HDFS 447: Families and Poverty

This guide provides selected resources to help you develop the content for the Service Learning Paper assignment. The guide does not present a comprehensive listing of resources, but instead focuses on those resources that are most useful for this project. The librarian is available for literature search consultations - please use the Schedule Appointment button in the Librarian module to the left.

• Oregon's City and County Profiles (from PSU's Population Research Center)
  • County-level and State of Oregon profiles pull from the 2013-2017 and 2008-2012 American Community Survey and include key data: Population, Housing, Social, and Economic demographics
    • the links in the table of contents are clickable
  • City profiles from the most recent (2010) census (see section: Census 2010 Five-Page Profiles) include: Sex, Age, Race, Relationships in the Household, Group Living, Households, Housing Units
    • city names in the table of contents are clickable
• National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) State Profiles
  • Demographic Profiles (by state) - choose Oregon from State drop-down menu and choose the specific population from the Profile drop-down menu
• United States summary demographic data (QuickFacts United States)
  • data pulled from Census Bureau Population Estimate Program and is presented as national summary or is searchable for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more

Clearinghouses and Evidence Reviews for Social Benefit Programs

• “This document provides a listing and brief description of publicly accessible databases of research, evidence, and evaluations regarding social benefit programs and interventions. This document was developed by the CNCS Office of Research and Evaluation. This document should not be considered exhaustive or comprehensive.”
• PLEASE NOTE, The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), listed in the document, is no longer available.