Additional Resources
Direct Service Needs
Federal Government
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Research Data
- National Institutes on Health
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- New Guide for Communities to Assess Local Drug Problems
- Health Care Financing Administration
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- U.S. Bureau of Census Home Page
- U.S. Statistical Abstract
- Income Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Census
- Poverty Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Census
- Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, U.S. Bureau of the Census
- National Science Foundation
State Government
- State of Ohio
- Ohio Department of Job & Family Services (ODJFS)
- Labor Market Information Division of ODJFS
- Office of Criminal Justice Services, State of Ohio
- Ohio Department of Education
Cleveland-area resources
- NeighborhoodLink
- Northern Ohio Data & Information Service (NODIS)
- City of Cleveland Government
- Cuyahoga County Government
- Index to Various Cleveland and County Organizations
- Libraries in University
- Circle
- Cleveland Public Library
- CLEVNET Library Cosortium of Northeast Ohio
Other resources
- Government Information Sharing Project
- Scholars’ Lab (containing the former Geospatial and Statistical Data Center)
- Institute for Research on Poverty
- The Institute on Race and Poverty
- Joint Center for Poverty Research
- Coalition on Human Needs
- W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
- Economic Success Clearinghouse/WIN
- Research Forum on Children, Families and the New Federalism
- The Urban Institute
- The Loka Institute
- The Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program
- The Annie E. Casey Foundation: KIDS COUNT Data
- The Institute for Child and Family Policy at Columbia University
- World Wide Web Resources for Social Workers
Helpful Tools
- SurveyGizmo (survey software tool the Center uses)