Child Welfare Information Gateway
Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. Visit often for the latest on a wide range of topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption.

Contact:
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Children's Bureau/ACYF
1250 Maryland Avenue, SW
Eighth Floor
Washington, DC 20024
Ph: 800-394-3366 or 703-385-7565 / Fax: 703-385-3206
Email:info@childwelfare.gov
Website:http://www.childwelfare.gov/index.cfm

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National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
NASW Press, a dissemination arm of NASW, is a leading scholarly press in the social sciences. It serves faculty, practitioners, agencies, librariers, clinicians, and researchers throughout the United States and abroad. NASW Press delivers professional information to more than 250,000 readers through its scholarly journals, books, and reference works.

Contact:
750 First St., N.E., Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20002-4241
Ph: 800-638-8799; 202/408-8600
Fax: 202/336-8310
Website:
http://www.naswpress.org/

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National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)
NCADI is the largest repository of a substance abuse treatment and prevention information in the country. This federal clearinghouse disseminates information from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). NCADI is the national resource for latest information - over 450 items including fact sheets, booklets, posters, videotapes, audiotapes, monographs, and magazines on all aspects related to alcohol and other drugs of abuse. It also designs, implements and evaluates innovative knowledge transfer and communications strategies. Most items are free of charge; a few have a cost recovery fee. Quite a few items are available in full form on their website.

Contact:
P.O. Box 2345,
Rockville, MD 20847-2345
800-729-6686; 301-468-2600
Website:
http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/

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National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth (NCFY)
The National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth (NCFY) is a central source of information on youth and family policy and practice. NCFY was established by the Family and Youth Services Bureau; Administration on Children, Youth and Families; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NCFY produces technical assistance publications on youth and family programming, manages an Information Line through which individuals and organizations can access information on youth and family issues, and sends materials for distribution at conferences and training events.

Contact:
P.O. Box 13505
Silver Spring, MD 20911-3505
Ph: (301) 608-8098 / Fax: (301) 587-4352

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The National Dropout Prevention Center/Network
The National Dropout Prevention center publishes a variety of resources to assist edutators and other practitioners concerned about youths at risk. Resources at the Center include a quarterly newsletter, a searchable database, publications, and a fle for cunsultants and speakers.

Contact:
The National Dropout Prevention Center/Network
Publications Department
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-5111
Ph: 864/656/2599/ Fax: (864)656-0136
E-mail:
ndpc@clemson.edu
Website:http://www.dropoutprevention.org/

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National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY)
NICHCY is the national information and referral center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues for families, educators, and other professionals. Special focus is given to children and youth (birth to age 22). NICHCY also provides other services such as: personal responses to questions on disability issues, including specific disabilities, early intervention, special education, family issues, legal issues, Individual Education Programs, and much more; referrals to other organizations and agencies, including national and state disability groups, regional and state organizations, professional associations, information centers, parent groups, and advocacy groups; information searches of NICHCY's Databases and Library; and technical assistance to parent and professional groups.

Contact:
Box 1492
Washington, DC 2013-1492
Ph:800/695-0285 Fax: 202/884-8200
Website:
http://www.nichcy.org

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National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) conducts and supports research nationwide on mental illness and mental health, including studies of the brain, behavior, and mental health services. NIMH is a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the principal biomedical and behavioral research agency of the United States Government. NIH is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIMH is dedicated to improving the mental health of the American people; fostering better understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of mental and brain disorders; and preventing mental illness.
NIMH offers a variety of publications to help the general public gain a better understanding of mental disorders. The following publications offer an array of information, written in easy-to-understand language, on mental health and mental disorders. Most of the publications are free and can be downloaded from their website, as well.

Contact:
NIMH Information Resources and Public Inquiries
5600 Fishers Lane, Rm 7C-02
Rockville, MD 20857
Ph: 301-443-4513 / Fax: 301-443-4279
Website:
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/

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