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SWK450 - Social Welfare Policies and Services - Dr. Barrick
This guide has been created to help you find information concerning important social welfare legislation and policies. It includes sources for identifying the primary documents of the legislative and legal processes as well as important resources for understanding the legislation and policies and exploring their implication for social welfare policies and programs.
An updated version of the standard, comprehensive encyclopedia to social work. This version is revised on a regular basis and includes enhanced bibliographies.
Search this site by your law/act name. When available, CRS reports will provide a very helpful overview of the bill, its legislative history, and other aspects.
Searching on the title of your law or the public law number (i.e. 113-4) is a good starting point for key resources on your law. Topic searching will also identify a wider range of research materials.
This is our comprehensive news database. This will be especially important for those having trouble finding any journal literature about your law. Try searching the title of the act, in quotation marks - for example: "hate crimes prevention act".
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Westlaw is one of our two extensive legal databases and collections. It includes key resources from the legislative history of the acts as well as an extensive collection of law journals. Watch a brief video showing how to look up information by Public Law number.