Point of engagement: reducing disproportionality and improving child and family outcomes

Eric J Marts1, Eun-Kyoung Othelia Lee, Ruth McRoy

  • 1Department of Children and Family Services, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Child Welfare
|November 1, 2008
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