Shared Services Network

Community Development Sites

Community Toolbox
In the "Tools" section, you will find practical guidance for improving community health and development. There are over 3,000 downloadable pages of specific, skill-building information on over 150 community topics.

Team Florida

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Research and Evaluation Sites

American Educational Research Association
AERA is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.

Annie Casey Foundation
The Foundation's Web site seeks to provide an ever-growing and interactive audience with updates on our initiatives, the full text of evaluations and reports, and data on the well-being of children. Includes Kid’s Count information; state-by-state and national indicators of child well-being are now available through the interactive online database where you can view state profiles, graphs, maps, and rankings, and download raw data.

ERIC Database
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free. ERIC is moving forward with its modernization program, and has begun acquiring materials for addition to the database.

Search Institute
Search Institute is an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization whose mission is to advance the well-being of adolescents and children by generating knowledge and promoting its application. Search Institute provides leadership for Healthy Communities - Healthy Youth, a national initiative that seeks to motivate and equip individuals, organizations, and their leaders to join together in nurturing competent, caring, and responsible children and adolescents. This mission is accomplished through research, evaluation, resource materials, training, technical assistance, and networking opportunities based on Search Institute's framework of developmental assets.

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Education Sites

Florida Department of Education - Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services

The Florida Education and Training Placement Information Program (FETPIP)
The Florida Education and Training Placement Information Program (FETPIP) is a data collection system that obtains follow-up data on former students and others. The information includes employment, continuing post-secondary education, military, public assistance participation, and incarceration data.

National Educational Service
The National Educational Service provides tested and proven resources to help those who work with youth create safe and caring schools, agencies, and communities where all children succeed.

US Department of Education
This web offers an ever-growing collection of information about the Department, including their initiatives and priorities, grant opportunities, offices, publications, and research and statistics. Visit the news page for the latest developments, including press releases, speeches, and additions to the web site.

Council for Exceptional Children
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted. CEC advocates for appropriate governmental policies, sets professional standards, provides continual professional development, advocates for newly and historically underserved individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice.

University of South Florida

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Legislative and Government Sites

My Florida
This site contains various state, county, and local government links.

Florida Statutes and Constitution
This site provides electronic copies of the Florida Statutes and Constitution. You may also search the statutes by keyword using their indexing system.

Online Sunshine — The Florida Legislature
This site is the Official Guide to the State of Florida Legislature.

THOMAS — US Congress on the Internet
This website contains legislative information on the Internet. You can search the current congress for text of bills by bill number or by word/phrase.

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Juvenile Justice Sites

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
The OJJDP Web site is designed to provide information and resources on both general areas of interest about juvenile justice and delinquency including conferences, funding opportunities, and new publications and the comprehensive strategy as a framework for communities to combat youth crime.

Justice Information Center
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is one of the most extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice in the world, providing services to an international community of policymakers and professionals. NCJRS is a collection of clearinghouses supporting all bureaus of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. It also supports the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Center for Study and Prevention of Violence
Center for Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) has a threefold mission. First, the Information House serves to collect research literature and resources on the causes and prevention of violence and provides direct information services to the public by offering topical searches on customized databases. Second, CSPV offers technical assistance for the evaluation and development of violence prevention programs. Third, CSPV maintains a basic research component through data analysis and other projects on the causes of violence and the effectiveness of prevention and intervention programs.

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