The Benefits Associated with Youth Mentoring Relationships

The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring: A Multiple Perspectives Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 163-187

  Blinn Pike, Lynn ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community leaders; Intergenerational mentoring; Mental health; Program evaluators; Youth mentoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889303327     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470691960.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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