Thrive in 5 Year 2 Annual Report

Year Two Reportto Thomas M. Menino Mayor of Boston

Michael K. Durkin President, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley

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Toward Universal School ReadinessBoston’s Progress

2 Year 2 Annual Report

Dear Reader, Boston’s future prosperity is important to all of us. Whether you are a business owner, teacher, college student,

parent, grandparent, or a leader in your religious community, your future – and Boston’s future – rests on our city’s children.

The earliest years of life offer the greatest opportunity to build a strong foundation for our children’s – and our

community’s – long-term success. Science tells us that a child’s early experiences have tremendous long-term

effects on brain development and form the basis for lifelong learning, behavior and physical and mental health.

We know that children thrive when their early interactions are marked by positive, nurturing relationships and

stimulating, safe environments. Conversely, we also know that too many young children are exposed to negative

experiences. These can create stress levels that are toxic to the developing brain, impacting learning, health

and well being into adulthood.

Thrive in 5’s mission is to ensure that children of all races, ethnicities, incomes, abilities and languages have the

opportunities and support they need to enter kindergarten ready for success in school and beyond. To achieve

this mission, Thrive in 5 brings together all of the adults, resources and supports in a young child’s life in new ways

to better support healthy development and school readiness. Through collaboration, we are promoting more

efficient and effective services, increasing parent and neighborhood capacity, and building stronger communities

in order to overcome the disparities in opportunity that we know exist among Boston’s children.

Together, we are building a movement to ensure that all children have the best possible start in life.

Thank you for joining with us,

Randal D. Rucker, MCP Chair, Thrive in 5 Leadership Council Chief Executive Officer, Family Service of Greater Boston

John Lippitt, PhDExecutive Director, Thrive in 5

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ThRive in 5: Growing a MovementThrive in 5 is transforming Boston into a city that values and proactively

nurtures young children’s school readiness – because when our youngest

children thrive, we all prosper. Thrive in 5 envisions a city where families,

educators, providers, business leaders and communities come together

with the knowledge, skills and resources to prepare children for success in

school and beyond. This vision is illustrated by Thrive in 5’s School Readiness

Equation, the theory of change that guides this work:

Research and common sense tell us that when children thrive in their first five years,

they are poised to be strong lifelong learners, earners and engaged citizens. From

neuroscience, we know that a child’s brain develops more rapidly in their first few

years of life than during any other time. That growth, which depends on good health,

positive experiences, and nurturing relationships, lays the foundation for all future

development. Leading economists agree that investing early to ensure a good start

for children prevents more costly and less effective interventions to correct their

course later on. For every $1 directed to early childhood, up to $17 is returned

in savings on special education and criminal justice costs and through increased

tax revenue.

In partnership with community organizations, families, and our key sponsors,

Mayor Thomas M. Menino and United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack

Valley, Thrive in 5 is creating systemic change in early childhood in Boston to secure

a brighter, more prosperous future for our community. Boston’s School Readiness

Roadmap, created by 100 local leaders and parents, puts forth Thrive in 5’s citywide

goals and strategies to achieve the mission of universal school readiness (available

at www.Thrivein5Boston.org). The Roadmap’s strategies bring together a broad base

of early childhood stakeholders to redesign the ways we support our children’s

development. Together, we are working to improve coordination and collaboration

of local efforts, strengthen the quality and reach of existing services, and develop

new resources and initiatives where needed.

This report highlights the progress Thrive in 5 has made in Boston over the last year,

as well as plans moving forward. Included are the work Thrive in 5 launched directly

and information gathered about activities of our partners across the city that work

toward the common vision of universal school readiness. While these highlights are

listed under the different pieces of the equation, many of these strategies and

activities are interconnected.

How Boston Defines School ReadinessSchool readiness is more than knowing your ABCs and colors. The more we learn about brain development, the more we understand the complex network of skills, relationships and environments that prepare children for success in school and beyond.

At the individual level, a child who is ready for school is one who:

interacts positively with other children and adults,

is curious and loves learning new things,

can focus and pay attention to an adult, another child, books and tasks,

is generally happy and can manage his or her emotions, and

has age appropriate language, cognitive, and physical skills.*

This definition encompasses the five domains of development widely recognized in the early childhood field – language and literacy; social and emotional development; cognition and general knowledge; approaches to learning; and physical well being and motor development.

