Library: Social Work: Evidence-Based Practice Resources

Evidence-Based Resources

"Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a process in which the practitioner combines well-researched interventions with clinical experience and ethics, and client preferences and culture to guide and inform the delivery of treatments and services. The practitioner, researcher and client must work together in order to identify what works, for whom and under what conditions" -EBP is featured in the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics.

Environment + organizational context. EBP. "Evidence-based Social Work Practice." 2012. Accessed October 6, 2021.

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CINAHL Plus with Full-Text includes 150 evidence-based care sheets incorporates the latest evidence, statistics, research and references on a given topic. The references are ranked, using a coding matrix, according to the type of literature they represent (systematic reviews, meta-analysis, etc).

How to Find: Open CINAHL Plus with Full-Text and you can browse the list of Evidence-Based Care Sheets from the toolbar at the top of the page.
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Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development
Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development is a project within the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. We identify, recommend, and disseminate programs for youth, families and communities that, based on scientific evaluations, have strong evidence of effectiveness.
Campbell Collaboration
The Campbell Collaboration is an international social science research network that produces high quality, open and policy-relevant evidence syntheses, plain language summaries and policy briefs.
Evidence Based Practice & Policy Online Resource Training Center
The EBPP Online Center’s broad goal is to promote evidence based practice and policy in social work. The EBPP Online Center provides training materials, publications, and other resources to aid practitioners from a variety of helping professions in the process of formulating sound professional judgments that necessarily precede, shape, and direct thoughtfully selected assessments and interventions.
Evidence-Based Practice for the Helping Professions
Resource for social workers who want to learn about EBP and how to conduct a search of evidence.
Laura & John Arnold Foundation (previously Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy)
LJAF develops and supports initiatives that encourage governments and nonprofit organizations to help build the evidence base for social interventions and to consider reliable evidence as one of the primary factors in their decisions. The goal is to ensure that limited resources are spent wisely on programs that produce meaningful, lasting improvements in people’s lives.
National Association of Social Workers Evidence-Based Practice Research Guide
Resources compiled by the NASW on evidence-based practice.
National Institute for Health & Care Excellence
Evidence search helps you make better, faster evidence-based decisions by bringing together evidence on health, drugs and technologies, public health, social care, and healthcare management and commissioning in one place.
SAMHSA Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center
SAMHSA is committed to improving prevention, treatment, and recovery support services for mental and substance use disorders. The Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center provides communities, clinicians, policy-makers and others with the information and tools to incorporate evidence-based practices into their communities or clinical settings.
Social Care Institute for Excellence Evidence-Based Practice Resources & Services
SCIE improves the lives of people of all ages by co-producing, sharing, and supporting the use of the best available knowledge and evidence about what works in practice.
Social Programs That Work
This site seeks to identify those social programs shown in rigorous studies to produce sizable, sustained benefits to participants and/or society, so that they can be deployed to help solve social problems. This site is administered by the Arnold Ventures’ Evidence-Based Policy team. Arnold Ventures’ core objective is to improve lives by investing in evidence-based solutions that maximize opportunity and minimize injustice.