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After-School Programs in Boston: What Young People Think and Want

A Report to the Boston After School for All Partnership

Commissioned by the Barr Foundation Prepared by Innovation by Design and the Center for Teen Empowerment

Originally submitted: August 2001

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Revised and printed: June 2002

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