* For more information on child development milestones, visit www.TalkReadPlay.org.

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+ Thrive in 5 launched Boston Children Thrive in five neighborhoods: Allston/Brighton, Dudley (Roxbury/North Dorchester), east Boston, Fields Corner (Dorchester) and the South End/ Lower Roxbury. In each neighborhood, a hub agency, families and community partners identified and began implementing activities that bring everyone in the community together to ensure that all parents and caregivers have the skills, confidence, knowledge and well being they need to be leaders in their children’s healthy development. Hub agencies meet regularly to share lessons learned across neighborhoods.

+ Six community organizations launched in the Know: Boston’s early Childhood Blog (http://earlychildhoodboston.wordpress.com) to raise awareness about early childhood issues. The collaborators – the Boston Children’s Museum, the Children’s Trust Fund, Countdown to Kindergarten, Jumpstart, ReadBoston and Thrive in 5 – also meet monthly to coordinate and collaborate on early childhood/ parenting education campaigns.

+ Seven new playgroups serving 90 children and their families/caregivers started in Allston/Brighton through the Allston/Brighton Early Childhood System of Care’s Playgroup Initiative, including one for Portuguese speakers. Countdown to Kindergarten also added two new sites to their Play to Learn Groups, serving over 600 1- to 3-year-olds and families/caregivers at a total of 11 sites in Boston.

+ Over 30 businesses in Charlestown, Mattapan and Roslindale – including bodegas, laundromats, cell phone stores, barbershops, and restaurants – joined Smart from the Start’s Community Unity Initiative, to promote community-wide responsibility for school readiness. Participating businesses host on-site play-to-learn spaces and disseminate information and free books to families with young children.

+ 3,000 children celebrated School Readiness Friday nights at the Boston Children’s Museum for just $1 admission. These feature special activities to promote school readiness including science exploration, block building, a scissors workshop, and D.W. Counts Down to Kindergarten! The Play.

+ The Children’s Trust Fund’s Not Even For A Minute campaign reminded parents never to leave a child alone in a vehicle, working to prevent child death from heat exhaustion or hypothermia. Suffolk University graphic design students created the bilingual campaign posters, which were displayed at Registry of Motor Vehicles branches and family- serving agencies across the state. One will also be featured on a billboard in Summer 2011.

+ Families First Parenting Programs created a parenting workshop series on early childhood. The new 6-session early Childhood series for parents focuses on communication and language development, the importance of play, positive discipline, child development, and the impact of media violence.

+ The Family nurturing Center opened a Family Resource Center at the Marshall elementary School in Dorchester, connecting families with children of all ages with community resources and support. The Center offers parent-child playgroups, parenting workshops and support groups, and infant massage classes on-site.

hiGhLiGhTS of Progress

Ready FamiliesGoal: Ensure parents have the skills, confidence, and knowledge they need to be leaders and advocates in their children’s learning and development. help communities increase capacity through well-coordinated resources and broad stakeholder involvement to support children’s healthy development starting at birth.

in developing this report, partner organizations across Boston were invited to provide

information about their work to support universal school readiness. highlighted below

are examples of results from collaboration and innovation in the community.


+ Fifty-six community-based early education programs and 27 family child care educators achieved or maintained accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National Association for Family Child Care. The MA Department of Early Education and Care (DEEC) and Boston Community Partnerships for Children (CPC) provided funding and support to these programs and educators through the accreditation process.

+ Twelve Boston Public Schools’ (BPS) early education programs achieved nAeYC accreditation. Another 19 schools with nearly 100 K1 and K2 classrooms are in the accreditation process, of which seven are in the Circle of Promise and three are Turnaround Schools.

+ More than 200 early educators participated in training and professional development opportunities provided by Community Partnerships for Children (CPC) neighborhood clusters. CPC also sponsored a citywide Family Child Care conference for 150 attendees spotlighting changes in licensing regulations for home-based educators.

