The Emotion Revolution Summit brought together educators, policy makers, and advocates with more than 200 young people around the country to discuss how to address the gap between how students feel in school and how than want to feel.

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#KindMonsters is a petition to pledge and promised to practice kindness every day. We’re excited to work with Monster High to inspire change and help create a kinder, more accepting world!

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Channel Kindness is a platform to give youth a voice in a media landscape that too often ignores or misrepresents young people. It’s a platform to report on the kind, compassionate, and brave individuals and events that shape our communities. And it’s a platform to counterbalance the negative narratives that dominate the media and inspire hope that progress is possible.

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City of Kindness was a panel met in front of more than 200 mayors from across the county, where they discussed the role that kindness can play in improving the mental health of citizens, and how current “cities of kindness” ave also experienced a decrease in crime. As a result of this discussion, the mayors voted unanimously to commit to 100 billion acts of kindness across the country.

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Head Stuck In A Cycle I Look Off And I Stare” is a personal letter from Lady Gage Personal Letter From Gaga

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InspirEd is a resource center designed by teens, educators, and SEL experts to empower high schools to create a positive school climate and greater well-being for young people.

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Kind Communities – A Bridge to Youth Mental Wellness is a survey of over 4,000 young people and parents about mental health. Some of their key findings include:

• Kindness matters: oung people who describe their environments as kind are more likely to be mentally healthy. 
• Peer networks matter: youth rely on a small set of close friends for support. A
• Mental health resources matter>: young people with access to tangible resources are more mentally healthy. Furthermore, youth want to empower themselves with knowledge and skills to support their own wellness – and assist a friend who might be in crisis – but we need to do a better job providing those resources.

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The Center for Management of ADHD provides provide diagnostic evaluations, therapy and medication for children who have — or are at risk for developing — attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). They are a comprehensive ADHD center providing services that are available in Philadelphia as well as several specialty care locations in PA and NJ. Working with a team approach to care, CHOP offer children 4 through 18 years of age a variety of services aimed at promoting health and wellbeing, including:

• Medication consultation and management
• Family behavior therapy
• Group parent training programs to provide education about ADHD and strategies to promote child’s success at home and school
• ADHD evaluation services

Every child who comes to the Center for Management of ADHD at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia receives an initial evaluation. The goals of this evaluation are to develop an understanding of your child’s strengths and challenges and to determine their primary treatment needs. This evaluation will include a comprehensive assessment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as well as a screening for other emotional, behavioral and medical conditions. Learn more about your child’s ADHD evaluation.

The center is committed to continuing to learn about ADHD, developing more effective treatments for the disorder, and improving the care of children with ADHD. Current areas of research include:

• Assessing ADHD in children and teens
• Developing and evaluating family and school interventions for children with ADHD or who are at risk of developing the condition
• Developing strategies to manage ADHD in primary care practices
• Factors contributing to driving risks for children with ADHD
• Understanding the neurobiology of ADHD

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The Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress (CPTS) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia addresses medical trauma in the lives of children and families. Founded in 2002 as a multidisciplinary intervention development center within the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, CPTS collaborates worldwide with hospitals, universities, nonprofit, and government organizations to further its work in preventing and treating medical traumatic stress in healthcare settings. As a center focusing on addressing medical traumatic stress, CPTS seek to:

• Increase awareness and recognition of medical traumatic stress by healthcare providers using the Healthcare Toolbox.
• Develop and promote empirically based screening and intervention for children and families who have experienced traumatic stress due to pediatric illness and injury.
• Provide training to medical and mental health providers about best practices in assessing and treating medical traumatic stress.
• Develop and disseminate resources about coping with traumatic stress to ill and injured children and their families.
• Develop an educational Web site for healthcare providers to provide information and training in trauma-informed care
• Provide training, information and resources for medical and mental health professionals in assessing and treating medical traumatic stress in children and their families.
• Collaborate with national healthcare provider organizations to promote trauma-informed care and best practices in preventing and treating medical traumatic stress.
• Adapt CPTS' assessments and interventions for medical traumatic stress across a wider range of healthcare settings and patient populations.
• Translate CPTS' educational materials for children and parents into Spanish and developing additional Web-based and print resources to meet the informational needs of different patient populations.

