The Bean Trees
Selected Web Resources
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Adoption
- The Adoption History Project – excellent web site from Dept. of History, University of Oregon.
- Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute – original research
- Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) – Tribal Court Clearinghouse
- Transracial and Transcultural Adoption – factsheet
- Child Welfare League of America – adoption factsheet
- Adopting – adoption.org
Cherokee Nation
- Indian Country History - PBS
- Trail of Tears – National Park Service
- Museum of the Cherokee Indian
- Center for World Indigenous Studies
- Cherokee Heritage Center
Child Abuse and Neglect
- CASA of Atlantic and Cape May Counties – Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children
- CASA of Atlantic & Cape May Counties – Facebook page
- Child Maltreatment 2008 – statistics and research
- Child Maltreatment – World Health Organization
- National Indian Child Welfare Association
- LONGSCAN: Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect
- Child Care Aware
- Child care – U.S. Government web portal
- Child Care: MedlinePlus
- National Network for Child Care
- Child Care in New Jersey – Department of Human Resources
- National Child Care Information and Technical Assistance Center
- A Guide to the Business of Babysitting
Child Development
- CDC – Child Development
- Tuft’s University Child and Family Web Guide
- Child Trends – Social Science Research
- Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
- Developmental Milestones - University of Michigan Health Systems
- Department of Children and Families – State of NJ
- Atlantic County - Children’s Health
- Cape May County – Human Services
Failure to Thrive Syndrome
- Failure to Thrive - Medline
- American Academy of Pediatrics – Clinical report on FTT (pdf)
- American Family Physician article on Failure to Thrive
- Failure to Thrive: Miscellaneous Disorders in Infants and Children: Merck Manual Online
- National Child Traumatic Stress Network
- Maternal deprivation syndrome
Government Oppression
- Class and indigenous roots of the Guatemalan revolution
- Guatemala Document Project - National Security Archive, George Washington University
- Political Database of the Americas – Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown University
- Genocide - Guatemala – Pledge the Peace Union – UK
- Rigoberta Menchu – Guatemalan activist; Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Rigoberta Menchu – YouTube video
Human Rights
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights – United Nations
- Human Rights Watch
- United for Human Rights - excellent web site for students and educators
- Organization of American States – Human rights
- Human Rights– entry from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- U.S. Department of State – Human Rights
- International Human Rights Law – The American Society International Law
Immigration
- Immigration – Cornell University Legal Information Institute
- Arizona Immigration Law – SB1070 – full text of Senate Bill (pdf)
- Center for Comparative Immigration Studies – University of California, San Diego
- Center for Immigration Studies
- National Immigration Law Center
- Immigration in the United States – pathfinder from ipl2 special collections
- AILA – American Immigration Lawyers Association
Poverty
- Community FoodBank of NJ – southern branch
- Poverty in America
- U.S. Census Bureau - Poverty
- Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart – features a Living Wage Calculator
- The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America – case studies
- National Center for Child Poverty
- Poverty in New Jersey – Legal Services of New Jersey
Refugees
- The UN Refugee Agency
- A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City – Doctors without Borders
- Refugee Health Information Network – Multilingual information
- Forced Migration Online – wonderful selection of resources regarding refugees and displaced persons
- National Immigration Forum
- Amnesty International
Sanctuary Movement
- New Sanctuary Movement
- Religion Link – The New Sanctuary Movement: Protecting and Welcoming
- Migration Information Source
- Social Justice News
- Oregon New Sanctuary Movement
- New Sanctuary Movement - Philadelphia
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