Towards a delivery system of services for rural homeless youth: A literature review and case study

Child and Youth Care Forum

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 87-102

  Skott Myhre, Hans A ^a   Raby, Rebecca ^a   Nikolaou, Jamie ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Best practice; Programming for homeless youth; Rural homeless youth; Rural service delivery for youth; Youth homelessnes

Indexed keywords

EID: 41349107760     PISSN: 10531890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10566-008-9052-8     Document Type: Article

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