The Social Work Podcast
- The Social Work Podcast
Provides information on all things social work, including direct practice (both clinical and community organizing), research, policy, education... and everything in between.
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Career Exploration & Preparation
- LearningExpress PrepStep for Colleges This link opens in a new window
Practice tests and computer basics. LearningExpress PrepSTEP for Colleges: Core Math, Science, English, Computer, and College Success Skills; High School Equivalency, Placement, and ACT-SAT; Test Preparation; Career Preparation; Recursos Para Hispanohablantes. - Ferguson's Career Guidance Center This link opens in a new windowProvides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, and more than 55,000 career resource entries.
- Occupational Outlook Handbook This link opens in a new windowThe Occupational Outlook Handbook provides information to people making decisions about their future work lives, including training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, and working conditions in a variety of occupations.
Professional Organizations
- NOHS
The National Organization for Human Services (NOHS) is a nonprofit organization representing Human Service practitioners, educators, students and future Human Service Professionals. NOHS works to support all Human Service Professionals in our primary purpose to assist individuals and communities to function as effectively as possible in all major domains of living. - NHSA
The National Human Services Assembly (National Assembly) is a leading voice in the human service sector and promotes collaboration among engaged organizations to advance the collective power, knowledge, strategy, and systems that build well-being within individuals and our communities. - NASW
Founded in 1955, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is the largest membership organization of professional social workers in the world. NASW works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintain professional standards, and to advance sound social policies.
Books and Article Databases from Oakton Library
101 Careers in Social Work by Call Number: CAREER. HV10.5 .R58 2015 (DPC)ISBN: 9780826129055Publication Date: 2014
Careers in Human Services by Call Number: CAREER. HV10.5 .C39 2015 (DPC)ISBN: 9781619257788Publication Date: 2015
Collaborative Family Work: A Practical Guide to Working with Families in the Human Services by ISBN: 9781000256512Publication Date: 2020
Responding to Domestic Violence: The Integration of Criminal Justice and Human Services by Call Number: HV6626.2 .B89 2017 (DPC)ISBN: 9781483365305Publication Date: 2015
Scaling Up: The Convergence of Social Economy and Sustainability by ISBN: 1771990236Publication Date: 2016
- O.W.L.
O.W.L. is your Oakton Library catalog and discovery service for books, articles, journals, and multimedia.
- Academic Search Ultimate EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with around 10,000 full-text periodicals - of which more than 9,000 are peer-reviewed journals.
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowEach issue examines a single "hot" topic with comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Includes charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts.
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new windowDatabase of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote critical-thinking skills. It contains reference book titles, pro and con viewpoint articles, and a variety of periodicals, podcasts, reviewed Web links, images, statistical tables, charts, and graphs.
- Social Problems -- Oxford Journals This link opens in a new windowSocial Problems presents scholarly articles offering critical perspectives on contemporary social issues as well as influential sociological findings and theories that have the ability to help us better understand and deal with our complex social environment.
- SocINDEX Full Text EBSCO This link opens in a new windowProvides more than 860 full-text titles including core sociology peer-reviewed journals.