Navigating between rigour and community-based research partnerships: Building the evaluation of the uniting our nations health promotion program for FNMI youth

Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 13-25

  Crooks, Claire V ^a   Snowshoe, Angela ^a   Chiodo, Debbie ^a   Brunette Debassige, Candace ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Thames Valley District School Board   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aboriginal youth; Community based research partnerships; Health promotion; Program evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884616978     PISSN: 07133936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7870/cjcmh-2013-016     Document Type: Article

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