+ The Boston region received $566K from the MA Department of early education and Care to create a region-wide system for early educator professional development. Thrive in 5 is a partner in the Region 6 Collaborative that is building this cohesive system for coaching and mentoring early education and out of school time providers, as well as providing accreditation support services to early education programs.

+ Artists-in-residence joined Roxbury Head Start, the Ellison Parks Early Education School in Mattapan, and Nazareth Child Care Center in Jamaica Plain through Wolf Trap Institute Residency Program and the Boston Children’s Museum. The artists worked directly with educators at each site to infuse arts experiences in the early childhood curriculum and also led interactive family workshops.

+ Jumpstart expanded to match 794 three- to five-year-olds at 36 early childhood centers with mentors from local colleges and the community. Shifting from a one-on-one to a small group model allowed all children in the classroom to benefit. Jumpstart also partnered with BPS on a longitudinal study to understand the long-term effects of Jumpstart’s model on later school performance.


Ready educatorsGoal: ensure that the highest quality early education and care is available to all young children – infants, toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners – in all settings: family child care, private/community based centers, Head Start/Early Head Start, and school-based early education.

Over the past year, Thrive in 5 has…

+ Generated significant new resources for Boston’s early childhood community, including a direct grant of $1.5M from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and partnering with state and local agencies on two federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grants bringing $21M to Boston over the next 6 years. Over 95% of the funds from these grants go to local organizations to improve and expand services for families.

+ Focused Boston’s leaders across all sectors on early childhood as a crucial component of education reform. As an example, the Opportunity Agenda funder collaborative included an early childhood segment in their “Education Pipeline” and identified Thrive in 5 as the priority partner for early childhood.

+ Promoted on-the-ground work to support children’s school readiness and healthy development in local organizations and neighborhoods, such as five Boston Children Thrive communities and five community health centers and a hospital-based pediatric clinic partnering on the SAMHSA grants.


+ The MA Department of Public Health, in partnership with the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) and Thrive in 5, was awarded $4.25M over five years from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for Project LAUNCH. The project will enhance pediatric medical homes for children birth to 8 years old at Boston Medical Center and Codman Square and Martha Elliot Health Centers. These medical homes will have a mental health clinician and family partner on-site who will screen and refer children and families to a broad set of services, if needed, when they visit the pediatric office. Focusing on promotion and prevention, the project will also train the site’s staff and families on supporting children’s social-emotional development.

+ SAMHSA also funded MYCHILD, a new initiative led by the MA Executive Office of Health and Human Services in partnership with the BPHC and Thrive in 5. MYCHILD creates a system of care to provide comprehensive support to children birth to 5 years old who have or are at high risk for severe emotional disorders. The $17M, six-year grant places mental health and family support staff at Health Care for the Homeless and the Mattapan, Bowdoin Street, and Joseph Smith Health Centers. Staff will also work with early education providers in the community to provide on-site services to individual children and consultations with educators.

+ Thrive in 5, as a local partner in both grants, worked to coordinate and focus the two SAMhSA initiatives on school readiness. Thrive in 5’s Ready Systems Implementation Partnership serves as the Boston Local Wellness Council, providing oversight and training for both grants. The initiatives’ evaluators, Abt Associates and Northeastern University, and Thrive in 5’s evaluators are also working to align their work.

+ 70 mothers were screened for maternal depression through the Boston home visiting Collaborative, a partnership of four home visiting programs providing services in Allston/Brighton. The pilot Collaborative supports a clinical team at the Visiting Nurses Association that provides in-home cognitive behavioral therapy to mothers.

+ Over 2,500 young children across ABCD’s 27 head Start programs received vision, hearing and dental screenings from Commonwealth Mobile Dental Services, Boston University School of Dental Medicine, the New England College of Optometry and the New England Eye Institute. These screenings resulted in 13 children receiving glasses and 115 follow-up dental visits.

+ Boston families with young children had access to open gym time at local community centers, which also featured educational workshops on supporting children’s nutrition and physical activity. Healthy Kids Healthy Futures, an initiative to prevent childhood obesity sponsored by Northeastern University, the Boston Red Sox, and Children’s Hospital Boston, also provided professional development for staff from local Head Start programs.


