Evaluating youth development programs: Progress and promise

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Applied Developmental Science

• Publication date

  2016-07-02

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  Medicine, Education, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1080/10888691.2015.1113879PMID 28077922PMCID PMC5222537
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