Many professionals contribute to the work of CPTS staff collaborates with:

• Healthcare providers from psychology, critical care medicine, emergency medicine, nursing, oncology, primary care, psychiatry and surgery at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
• Medical and mental health providers nationwide.
• Collaborators within the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
• Working with our partners, we study the effects of medical traumatic stress on children, adolescents and families, and use our findings to raise awareness and improve treatment.

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The Child and Adolescent Mood Program (CHAMP) is part of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia that treat a variety of conditions including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder and frequently co-occurring conditions such as ADHD. Possible treatment options may include supportive therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), interpersonal therapy (IPT), group therapy, or medication to help manage your child’s symptoms

When a person calls to make an appointment with CHAMP, you’ll speak with an intake coordinator. This person will ask questions to help assess whether your child may be depressed. You will be asked about things like your child’s sleeping and eating habits, his energy levels, and whether he’s been feeling lonely or angry. We will also ask about any additional medical conditions your child may have. These questions help us determine what kind of care your child may need. If we think that your child would benefit from CHAMP, your intake coordinator will schedule two appointments: an evaluation appointment and a feedback appointment. After these sessions, we will provide recommended next steps for treatment and a plan for follow-up care. Learn more about what to expect at these appointments.

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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Psychology Services pediatric psychologists specialize in providing assessment, intervention and consultation services to children who need help adjusting to a diagnosis, adhering to treatment, or who may require support related to the trauma of their illness or procedure. Members of their multidisciplinary team treat patients with acute and chronic pediatric illnesses, including neurodevelopmental disorders, autistic spectrum disorders, behavioral and school difficulties, enuresis and encopresis, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, deeding disorders, learning disabilities, cancer, and cardiac conditions, organ and stem cell transplantation, obesity, gastrointestinal disorders, sickle cell disease and traumatic injury. Their services include:

• Assessments
• Cognitive and developmental assessments
• Neuropsychological evaluations
• Evaluation of emotional, social and family functioning
• Child therapy
• Family therapy
• Pain and stress reduction approaches
• Consultations

Psychology Services consult with medical teams throughout the Hospital about the psychological well-being of patients and families and treatment adherence. We also consult with school counselors when needed.

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Children's Intensive Emotional and Behavioral Services (CIEBS) provides comprehensive psychiatric partial hospitalization services in a trauma-informed, behaviorally based therapeutic setting to children in the Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Ocean Counties of New Jersey. The program is for children between the ages of 5 and 13 who have significant emotional, behavioral and social needs. Children are referred to us by schools, pediatricians, the mental health community, child protective services and parents. Our patients have a variety of behavioral, emotional and social needs that are significantly impacting the child’s ability to learn and participate constructively in their home, school or community. CIEBS offers two separate but integrated psychiatric programs.

• Children’s Intensive Emotional and Behavioral Services, a full-day psychiatric program that runs six hours a day (9 a.m.-3 p.m.), five days a week. The program is available for children age 5 to 13.
• The Children’s Extended Day Hospital Program, an extended-day psychiatric program that runs 4½ hours a day (3-7:30 p.m.), two to four days a week. The program is available for children age 8 to 13. 

