Creating Change From The Inside: Youth Development Within A Youth Community Organizing Program

Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 341-358

  Schwartz, Sarah ^a   Suyemoto, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

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EID: 84874225806     PISSN: 00904392     EISSN: 15206629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcop.21541     Document Type: Article

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