Ready SystemsGoal: Succeed in detecting and responding to barriers to child development and school readiness early, particularly family and environmental conditions, through healthcare, early childhood systems of intervention and other systems serving young children.


+ A diverse group of 18 Boston parents and caregivers (raising 40 children) formed Thrive in 5’s Parent Advisory Group. Members of the group provide input and guidance and serve as ambassadors for Thrive in 5’s work. Parents also serve as key members of the Thrive in 5 Leader-ship Council and many Implementation Partnerships, reviewing proposals, making funding decisions, and participating in professional development opportunities.

+ Parenting in Action, a cable talk show sponsored by Mayor Menino by and for parents in Boston, premiered on Bnn in January 2010. The show helps parents of young children get information and support on topics such as sleep, asthma, Autism, tantrums and nutrition. Guests on the 18 episodes from the first season included the BPHC, Families First,

Countdown to Kindergarten, and Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center.

+ Over 10,000 children zig-zagged, bunny-hopped, and giant-stepped their way through the Boston Public Library’s (BPL) Story Walk exhibition. The Story Walk, BPL’s first major exhibit for young children at the Copley library, featured an interactive version of the book Jonathan and His Mommy by Irene Smalls. The BPL’s preschool programs, including Reading Readiness and preschool and infant story times, served 28,622 young children, a 43% increase from the previous year.

+ Healthy Baby Healthy Child (HBHC), the BPHC’s home visiting program for preg-nant women and families with children birth to 5, launched an Early Literacy

Initiative. Through the Initiative, HBHC partnered with Raising a Reader to lend books to families and created a new early Literacy home visitor position to coordinate literacy work throughout the program. 68% of surveyed families reported sharing books three or more times a week after the program, compared to 49% before.

+ A multidisciplinary team from the University of Massachusetts Boston was selected as the evaluator for Boston Children Thrive and to develop an evaluation plan for Thrive in 5. The evaluators meet regularly with Thrive in 5’s Data and Research Team to foster collaboration and get feedback on their work.


+ A new Early Childhood Data Analyst was hired at the Boston Public Schools (BPS). The analyst will connect information about children’s early experiences with later school performance to identify what services and supports most impact school readiness. The position, funded by Thrive in 5, is part of the BPS Office of Research, Assessment and Evaluation.

+ Over 90 early childhood providers and community stakeholders attended a Frameworks Institute seminar, sponsored by the Barr Foundation and Thrive in 5, to help unify and strengthen Boston’s early childhood communications work. Frameworks uses research-based messaging to reframe the public conversation and ultimately advance public policy on early childhood and other social issues.

Ready City

Children Ready for Sustained School Success

Goal: Transform Boston into a city that prioritizes children’s school readiness by promoting effective collaboration across all sectors.

Goal: Ultimately, ensure young children will be ready for sustained success in school.


MOvinG Boston Forward

14 interrelated Strategies

*“ School readiness” is currently measured by the DIBELS, a literacy assessment administered by the Boston Public Schools (BPS) at kindergarten entry. BPS serves about 75% of Boston’s 5-year olds, making the DIBELS a good indicator of literacy readiness in kindergarten citywide. Thrive in 5 is working to develop a comprehensive set of school readiness measures, from birth through kindergarten. See Strategy 13 for more information.

By 2018, all of Boston’s children will be ready for school at kindergarten entry. Today, only 54% of Boston’s children are.* In order to ensure that we are on track, Thrive in 5 has set an interim goal that by 2014, 75% of Boston’s children entering kindergarten will be ready. This means shifting the paths of about 5,000 to 7,000 young children over the next four years.

To achieve this goal, Thrive in 5 has selected 14 priority strategies, 5 neighborhoods and 2 critical aspects of school readiness to focus our implementation of Boston’s School Readiness Roadmap over the next four years.

1. Connect Families, Build Community: Boston Children Thrive (BCT) – Deepen efforts in the five initial BCT sites to bring everyone in the community together to ensure that all parents and caregivers have the skills, confidence, knowledge and well being they need to be leaders in their children’s healthy development.

