Comprehensive community initiatives: Principles, practice, and lessons learned

Future of Children

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 132-140

  Stagner, Matthew W ^b   Duran, M Angela ^a  

^a Program Officer for Policy   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD WELFARE; COMMUNITY CARE; POVERTY; REVIEW; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 0031403276     PISSN: 10548289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1602391     Document Type: Review

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3. This article is not intended to be a survey of all CCIs currently in operation nor does it include findings from all of the programs described.
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