Intervention for homeless and at-risk youth: Assessing youth and staff perspectives on service provision, satisfaction and quality

Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 210-225

  Heinze, Hillary J ^a   Jozefowicz Simbeni, Debra M Hernandez ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homelessness; Positive youth development; Service provision; Service satisfaction; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 72349090065     PISSN: 17450128     EISSN: 17450136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450120902890578     Document Type: Article

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