Children's Intensive Emotional and Behavioral Services is open to children age 5 to 13, who live in Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Ocean counties in New Jersey. Children in this program may have a history of being rejected, expelled or excluded from schools and other community programs because their behavioral challenges have made it difficult for them to participate. They likely present with a combination of psychiatric symptoms and severe impairment of functioning in the home, school and/or community, and may be considered at-risk for being hospitalized, expelled from school or placed in more restrictive settings, such as residential placement. Children who attend our programs may also have a history of:

• Prenatal/perinatal complications
• Developmental delays
• Prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol
• Neglect, abuse, and trauma

Trauma-informed care recognizes and responds to these experiences and creates a safe place for the children to learn new behaviors. Their services include:

• Thorough screening and evaluation
• Psychiatric evaluation, consultation and medication monitoring
• Expressive therapy groups
• Family therapy
• Individual therapy tailored to the child’s/family’s needs, as needed
• Psychoeducational groups
• Simulated classroom setting and activities
• High level of supervision and safety for aggressive and combative behaviors
• Case management/care coordination
• Creative therapies
• Daily living skills and health training
• Daily recreational therapy
• Referral to — and consultation with — community resources
• Psychoeducation/psychotherapy group for parents of current and former patients
• Transitional discharge planning
• Transportation is provided for children based on distance from the child’s residence to the CHOP Specialty Care Center in Mays Landing, NJ. Alternative transportation can be discussed.

The team includes psychiatrists, physicians, mental health therapists, nurses and other behavioral health professionals. We work together to provide comprehensive evaluations and individualized treatment to each child. Our approach to care incorporates the child, family and community and our goal is to return children to their school and community. When children enter one of our partial hospital programs, they are placed in developmentally appropriate treatment rooms that become the setting for their therapy. Within this safe, predictable, and therapeutic environment, children receive trauma-informed, behaviorally focused, individualized treatment that encourages family and community participation. Treatment focuses on teaching children how to develop safe adaptive behaviors, emotional self-regulation and pro-social skills as building blocks that will improve their academic learning potential. Interventions are designed to help them reach their behavioral, emotional, social and learning potential.

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The Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia treats eating disorders in a multidisciplinary family-based model, with outpatient therapy, medical and nutrition visits, as well as inpatient medical stabilization when needed. They believe eating disorders are reversible disorders with neurobiologic and genetic roots, and support caregivers in treating these illnesses at home using evidence-based treatment whenever possible. This program offers the comprehensive services of our Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Division of Adolescent Medicine.

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Family Stress and Illness Program provide experts specially trained to recognize the stressors that are affecting your family and the particular challenges presented by your child’s course of care. Our team partners with you, your child and your child’s doctors to address the associated psychological challenges the family experiences as you cope with illness. The FSIP team provides individual and family therapy for children and adolescents ages 3 to 18 with acute or chronic illness. Our goal is to optimize your child’s care and health outcomes and family adjustment. To develop a customized plan for your family, our experts will:  

• Meet with your family to better understand your needs and concerns.
• Consult with your child’s doctor(s) to assess existing and potential challenges in the management of your child’s illness.
• Provide counseling that supports your family as you move forward with implementing changes.  

The FSIP team includes pediatric psychologists and psychologists-in-training who focus on the impact of chronic illness on individual and family functioning. They help families caught in negative interactional patterns learn new ways to help their children and move forward in their development.

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Gender and Sexuality Development Program stand with the colleagues at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and other children’s hospitals to work with transgender and non-binary (TNB) youth and their families across the globe. The Gender and Sexuality Development Program offers psychosocial and medical support for gender nonconforming, gender expansive and transgender children and youth up to age 21 and their families. Their multidisciplinary team includes specialists in gender identity development from Social Work and Family Services, Adolescent Medicine, Endocrinology, and Behavioral Health. We work with your family to best meet the needs of your child or youth who is transgender or gender nonconforming. The Gender Program offers a variety of services based on individual and family needs including:

• Comprehensive gender assessment
• Gender affirming medical care
• Monthly support groups
• Insurance advocacy
• Legal support
• Lending library for parents, children and adolescents
• Connections to local stylists and salon owners who are LGBTQ friendly
• School, church, community, and healthcare provider trainings
• Referrals for ongoing outpatient therapy and/or psychiatric treatment

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The Healthy Minds, Healthy Kids (HMHK) Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) integrates behavioral health providers within primary care teams. We provide behavioral health interventions in collaboration with pediatric primary care providers. If longer-term treatment is necessary, the HMHK provider works with the PCP and the family to support appropriate community-based referrals.

