Data are your friends: Child welfare agency self-evaluation in Los Angeles county with the Family to Family initiative

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 24, Issue 6-7, 2002, Pages 471-484

  Webster, Daniel ^a   Needell, Barbara ^a   Wildfire, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of North   (United States)

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EID: 0036099476     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0190-7409(02)00197-4     Document Type: Article

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