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Guide picks
If you have found our About.com site, you will be interested in finding other sites and communities of social workers in cyberspace.

Chat Site
Hosted by Susan Mankita, this site is open to non-AOL members. Scheduled chats are listed.

E-Mail Discussion Lists
From Colorado State University - listserves for social workers. A variety of lists to subscribe to.

Ed Gerity's OnLine Social Work
Its blinding yellow, but social worker Ed Gerity, provides a useful summary of ways that the Internet can enhance social work practice.

En Espanol
Trabajo Social en la RED es una comunidad virtual de trabajadores sociales de habla hispana, y de profesionales de la acción social en general.

Grassroots Search
From Andrews University in Michigan, a library of links. Use their handy search feature.

Internet Detective
An interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of Internet resources.

Mental Health Net Social Work Resources
Listing of resources, sites and newsgroups for social workers.

Mental Health On Line Resources
From your About Social Work Guide, additional on-line communities with a mental health focus.

Message Boards and Discussion Forums
From Virtual Social Work, comes a great listing of social work, corrections, and mental health discussion boards.

Netiquette
A great resource for those new to interacting on the Internet, corresponding via e-mail or posting on Forums. Good material for those teaching the subject.

Michigan Social Work Connection
Michigan Social Work Connection is an on-line clearinghouse resource center by social workers for social workers, social work organizations, and social work related entities for the promotion of the social work field and all its participants. The site contains job listings.

Social Science Information Gateway
A UK resource leading you to a wide range of information including social work, social welfare, sociology and health.

Social Work Access Network
SWAN is a hub for research links, listserves, and chat.

Social Work E-Newsletters
From onhealth.com a listing of social work e-newsletters.

Social Work Gateway
From the UK, an excellent collection of resources for the social worker.

Substance Abuse Professional Listservs
From Join Together Online,  a comprehensive listing of substance abuse related e-mail lists.

Surfing Social Work in New Zealand
This is a site for practicing social workers, social work students. It's purpose is to faciliate the users access to social work resources on the WWW. The site is also the first site designed specifically with the needs of social workers from Aotearoa New Zealand in mind.

Virtual Social Work Best of the Net
A very well designed and informative site from the UK.

What are Net Communities?
From Business Week, an overview article on the phenomenon of Internet communities.

Wing of Madness Depression Community
This is one of the oldest depression websites on the web. This website is about clinical depression. It addresses not the "down" mood which we all get from time to time and which leads us to say, "I'm depressed," but the often debilitating illness which affects one in five people, children as well as adults. Information for professionals, definitions as well as self-help and support is available.

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