School based mentoring for minority youth: Program components and evaluation strategies

Educating Our Black Children: New Directions and Radical Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 214-257

  Garate Serafini, Teresa ^a   Balcazar, Fabricio E ^a   Keys, Christopher B ^a   Weitlauf, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 85071075580     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203995648-27     Document Type: Chapter

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