• Census Bureau
• Census Bureau’s Quick Facts (offers state-level demographic data)
• Census Bureau’s American FactFinder
• American Community Survey (offers community-level demographic data)
• Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KID COUNT (looks at trends in child well-being)
• Your state’s Department of Community and Economic Development
• National Association of Counties (offers county-level demographic data)
• USA Facts (provides data and reports on America’s population, government finances, and government’s impact on society)
• USA Spending (tracks federal spending to show how money is being used in communities across America)
• Legal Services Corporation's (LSC) 2019 By the Numbers: The Data Underlying Legal Aid Programs report (see also 2018 and 2017 reports)

• National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (offers data on high school benchmarks, college completion rates, and enrollment)
• National Science Foundation (conducts various surveys about education, employment, and statistics related to science and engineering)
• Community College Survey of Student Engagement (asks about institutional practices and student behaviors correlated with learning and retention)
• Child Trends (has reports and data on early childhood, education, and youth)
• National Information Center for Higher Education Policymaking and Analysis (provides data about higher education)
• Your state’s Higher Education Commissions
• Your state’s Higher Education Executive Officers
• National Center for Educational Statistics (provides statistics covering prekindergarten through graduate school)
• LINCS Adult Education and Literacy (provides data on evidence-based materials to help adult education practitioners and state and local staff improve programs)
• Reading is Fundamental (offers data on literacy and education)

• The Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse, established by the U.S. Department of Health Administration for Children and Families, conducts reviews of research on programs and services intended to provide enhanced support to children and families, including kinship navigation models. The Clearinghouse also makes their Handbook of Standards and Procedures available online.
• The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect provides high quality datasets, documentation, and technical support for foster care-related studies.
• The Children's Bureau collects case-level information from state and tribal Title IV-E agencies on all children in foster care and those who have been adopted with Title IV-E involvement. ACF publishes the annual AFCARS Report, which provides the most up-to-date national statistics on foster care and adoptions. See FY 2018's report (released October 2019). 
• The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System is a voluntary data collection system that gathers information from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico about reports of child abuse and neglect. The Children's Bureau publishes the annual Child Maltreatment report on data provided by the states. See 2017's report (released January 2019).
• The National Youth in Transition Database collects information about youth in foster care and those who have aged out of the foster care system. As of June 2019, the Children's Bureau has published six data briefs using findings from these surveys.
• Annie E. Casey Family Program's KIDS COUNT maintains data and statistics on the educational, social, economic, and physical well-being of children on local, state, and national levels.
• Child Trends has reports and data on early childhood, education, and youth, including databanks on foster care and maltreatment.
• National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel (NCCRC) has an interactive map with the latest civil right to counsel activities, the status of civil right to counsel law by case type (child welfare, paternity, guardianship, etc.), the efforts in which the NCCRC is involved, and the states where NCCRC has a presence in policy development.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (offers data on health and disease)
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (publishes public health data that is state-specific)
• The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and the National Legal Aid & Defender Association's memo, Advancing Civil Legal Aid and Medical-Legal Partnerships in VA Medical Centers 
• Your state’s Department of Health

• The U.S. Census Bureau reports the percentage of people without health insurance, organized by state.

• U.S. News & World Report measures how well states are meeting citizens’ health care needs and reports findings in the form of state rankings.

• The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) provides state-level health data; health data graphics and interactives; polling results; and other timely health information organized by topic.

• Bureau of Justice Statistics (runs the National Crime Victimization Survey, publishes data about courts, corrections, Native American justice statistics, and law enforcement)
• The Justice Index at the National Center for Access to Justice at Fordham Law School (has four subject matter indexes on access to justice)
• The Self-Represented Litigation Network's map gallery has several interactive maps, which include data on civil courts and disasters, among others
• The World Justice Project has released its 2019 Rule of Law Index. Among other things, the Index ranks 126 countries on Factor 7.1, “accessibility and affordability of civil justice.” On that factor, the U.S. tied for 99th with Mozambique, Uzbekistan, and Zambia
• National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel (NCCRC) interactive map (gives a 50-state view of: the latest civil right to counsel activities, the status of civil right to counsel law by type of case (child welfare, paternity, guardianship, etc.), the efforts in which the NCCRC is involved, or the states where NCCRC has a presence
• The Collateral Consequences Resource Center (CCRC) released a report documenting the number of laws passed in 2018 to reduce barriers to successful reintegration for people with a criminal record. The CCRC also drafts annual reports on new legislative developments, participates in court cases challenging specific collateral consequences, and provides recommendations and research in connection with policy reform efforts
• Legal Services Corporation's (LSC) 2019 By the Numbers: The Data Underlying Legal Aid Programs report (see also 2018 and 2017 reports)

• Your state’s WIOA plan
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (offers data on employment, job sectors, and wages)
• Bureau of Economic Analysis (offers data on county GDP, outdoor recreation, and healthcare)
• Your state’s Department of Labor
• Health Workforce Information Center (provides information on health workforce programs, data, research, and policy)

• The Urban Institute has an interactive map that uses credit bureau data and the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) to break down medical, student, auto and consumer debt by state and demographics. 

