Community Book Connection 2009 - 2010 A Long Way Gone

Issues

Resource Guide for A Long Way Gone - Includes contacts for: Counseling services, Psychological concerns, Post traumatic Stress, Victims of Crimes, Family Crisis Services, Grief Counseling, Loss of Newborn or Pregnancy, Illness and Health-Related Issues, Addictions, and Support Groups for People Affected by the Addiction of Others

Human Rights:

• Human Rights and Sierra Leone

• "State We're In" -Radio Netherlands link- Information on Sierra Leone and war crimes --chas taylor, rape/war victim speaking out about experience and importance of verdict in trial at Hague.

• Background on the country of Sierra Leone from the Advocates for Human Life.

• UN web site – very student friendly on what is going on in African countries such as Sierra Leone; includes voices of children as well as clips.

Humanitarian Law:

• American Red Cross Exploring Humanitarian Law - Exploring Humanitarian Law curriculum gives teachers easy-to-use materials to help students understand the rules governing war and their impact on human life and dignity.

Addiction:

• American Society of Addiction Medicine -http://www.asam.org/
  A medical specialty society of physicians dedicated to the treatment of addicted patients. Award-winning, user-friendly site with up-to-date listings of addiction medicine events, research, and clinical issues. Also, great links to other Addiction
• National institute of Drug Abuse - http://www.nida.nih.gov/index.html
  Includes articles on the Science of Addiction, and Drugs of Abuse information reports
• Heroin: Abuse and Addiction http://www.nida.nih.gov/ResearchReports/Heroin/Heroin.html
  Answers to commonly asked questions about heroin from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• National Institute on Drug Abuse Research Report Series: Cocaine Abuse and Addiction http://www.nida.nih.gov/ResearchReports/Cocaine/  Questions and answers about cocaine, covering topics such as forms of cocaine (including "crack" cocaine), the scope of cocaine abuse in the U.S., short- and long-term effects of cocaine use, medical complications...
• The Big Book Online, Fourth Edition http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/ The guide for those in "Alcoholics Anonymous" (now known commonly as "The Big Book") was first published in 1939. "The Big Book" is the "basic text" of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), and outlines the central tenets of AA.
• National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA)  http://www.casacolumbia.org CASA is a "national organization, which brings together ... all the professional disciplines needed to study and combat abuse of all substances -- alcohol, nicotine, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, performance enhancing drugs."

Victims of Crime

• The National Center for Victims of Crime  http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/Main.aspx The NCVC, an advocacy organization for crime victims since 1985, has worked with more than 10,000 organizations and criminal justice agencies serving millions of crime victims. The site provides resources to victims of violence.
• Terrorism and Crime Studies  Bibliographies and reports on topics such as organized crime, narcotics trafficking, future trends in terrorism, and the sociology and psychology of terrorism. From the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress (LOC). http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/terrorism.html
• Human Rights: Trafficking Around the World  http://democracy.america.gov/democracy/rights/ Highlights information contained in the 2008 "Trafficking in Persons Report," in which "countries are assessed by the standards outlined in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, the U.S. law that guides efforts to fight human traffic ...