Book Links

CHAPTER 6. Social Work with Children and Youth

Child & Family Canada
http://www.cfc-efc.ca/

A unique Canadian public education website. Fifty Canadian non-profit organizations have come together under the banner of Child & Family Canada to provide quality, credible resources on children and families on an easy-to-navigate website. The library provides access to over 1,300 documents on child welfare.

Child Welfare League of Canada
http://www.cwlc.ca/

The CWLC is an organization active in Canadian policy, research and advocacy. The site contains an issue-specific search engine for those doing research in the child welfare area.

The Ontario Association of Children Aids Societies http://www.oacas.org/

The voice of child welfare in Ontario, dedicated to providing leadership for the achievement of excellence in the protection of children and in the promotion of their well-being within their families and communities.

Child Welfare Resource Centre
http://www.childwelfare.ca/

An on-line journal with articles on how social work can contribute to social justice. In part the goal of Critical Social Work is to assist in collectively recognizing the current potentials for social justice as well as the future possibilities. They propose that through dialogue there exists the possibility of refining our ideas about the individual and community, clarifying the relationship between interpersonal relations and institutional structures, and identifying actions that promote both individual and community well-being.