2. enhance Central Resource Database – Support The Online Advocate’s expan-sion to meet the needs of the early childhood community and increase families’ access to community re-sources.

3. Build Parent Leadership – Create a parent leader training network for families with young children, building a movement of “demand parents” who serve as a voice for change on behalf of all young children across the city.

4. improve Professional Development for early educators – Create professional development pathways for all early education and care providers to improve their core competencies, credentials, and the quality of education they provide.

5. increase Accreditation to improve early Care and education Quality – Provide early education programs with customized assistance to reach or maintain accreditation and publicly promote accreditation as the gold standard of quality.

6. improve early Childhood Transitions – Ensure that children maintain a smooth learning path and that essential information is shared as children adapt to new settings and teachers.

7. enhance Pediatric Medical homes – Improve screening, assessment, and intervention for young children by placing an early childhood specialist and a care coordinator in pediatric practices to better connect families to needed services.

8. enhance early Childhood intervention Services – Improve the quality of and expand eligibility for intervention services to ensure that children and families are on track developmentally when facing toxic stress risk factors.

“ Through Dudley Children Thrive, we have deepened important relationships within the community – among families, community organizations, and others working with our children.”

– May Louie Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative

“ Being involved with Thrive in 5 makes me think of the 5 Ps – Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance. All the planning we’re doing is starting to make a difference in our community.”

– Sherada Norvin parent, Hyde Park


MOvinG Boston Forward

** Self Regulation: the ability to focus and maintain attention, a good working memory, and ability to manage impulses and persevere.

9. expand & enhance newborn Welcome visits – Increase the capacity of Boston’s home visiting programs to offer every family a welcome baby visit, providing earlier detection of and response to factors that put school readiness at risk.

10. improve Communications about School Readiness – Increase understanding of and support for the importance of children’s healthy development and school readiness among stakeholders and the general public.

11. Affect Policies through Advocacy – Develop an advocacy agenda to support public policy changes essential to achieving and sustaining universal school readiness.

12. Link early Childhood Data Systems – Develop a full picture of children’s early experiences and outcomes across systems from birth to 5, increasing understanding of which services and supports are necessary and effective.

13. identify a Comprehensive Set of School Readiness Measures – Develop a set of child-level measures from birth through kindergarten to ensure that children are on a trajectory to be ready at school entry.

14. evaluate Thrive in 5’s Outcomes and impact – Measure and analyze outcomes for children, their families, early childhood providers and systems, and the community as a whole in order to understand which strategies and activities are most effective.

5 neighborhoodsWhile some priority strategies will begin citywide, all will have a focus in the initial five Boston Children Thrive neighborhoods: Allston/Brighton, Dudley (Roxbury/North Dorchester), East Boston, Fields Corner (Dorchester) and the South End/Lower Roxbury. This provides the opportunity to see the collective impact of work in multiple settings, as well as chances to refine individual strategies and the model overall before bringing it citywide.

2 Critical Aspects of School Readiness The priority strategies will also promote two cornerstones of school readiness: early language and literacy skills and healthy social-emotional and behavioral development, including self regulation.** While all five domains of development are important, readiness in these two domains is critical for a solid foundation for future learning and growth.

“ i’ve become more conscious of the development of my grandsons. When i speak to them, i pay attention to what i say. When i play and interact with them, everything is with their development in mind. Thanks to Thrive in 5, i make everything around them a learning experience whether they recognize it or not.”

– Carla Smith grandparent, Roslindale

“ Family engagement has always been an important part of our work, but with Thrive in 5 support, we’ve been able to develop a focused and comprehensive parent leadership strategy that will have an impact on the whole neighborhood.”

– Matt LiPuma Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts

Boston’s future depends on the success of our children. It takes the commitment of everyone involved in children’s lives to drive progress towards our mission of achieving systemic change so that children of all races, ethnicities, incomes, abilities and languages have the opportunities and support they need to enter kindergarten ready for success in school and beyond. Through partnerships with families, early education and care providers, healthcare and human services systems and the city, we are making a difference for children in Boston. We welcome your feedback and your involvement in this work.

Pictured below: United Way President Michael Durkin and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, Thrive in 5’s public-private partnership leaders.

