Resources in Social Work: Children, Youth, Families

Advocates for Children of New Jersey

Children's Bureau, November 6, 2014

Data by state, across states and more. Annie E. Casey Foundation

Create reports, tables from KIDS COUNT data.

This site contains federal and state adoption, foster care, and child maltreatment statistics and reports. An excellent resource!

Use this site to build custom charts, tables, by state, etc.

See State Profiles and Data Tools. The latter page includes data wizards which allow the user to build custom tables.

National trends and research on over 80 indicators of child and youth well-being are available-the information, including color graphics and tables, is easy to read.

The Children of Immigrants Data Tool presents data on a number of population groups of children defined by the children nativity and citizenship and the nativity, citizenship, and origin of their parents, such as children with immigrant parents, children with noncitizen parents, etc.

The Institute produces a wide range of resources on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health. There are statistics on adolescents. See the "Data Center" link in the top navigation bar.

Gateway to statistics found in these annual reports from the Department of Education: The Condition of Education, Digest of Education Statistics, High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States, Indicators of School Crime and Safety, and Projections of Education Statisti

The Children's Defense fund, an advocacy group, provides statistics on a range of areas that show how children are faring in the country as a whole and in individual states.

The NDACAN facilitates the secondary analysis of research data relevant to the study of child abuse and neglect.

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study is following a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000 (roughly three-quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents).

The National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) is part of The Urban Institute's Assessing the New Federalism (ANF) multi-year research project. Its purpose is to track the effects of recent federal policy changes decentralizing many social programs from the federal government to the states.