Making a Difference: Evaluating the Girls in the Game (GIG) After-School Program

Journal of Early Adolescence

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 104-130

  Bohnert, Amy M ^a   Ward, Amanda K ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

after school programming; early adolescence; females; health; minority urban youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871114535     PISSN: 02724316     EISSN: 15525449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272431612466174     Document Type: Article

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