Project Employ: Engineering hope and breaking down barriers to homelessness

Work

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 241-252

  Phillip Muñoz, Jaime ^a   Reichenbach, Diana ^a   Hansen, Anne Marie Witchger ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community programming; Community university partnership; Supported employment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BUDGET; COMMUNITY CARE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMPLOYMENT; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTIVATION; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SELF ESTEEM; SKILL; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REHABILITATION, VOCATIONAL; SOCIAL PROBLEMS;

EID: 26044445545     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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