Works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintain professional standards, and to advance sound social policies.
Ensures and enhances the quality of social work education for a professional practice that promotes individual, family, and community well-being, and social and economic justice.
Examines issues that relate to the work of social workers, including how to serve people who have multiple or complex needs and how public agencies and other structures deliver health and human services.
A scholarly organization which seeks to stimulate and facilitate the development, exchange, and application of scientific knowledge to questions of sociological relevance.
Provides important information for those entering or in the social work profession. Includes licensing procedures and requirements as well as the laws governing social workers in New York State.
Brings together diverse perspectives from the political, policy, advocacy and foundation communities to find genuine solutions to the economic hardship confronting millions of Americans.
The government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
Gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs, offers technical assistance overseas, and educates Americans on social and economic issues — to foster sound public policy and effective government.
Comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Ceased publication in 2012, but still has useful data.