Promoting engagement: An organizational study of volunteers in community resource centres for children

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 651-678

  Reitsma Street, Marge ^a   Maczewski, Mechthild ^a   Neysmith, Sheila ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0034238982     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0190-7409(00)00106-7     Document Type: Article

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