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WEB SITES OF INTEREST TO HEALTH CENTERS
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Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc. does not endorse, and is not responsible for the content of any of these links (which are all maintained by others). All of these links open in a separate window. If you try one of the links, you will leave the HAFCI web site, but the HAFCI web page will still be open in the original window.
www.asam.org
American Society of Addiction Medicine – physicians dedicated to the field of addiction medicine
www.freeclinic.net
Free Clinic Foundation of America – online support for free clinics starting out.
www.caade.org
California Association for Alcohol/Drug Educators – the mission of CAADE is to promote and support quality education in alcohol and drug studies.
www.utah.edu
The University of Utah
www.adp.ca.gov
California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs
www.dhs.cahwnet.gov
California Department of Health Services
www.dph.sf.ca.us
San Francisco Department of Public Health
http://bphc.hrsa.gov/homeless
US Dept. of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Care for the Homeless Program
www.sfccc.org
San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium – promoting and preserving community-based health care
www.ucsf-ahp.org
UCSF AIDS Health Project – one of the premier AIDS and mental health agencies in the United States
www.projinf.org
Project Inform is a national nonprofit, community based organization working to end the AIDS epidemic.
www.stopaids.org
The mission of STOP AIDS Project is to prevent HIV transmission among all gay and bisexual men in San Francisco, through multicultural, community-based organizing.
www.aids.org
Nonprofit AIDS.ORG is a leader in providing online AIDS education and prevention programs, and essential HIV resources.
www.alcoholics-anonymous.org
Alcoholics Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
www.ca.org
Cocaine Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from their addiction.
www.wsoinc.com
Narcotics Anonymous World Services – NA is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem.
www.helplink-sf.org
At HELPLINK, a trained information and referral specialist will help you find information on community resources, employment, housing, substance abuse treatment, and more.
www.rational.org
Rational Recovery
www.peele.net
Stanton Peele, Ph.D., is a social/clinical psychologist who has written widely on the issue of addiction.
www.anypositivechange.org
The Chicago Recovery Alliance, (CRA) is a racially and ethnically diverse group composed of people living with HIV and drug use.
www.harmreduction.org
Harm Reduction Coalition – harm reduction is a set of practical strategies that reduce negative consequences of drug use, incorporating a spectrum of strategies from safer use, to managed use to abstinence.
www.clinicians.org
Association of Clinicians for the Underserved – ACU is a nonprofit, trans-disciplinary organization of clinicians, advocates, and health care organizations united in a common mission to improve the health of America's underserved populations and to enhance the development and support of the health care clinicians serving these populations.
www.volunteersinhealthcare.org
Volunteers in Health Care (VIH) is a one-of-a-kind national resource center funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for organizations and clinicians caring for the uninsured.
www.diversityrx.org
Diversity Rx – promoting language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.
www.communityvoices.org
Community Voices – healthcare for the underserved
www.healthtogether.org
America’s Healthcare Together
www.nachc.com
National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc.
www.gao.gov
Full text access to
Government Accountability Office
reports, testimony, comptroller general decisions, other GAO publications
www.dhhs.gov
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – gateway to federal agencies under DHHS
http://cms.hhs.gov
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
www.healthfinder.gov
Health information sites maintained by federal, state, local governments; and universities, not-for-profit groups.
www.chcs.org
Center for Health Care Strategies
http://thomas.loc.gov
Federal legislative information (bills, committee reports, etc.)
www.house.gov
U.S. House of Representatives
www.senate.gov
U.S. Senate
www.ncsl.org
National Conference of State Legislatures
www.ama-assn.org
American Medical Association
www.health.gov/nhic
The National Health Information Center is a health information referral service.
www.cdc.gov
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.ahcpr.gov
Agency for Health Care Research and Policy (part of DHHS) – lead agency charged with supporting research designed to improve quality in health care.
www.nlm.nih.gov
National Library of Medicine – extensive collection of published medical information, coordinated by National Library of Medicine
www.ihs.gov
Indian Health Services – the federal health care program for American Indians and Alaskan Natives
www.samhsa.gov
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
www.kff.org
Kaiser Family Foundation – dozens of publications, fact sheets, reports, surveys on health policy and other topics. Detailed Medicaid information for 50 states and DC.
www.nga.org
National Governors Association
www.healthlaw.org
National Health Law Program – working for justice in health care for low income people
www.urban.org
Urban Institute – health care policy research center
www.nonprofits.org
Internet Nonprofit Center – contains information for and about nonprofits.
www.exemptlaw.com
Legal and tax answers for nonprofit organizations
www.familiesusa.org
Families USA – information on child health, managed care and Medicaid from a consumer prospective
www.nrharural.org
National Rural Health Association
www.guidestar.org
A national database of nonprofit organizations
www.genie.org
Information and resources for the nonprofit community.
www.childrensdefense.org
Children’s Defense Fund– reports on issues affecting children, including State Child Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP)
www.nasbo.org
National Association of State Budget Officers – state budget expenditures (TANF, Medicaid), Medicare info briefs, weekly updates on federal legislative activity
www.fda.gov
Food and Drug Administration
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