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In October 2019, The Wallace Foundation and America’s Promise Alliance hosted a day-long event in Chicago to address the challenges of teaching social and emotional skills to young people in out-of-school time programs. We drafted the conference report that is in your hands, however, before two major developments in the life of this nation had yet to occur.

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