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Cybele Garcia Kohel

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Academic Video Online
More than 30,000 hours of streaming video covering a wide range of subject areas, Contains Social Work Online.

Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Full text of articles from some 215 journals dating as far back as 1995 and indexing and abstracts of over 625 periodicals dating as far back as 1983, nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes thousands of serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
Ethnic NewsWatch + Ethnic NewsWatch: A History This link opens in a new window
Provides a full-text collection of ethnic and minority press content from the U.S. and Canada offering additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Includes scholarly journals and working papers, trade journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, dissertations, and grass-roots publications primarily from minority presses. The companion database (Ethnic NewsWatch: A History) provides the historical foreground to the ethnic, minority, and native press content in Ethnic NewsWatch.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
Provides authoritative historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. Includes scholarly journal articles, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Online resource covering today's hottest social issues. Features viewpoint articles.

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PolicyMap
Web-based Geographic Information System covering the United States used to understand communities. With easy-to-use menus, PolicyMap is a GIS tool for non-GIS experts for those who need to visualize large amounts of data quickly and easily, often down to the census tract or block group level.
Statista
Statista provides statistical data on many topics including media, business, politics, society, technology and education. Sources include market reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. Data can be accessed by searching or browsing by industry, topic, country, digital market or infographic.
United States Census Data
Presents population, housing, economic, and geographic data from the United States Census Bureau. Data sets section offers tables for the Decennial Census, American Community Survey, Economic Census, and Population Estimates. (Formerly known as American Factfinder)

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Los Angeles County information
Information about Los Angeles County. Including county services and agencies.
State of California
Information about California, including state services, agencies and legislation.
Street Outreach Program Data Collection Study Final Report, April 2016
The final report of the Street Outreach Program Data Collection Study. A study focused on homeless youth. It was funded by Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families (ACF).
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Homelessness Statistics by State
Statistics gathered by the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness.
County Health Rankings and Roadmaps - California
An interactive map that will let you explore how the health or your county and factors that influence your health.
Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality monitors the trends, supports scientific analysis, develops evidence-based policy, disseminates data and research and trains scholars, policy analysts, and policymakers to address poverty and inequality..

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Professional Associations for Social Workers