Increasing opportunities for inner-city youth: The feasibility of an economic empowerment model in East Harlem and the South Bronx, New York

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 218-224

  Ssewamala, Fred M ^a   Sperber, Elizabeth ^a   Blake, Clair A ^b   Ilic, Vilma P ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic empowerment; Focus groups; Harlem; South Bronx; Suubi Uganda; Urban youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84455169588     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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