Social Work Research Guide

The toolkit focuses on "opportunistic experiments (OEs)," or randomized control trials (RCTs) to study the effect of an initiative, program change, or new policy that an agency is planning to implement. It looks at the various types of OEs, their characteristics, programs that are well-suited to experimentation, case study examples, and how to implement them.

Campbell systematic reviews follow structured guidelines and standards for summarizing the international research evidence on the effects of interventions in crime and justice, education, international development, and social welfare.

"The primary goal of this website is to provide a searchable database of programs that can be utilized by professionals that serve children and families involved with the child welfare system." E.

Updated regularly, this database contains the fulltext of systematic reviews of health care topics, including many that are related to social work practice.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Scroll down and see the links for "Mental Health Conditions and Substance Abuse," "Older Adults," and "Violence, Trauma."

"The EBBP.org project creates training resources to help bridge the gap between behavioral health research and practice."

"The Resource Center contains a collection of science-based resources and is part of SAMHSA’s new comprehensive approach to identify and disseminate clinically sound and scientifically based policy, practices, and programs." (The National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP) was phased out.)

NGC is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. It is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

"This site seeks to identify those programs found in rigorous studies to produce sizable, sustained benefits to participants and society."