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The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia offers the Neurodevelopmental Disorders Consultation Clinic (NDCC). This clinic provides recommendations on medications that can be used as part of a larger treatment plan with the goal of improving your child’s quality of life. The NDCC provides comprehensive assessment of children with: 

• Tourette syndrome and other movement disorders
• ADHD
• Social learning disorders (including autism spectrum disorder (ASD))
• Complex learning disabilities
• Genetic disorders
• Traumatic brain injury
• Seizures and related conditions. 

The psychiatrists on the NDCC team will assess your child and provide treatment recommendations that address any psychiatric difficulties that may be interfering with day to day life. Our clinic is staffed by a second year CAP Fellow with direct supervision provided by Anthony L. Rostain, PhD.

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TiPS is a Pennsylvania HealthChoices program designed to increase the availability of child psychiatry consultation teams, regionally and by phone, to primary care providers (PCPs) and other prescribers of psychotropic medications. The program is available for children insured by Pennsylvania’s Medical Assistance (Medicaid) Program. TiPS provides real-time, peer-to-peer resources to the PCPs who need immediate consultative advice for children (up to age 21) with behavioral health concerns. TiPS psychiatrists do not prescribe medications. There is one TiPS team in each of the five HealthChoices zones in Pennsylvania. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia provides consultation to providers in the Southeast Zone. Once your practice enrolls in TiPS, your regional team will come to your office or provide education over the phone for you and your staff. They will explain the program, how to access services, answer questions, and discuss expectations.

• View our online enrollment form
• Regional TiPS teams
• HealthChoices Southeast Zone — Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia: 267-426-1776
• HealthChoices Northeast and Lehigh/Capital — Penn State Children’s Hospital: 800-233-4082
• HealthChoices Southwest and Northwest — Children’s Community Pediatrics: 844-972-8477

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The Anxiety Behaviors Clinic (ABC) provides evaluation, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and medication management for children and adolescents ages 4-18 with primary anxiety disorders, including:

• Selective mutism
• Separation anxiety disorder
• Phobias
• OCD
• Social anxiety disorder
• Generalized anxiety disorder
• Panic disorder

ABC also provide behavioral treatment for difficulties that frequently present with anxiety disorders, such as sleep problems, selective eating, and tic disorders. The emphasis is on providing evidence-based and empirically supported treatments that involve and engage the whole family. The ABC frequently expands its services and has added several psychologists in recent years who provide cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders.

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The Behavioral Health Integrated Program (BHIP) is a consultation liaison service that provides behavioral health services to children who are hospitalized for medical illnesses. Clinicians are available for inpatient psychiatric and psychological consultation/evaluation and brief treatment. Referrals to this service come from the patient’s attending physician. Issues often addressed on our service include:

• Urgent assessment and intervention, and safety planning with mental health crises
• Evaluation, medication management and brief, evidence-based intervention for mental health needs
• Evaluation and intervention for eating disorders
• Intervention for behavioral or emotional concerns that interfere with medical treatment
• Assessment of organic mental health syndromes that result in alteration of mental status
• Evaluation and treatment of unexplained physical symptoms that may be a result of psychological processes

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The Neuropsychology and Assessment Service at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) provides evaluation and consultation services for children with specific medical disorders. The purpose of a neuropsychological evaluation is to understand how medical conditions or treatments involving the brain or central nervous system affect the person’s development, including impacts on cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning. We work with patients from infancy through young adulthood. They manage or diagnose neurocognitive effects associated with medical conditions including, as major categories and examples:

