Service Engagement in Interventions for Street-Connected Children and Young People: A Summary of Evidence Supplementing a Recent Cochrane–Campbell Review

Child and Youth Care Forum

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 451-470

  Hossain, Rosa ^a   Coren, Esther ^a  

^a CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Homelessness; Interventions; Service engagement; Young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939938444     PISSN: 10531890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10566-014-9286-6     Document Type: Article

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