The mentoring factor: Evaluation of the across ages' intergenerational approach to drug abuse prevention

Child and Youth Services

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 77-99

  Taylor, Andrea S ^a   Losciuto, Leonard ^a   Fox, Margaretta ^b   Hilbert, Susan M ^a   Sonkowsky, Michael ^c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b School District of Philadelphia ^*  (United States)

^c Dental School of Philadelphia   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug use; Intergenerational; Mentoring; Prevention; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 85023935184     PISSN: 0145935X     EISSN: 15452298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J024v20n01_07     Document Type: Article

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