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Subject:   [fostercare] HELPFUL SITES FOR FOSTER PARENTS
 Date:  Fri, 5 Feb 1999 21:35:45 EST
 To:  Fostercare@onelist.com

Friends,
I hope all of you can print this and place a copy right next to your computer. This is published in the Foster Parents Newsletter by the Riverside County Department of Public Social Services here in California, but most of the information in here covers the Country.

The ones marked with an asterisk (*)  I have visited myself. The others I was unable to access, but hesitated to eliminate them from the list. A couple of these sites I could have spent the whole day on.

Good luck.

 Don Hallstrom

NOTE: Don, an avid foster parent in Riverside County, California, passed away in March, 2000. Thanks, Don, for caring!

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ABA Center on Children and the Law *
http://www.abanet.org/child/home.html
American Bar Assn. site is absolutely one  of the best sites you can imagine.
You can spend days on just this one site alone.

American Humane Association *
http://www.amerhumane.org
One of the oldest National Children's Organizations

American Professional Society on *
http://www.apsac.org
the Abuse of Children

Behavior Home Page      *
http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/behave/homepage.html
Education oriented but addresses our kid's needs.

Center for Disease Control   *
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/search/search.htm>
Search National  Center for Health Statistics

Child Welfare League of America  *
http://www.cwla.org
Another great nat.org.in forefront for children's issues.

Child Welfare Review Internet  *
http://www.childwelfare.com/kids/news.htm
Journal

Children Now    *
http://www.childrennow.org/
Advocacy, especially in California

Children's Defense Fund **
http://www.childrensdefense.org

Find California Code *
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html
Find the full current text of any California Law including the WIC 300 sections.

General Accounting *
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces160.shtml Office Reports
A suitable wealth of every report the GAO prepares for Congress. Always surprising what they have studied.

Hands Net *
http://www.handsnet.org
The original non profit network that derived
from "Hands Across America"

Justice Information Center  *
http://www.ncjrs.org
The Justice publications and resources tend to be very high quality.
Their printed materials and mailing lists are excellent to get into as
well.

Laws About Children     *
http://fatty.law.cornell.edu/topics/childrens_rights.html

National Center on Post  *
http://www.dartmouth.edu/dms/pt/RQ_List.html
Traumatic Stress Disorder

Rand Corporation Policy Reports on line *
http://www.rand.org
May not be useful, but interesting.

Riverside County Office of Education *
http://www.rcoe.k12.ca.us
A good stepping off place to the educational net.

Social Work On The Net *
http://www.sc.edu/swan
I want to keep you with us, but I can't keep this from you, it is a great web where you can meet more people like us. Register here and you'll be listed all over the world.

US Legislative Branch
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/legbranch/legbranch.html

Now I ask you, Did you ever think you would receive a list like this? Now aren't you glad you got on Mike's list? Good luck.

Don