chapters and hundreds of thousands of members and activists in all 50 states and the District of Columbia."
ONE: National Gay and Lesbian Archive
Located just 20 miles from Whittier, the "ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives houses the world's largest research library on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,and Transgendered heritage and concerns." The archives here are international in scope, with a special focus on Los Angeles. ONE is open to the public.

The Foucault Pages (Ben Attias, CSUN)
Comprises links to other sites and essays about and by Foucault.
Global Social Theory
"This site is intended as a free resource for students, teachers, academics, and others interested in social theory and wishing to understand it in global perspective. It emerges from a long-standing concern with the parochiality of standard perspectives on social theory and seeks to provide an introduction to a variety of theorists and theories from around the world."
Marxist International Archive
Comprises e-texts of major Marxist theorists and literary critics. Users can browse by author or skip to a subject page to access writings by theme.
Social Theory Digital Collection
"Originally conceived in 2005, the database brings together an extensive range of influential writings representing the most important trends of sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day."

NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness Resources for People who have Experienced Trauma
Consists of different peer-led, online communities, therapists, and resources geared toward people who have experienced trauma.
Trauma-Informed Care Resources Guide
The Crisis Prevention Institute provides a free resource/guidebook for trauma-informed care. To access the resource, you must download it.
Trauma Informed Care for Schools
"resources on trauma-informed care for schools before, during, and after possible emergency events"
What is Trauma Informed Care?
Trauma-Informed Care Implementation Resouce Center's definition of Trauma Informed Care.