© 2010 PEI Gillooly


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ThRive in 5 Implementation Partnership Members


ThRive in 5 Leadership Council Randal Rucker, ChairfaMILy SERVIcE of GREaTER BoSTon

Maggi AlexanderconSULTanT

Deborah Allen BoSTon PUBLIc HEaLTH coMMISSIon

nina Andersson BRoWn RUDnIck

Mari Brennan Barrera EoS foUnDaTIon

Sharon Scott Chandler acTIon foR BoSTon coMMUnITy DEVELoPMEnT

Marilyn Anderson Chase Ma ExEcUTIVE offIcE of HEaLTH anD HUMan SERVIcES

Michael K. Durkin UnITED Way of MaSSacHUSETTS Bay anD MERRIMack VaLLEy

Sally Fogerty EDUcaTIon DEVELoPMEnT cEnTER, Inc.

hanna Gebretensae URBan coLLEGE

Juan Grullon PaREnT

Kimberly haskins BaRR foUnDaTIon

Carol Johnson/Jason Sachs BoSTon PUBLIc ScHooLS

Sherri Killins/Alina Lopez Ma DEPaRTMEnT of EaRLy EDUcaTIon anD caRE

Michael Marino DELoITTE conSULTInG

Shari nethersole cHILDREn’S HoSPITaL BoSTon

Michele norman faBLEVISIon

Sherada norvinPaREnT

Janine Olson MoRGan STanLEy SMITH BaRnEy

elizabeth Pauley THE BoSTon foUnDaTIon

Marta Rosa WHEELock coLLEGE

Ronnie Sanders PaRTnERS HEaLTHcaRE

Laurie Sherman offIcE of MayoR THoMaS M. MEnIno

Peg Sprague UnITED Way of MaSSacHUSETTS Bay anD MERRIMack VaLLEy

Gloria Weekes PaREnT

hiro Yoshikawa HaRVaRD GRaDUaTE ScHooL of EDUcaTIon

Wayne Ysaguirre aSSocIaTED EaRLy caRE anD EDUcaTIon

Barry Zuckerman BoSTon MEDIcaL cEnTER

ThRive in 5 Parent Advisory Group

ThRive in 5 Funders

Angelys Garcia

Belinda hanley

Kacy hughes

Rosa inniss

Mireille Louis

Roy Martin

Sophia Michel

Sherada norvin

Regina Robinson

Jeffrey Smith

Carla Smith

Kunthary Thai-Johnson

Maren Tober

Gloria Weekes

Karen Wontan

Barr Foundation

Boston Medical Center

Children’s hospital Boston

City of Boston

eos Foundation

MA Department of early education and Care – In PaRTnERSHIP WITH BoSTon coM-MUnITy PaRTnERSHIPS foR cHILDREn

Partners healthCare

Substance Abuse and Mental health Services Administration –In PaRTnERSHIP WITH THE Ma ExEcUTIVE offIcE of HEaLTH anD HUMan SERVIcES, Ma DEPaRTMEnT of PUBLIc HEaLTH anD THE BoSTon PUBLIc HEaLTH coMMISSIon

United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack valley

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Thrive in 5 Team John LippittExEcUTIVE DIREcToR

Cassandra BaxterPRoGRaM cooRDInaToR

Katie BrittonREaDy cITy ManaGER/DaRT co-ManaGER

Alba Cruz DavisREaDy SySTEMS ManaGER

Danielle GanttREaDy EDUcaToRS co-ManaGER

Katie MadrigalREaDy faMILIES ManaGER

Ophelia navarroDaRT co-ManaGER

Zora RadosevichREaDy EDUcaToRS co-ManaGER

Thomas M. MeninoMayor of Boston

www.thrivein5boston.org

Thrive in 5 MissionOur mission is to ensure that children of all races, ethnicities, incomes,

abilities and languages have the opportunities and support they

need to enter kindergarten ready for success in school and beyond.

Released april 2011

Photo Credits: Photos throughout this report are of Boston children pictured at associated Early care and Education and countdown to kindergarten programs and events. Photography by Heather Reardon & Lisa Marie oliveira © 2010.

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