Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in ORR Foster Care: Community Level Facilitators of Adjustment Identified by Service Providers.
Purpose: While many studies address immigrant integration, few focus on the adjustment process for unaccompanied immigrant children in foster care in the United States- and even fewer look at community level prevention and intervention strategies for positive youth adjustment. This study uses a huma...
| Publicado en: | Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 125 - 139 |
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Feb2024
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