Implementing a social enterprise intervention with homeless, street-living youths in Los Angeles

Social Work

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 103-112

  Ferguson, Kristin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeless youths; Mental health; Outreach; Social enterprise; Vocational training

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250716479     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/52.2.103     Document Type: Article

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