Guides & Tutorials: Sociology: Internet Resources

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Official Resources & Statistics

United Nations System of Organisation - an structural overview of the United Nation Organisation and the related organizations..

United Nations: Global Issues - covering topics on Ageing, AIDS, Atomic Energy, Big Data for Sustainable Development Children, Climate Change, Decolonization, Democracy, Ending Poverty, Food, Gender Equality, Health, Human Rights, Migration, Peace and Security, Population, Refugees, Water, Youth. etc.

United nations: Databases - An index of UN databases .All contents are open for access and downloabable.

Hong Kong official resources

GovHK : Government Agencies - to find the websites of government bureaus, departments and related organisations of HKSAR
Centre for Health Protection
- Health Statistics
- Virtual AIDS Office of Hong Kong- an information portal presented by Department of Health on prevention of AIDS.
Hong Kong Statistics (Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong)
Social Welfare Departmen

Organizations related to government

Social Work Organisations in Hong Kong

Open Resources - online

THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER^®, the social work careers magazine, has been published since 1994. Each issue provides practical articles on social work students, social work ethics, field placement, practice issues, practice specialties, technology in social work, book reviews, and more.

Information for Practice- monthly digest on news & from around the world for social service professionals

MentalHelp .Net is an online resource of mental health and wellness education, intend to educate, catalog and provide mental health information that compliments, but does not replace, the medical advice of personal medical professionals.

Child Research Net - a trilingual (English/Chinese/Japanese) research site for the future of kids

Child Welfare Information Gateway - a service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to provide access to print and electronic publications, websites, databases, and online learning tools for improving child welfare practice

Professional Organisations

British Association of Social Workers
Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW-ACTS)
Clinical Social Work Federation (CSWF - USA) - Drug Alcohol Treatment Centers and Addiction Rehab Programs
International Federation of Social Workers(IFSW)
National Association of Social Workers (NASW) (U.S.)
World Health Organization 世界衛生組織
American Counselling Association
Hong Kong Social Workers Association 香港社會工作人員協會

Educational Institutions

Educational institutions

Centre for Civil Society and Governance, University of Hong Kong
The Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning (CUSUP), University of Hong Kong
Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong
Department of Government & International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University
Department of Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong
Department of Sociology & Social Policy, Lingnan University
Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong
Department of Social Work, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University
Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong
Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University
Department of Sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong
Social Sciences Research Centre, University of Hong Kong

Note: Monitor the upcoming Social Work conferences and events worldwide via the CONAL Conference Alert.