Services to homeless students and families: The mcKinney-Vento Act and its implications for school social work practice

Children and Schools

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-44

  Hernandez Jozefowicz Simbeni, Debra M ^a   Israel, Nathaniel ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Homelessness; Mckinney Vento; School social work practice; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747847516     PISSN: 15328759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cs/28.1.37     Document Type: Article

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