Someone to watch over me: Mentoring programs in the after-school lives of children and adolescents

Organized Activities As Contexts of Development: Extracurricular Activities, After School and Community Programs

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 419-435

  Rhodes, Jean ^a   Spencer, Renee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 37649021442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410612748     Document Type: Chapter

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