Youth Service Agencies: Promoting success for at-risk African American youth

Family and Community Health

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 1-15

  Kemper, Karen A ^b   Spitler, Hugh ^b   Williams, Eunice ^b   Rainey, Cheryl ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adolescence; Black; Program evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041153802     PISSN: 01606379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003727-199907000-00003     Document Type: Article

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