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Volume 10, Issue 4
1 November 2006
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A Life in the Day
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Mark Laville
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-5533
Print ISSN: 1366-6282
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2006
A Life in the Day (2006) 10 (4): 3–6.
https://doi.org/10.1108/13666282200600032

Mark Laville describes how AKABA, a specialist outreach education and employment support programme for black men with mental health problems, has helped him turn his life around ‐ from homeless, jobless alcoholic and psychiatric patient to community worker and researcher studying for a university qualification.

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