Do youth in out-of-home care receive recommended mental health and educational services following screening evaluations?

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1911-1918

  Petrenko, Christie L M ^a,b   Culhane, Sara E ^a   Garrido, Edward F ^a   Taussig, Heather N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational services; Foster care; Maltreatment; Mental health services; Out of home care; Screening evaluations

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052175370     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.05.015     Document Type: Article

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