• The FTC’s Consumer Sentinel Network has a collection of interactive maps and other dashboards that show the types of fraud, identity theft, debt collection, and other consumer protection problems reported by states and large metropolitan areas. 

• The FTC also has an Explore Data page with updated statistics on fraud, identity theft, and other consumer protection problems reported in your state and metro area.

• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has data and resources on consumer-related topics, including consumer credit trends, consumer complaints by state, consumer well-being, and support for economically vulnerable consumers.

• The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) reports 2018 data on state court civil caseloads and other national trends in the State Court Caseload Digest.

• The National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel’s (NCCRC) maintains a comprehensive bibliography containing every law review article, study, report, paper, news story, and media piece they are aware of, sorted by subject. 

• The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP) has a collection of publications on key issues involving homelessness in the U.S., including legal manuals on maintaining access to education for children experiencing homelessness and fighting laws criminalizing homelessness, know-your-rights materials for families on education rights, and reports containing recommendations for improving housing security among vulnerable populations, an annual State Index on Youth Homelessness, and information on the criminalization of homelessness, which can quickly compound legal issues. 

• The Eviction Lab maintains an interactive map of evictions, rankings of states’ eviction policies, and spreadsheets of eviction data.
  The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness has homeless statistics by state and year.

Federal Housing Data

• Andrew Aurand, Vice President for Research at the National Low Income Housing Coalition, wrote an article called Using Federal Data Sources for Housing Advocacy. The article provides and overview and description of federal housing data that can be used to identify housing needs and support housing advocacy. Read the article here.
• The U.S. Census Bureau maintains a list of surveys and programs contributing to housing.

• The Census Bureau’s housing data paint a comprehensive picture of housing in the United States, including stats on housing affordability by demographic characteristic; the impact of policy changes on renters; housing patterns and vacancies; geographic mobility, and more. 

• American Housing Survey (AHS), sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 2019 data and interactive tools are available here.

• HUD developed an “affirmatively furthering fair housing” (AFFH) mapping tool to identify issues related to fair housing by state and jurisdiction. Mapping indicators include housing needs, demographic trends, disability, transportation, environmental, health, and more. 

• Data.gov (offers data, tools, and resources to conduct research, design data visualizations, and more)
• Education Resources Information Center (provides an online library of education research and information)
• What Works Clearinghouse (reviews existing research on programs, products, practices, and policies in education)

• For more information about civil legal aid messaging, communications, and story-telling, go to the Voices for Civil Justice and All Rise for Civil Justice websites. The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has collected client success stories.
• For a more comprehensive repository of legal aid related research, go to the National Legal Aid & Defender Association’s LegalAidResearch website.
• The American Bar Association has collected legal needs assessments.
• The Center for Victim Research is continually adding to their Research Syntheses on the state of the field for multiple victimization types and their Library which includes a public collection of over 1,000 resources.

• In October 2020, the Northwest Justice Project submitted comments for the DOJ OVW Task Force meeting on violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women. These comments provide model advocacy language for legal aid organizations serving AI/AN populations.

• On August 10th, 2020 David Kelly, Special Assistant to the Associate Commissioner at the HHS Children’s Bureau, delivered remarks about the imperative to stop confusing poverty with neglect and the critical role legal representation makes for families in the child welfare system at the National Center for State Court's (NCSC) Ensuring Justice in Child Welfare Virtual Summit. 
• On August 26th, 2020 Allison Green, the Legal Director at the National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC), testified before the Kansas Special Committee on Foster Care Oversight to highlight the growing bipartisan movement towards legal advocacy and the proven opportunities it presents to states prioritizing family and youth well-being. 

• Council for State Governments Clean Slate Clearinghouse, Reducing Barriers to Employment-Building Partnerships with Civil Legal Aid (The JGP Director Karen Lash and then Prince George’s County Local Workforce Development Board Executive Director Walter Simmons starts at about 14 minutes)

• National Legal Aid and Defenders Association (NLADA) and The JGP Project, Combating the Opioid Epidemic: How Civil Legal Aid Helps Those Affected by the Opioid Crisis

• Pro Bono Net, LawHelp Interactive Monthly Call: Title IV-D and Child Support (funding discussion starts at about 22 minutes)
• News You Can Use: Title IV-E Child Welfare Funding for Legal Representation Updates This webinar provides an overview of Title IV-E funding and U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Children’s Bureau policy that allows support for legal representation for children in foster care and their parents, as well as “candidates” for foster care.

• The U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration, Office of Regional Operations Webinar Archives, From Zero to 60: Medical-Legal Partnership Fundamentals & Strategies 

• The ABA Resource Center for Access to Justice Initiatives and The Justice in Government Project co-hosted a webinar on Civil Legal Aid Funding in the Time of COVID-19. The panelists included: Shubi Deoras (ABA Resource Center for Access to Justice Initiatives), Karen A. Lash (JGP), Jim Bamberger (Washington State Office of Civil Legal Aid), Patrick Cicero (Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network), and Stephanie Harris (Ohio State Legal Services Association).

The National Legal Aid & Defender Association publishes upcoming and archived webinars on a range of topics.