WRIT 340: Bowers and Murray: Background Sources

From the U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services. Reports, databases and demographics on topics from prevention to permanency, including child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption.

These resources provide State and national data on the number of children in the child welfare system, trends in foster care caseloads, and well-being outcomes.

The resource represents an extensive collection of NIMH's best statistics on the prevalence, treatment, and costs of mental disorders

From Dept. of Justice, 2006. Presents estimates of the prevalence of mental health problems among prison and jail inmates using self-reported data on recent history and symptoms of mental disorders.

Links to statistics related to numerous topics.

Information and data about healthcare coverage in the U.S.

Robust site about healthcare reform and the Affordable Healthcare Act.

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. For 3 decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to encourage collaborations across communities and sectors, empower individuals toward making informed health decisions, and measure the impact of prevention activities.

From the Department of Homeland Security.

Census information of foreign born population.

Use this mapping database to pull data from the Census, including info on immigrant population.

Statistics on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government

This site summarizes U.S. statistics about drug-related crimes, law enforcement, courts, and corrections from Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and non-BJS sources.

Information on many aspects of juvenile justice, including sentencing, recidivism and prevention.

The OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book (SBB) enables users to access online information via OJJDP's Web site to learn more about juvenile crime and victimization and about youth involved in the juvenile justice system.

Data from the Association of Religion Data Archives

Public Law 94-521 prohibits us from asking a question on religious affiliation on a mandatory basis; therefore, the Bureau of the Census is not the source for information on religion. Some statistics on religion can be found in the Statistical Abstract of the United States, the section on Population.

Information about the LGBT population from the Williams Institute, a national think tank focusing on sexual orientation, gender identity law and public policy.

Demographic data collected by the Census.

Social Explorer allows users to visually display demographic data in the U.S. from 1790 through the present at a variety of geographic levels, create reports, maps and animations that can be downloaded.

Healthy City provides data and mapping tools to help you build a better community.

Web-based mapping application enables non-technical users to quickly create thematic maps and reports/tables using extensive demographic, social, business and marketing data.

Provides access to statistical information produced by the Federal Government either by agency name, by subject or by state.

This database provides fast and easy access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, states, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations.

Welcome to DataLA, the open data portal for the City of Los Angeles.

Info on local neighborhood councils and local government, like city council reps.

Access maps with different information, including boundaries for historic zones, like Pico-Union and University Park.

This re­gion­al view is your portal to in­di­vidu­al maps and stat­ist­ics for 158 cit­ies and un­in­cor­por­ated places and 114 neigh­bor­hoods with­in the city of Los Angeles. In ad­di­tion, there are maps of 42 un­in­cor­por­ated areas that we have col­lapsed in­side of ad­ja­cent cit­ies.

Contains encyclopedias and reference books in a variety of subjects.

The Core Collection brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.

Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.