Homeless children: Needs and services

Child and Youth Care Forum

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 197-210

  Hicks Coolick, Anne ^a   Burnside Eaton, Patricia ^a   Peters, Ardith ^a  

^a KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeless children; Homeless shelters; McKinney Act; Staff training

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543066967     PISSN: 10531890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024112015196     Document Type: Article

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