• Brain tumor and other childhood cancers
• Central nervous system infection
• Cerebral palsy
• Cerebrovascular disease or stroke
• Craniofacial conditions
• Demyelinating disorders (e.g., multiple sclerosis, ADEM)
• Epilepsy
• Genetic/metabolic disorders
• Heart disease (e.g., congenital heart disease, heart failure, heart transplant)
• Hydrocephalus
• Hypoxic or anoxic brain injury
• Mitochondrial disorders
• Neurotoxic exposures
• Spina bifida
• Traumatic brain injury

Neuropsychologists evaluate cognitive skills such as attention, learning, memory, language, reasoning and problem solving, perceptual and sensory/motor functions. This helps us understand brain functioning in the course of development and evaluate the potential need for interventions to support development. They also evaluate psychological, emotional, and behavioral factors which may be associated with patients’ medical conditions and can help differentiate between cognitive problems that arise from medical conditions and those that arise from other causes. They provide a number of different services, including comprehensive and targeted neuropsychological evaluations as well as neuropsychological consultation. Their goal is to identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses, answer questions you have about your child’s cognitive functioning, and make treatment and service recommendations to help your child reach their full potential.

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The Youth Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Research Center (Y-SPIRC) at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was created to turn around these grim statistics by taking a holistic approach. The Center, part of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, incorporates clinical care, research, education and community engagement as ways to improve the identification and treatment of depression and other mental illnesses that can lead to suicide in children and youth.

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The Young Child Clinic (YCC) in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) serves families with young children who have emotional and behavioral challenges. We treat children from birth through kindergarten. Their multidisciplinary clinic, offered by a team of psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers, works together to provide the best possible care to support your child’s ongoing growth and development. After multiple evaluations are complete and recommendations are shared with your family, YCC may offer a combination of the following services:

• Parent-child interaction therapy: Proven treatment program that focuses on promoting positive parent-child relationships and interactions, and teaching parents effective child management skills
• Psychiatric consultation: Multisession evaluation includes comprehensive, multi-axial assessment and formulation followed by detailed written report
• Medication evaluation: Comprehensive evaluation and recommendations for treatment with medication
• Play therapy: Individual assessment that includes child-directed play
• Clinical work with parents: Parent engagement in treatment plan development and child’s ongoing care

The expert staff of the YCC offers comprehensive evaluation and treatment recommendations for children with disruptive behavior disorders, behavior problems, with or without developmental or learning delays, anxiety disorders, mood disorders (depression), attachment or relationship problems, history of early childhood neglect or disrupted placement, trauma and stressor-related disorders and behavioral issues related to chronic medical conditions.

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The Love of Learning Program empowers children and young people in care with guidance and support from trained volunteer mentors who nurture learning, confidence, and life skills with the goal of helping them to reach their full potential.

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Teen Life Skills (TLS) is an extension of our Love of Learning Program offered and designed for young people from 12 to 24 years of age.

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A Wake workshop is unlike any other professional or personal development experience in the country. Designed and delivered by young people, we create inspiring, raw and highly interactive experiences that will transform your staff professionally, and personally.

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152 Wellington St Collingwood VIC 3066

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Australia

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hello@wakebyreach.com

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Peer workers have experience with mental health challenges and use this experience to support others

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Australia

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Ask ReachOut Beta is a platform where you can get answers to your questions from ReachOut’s articles and resources.

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PeerChat is a one-on-one, text-based service between you and a ReachOut peer worker. It’s a safe and secure space to talk about what’s going on for you.  PeerChat is a safe, friendly and inclusive space for young people. We support people of all genders, First Nations young people, the LGBTQIA+ community, and neurodivergent and culturally and linguistically diverse young people.

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The ReachOut Online Community is a safe space where you can share your experience, learn from others and support each other.

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Yarn up is a safe space for First Nations young people to connect with community, hear from others, and access wellbeing resources and support.

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Elements parallels the start of life with an athlete preparing for a race, reaching their peak and ready to perform. This school singing and wellbeing project, based on the 20-minute Elements Cantata by Russell Hepplewhite and Jamila Gavin, helps children explore their unique journeys and the vital connection between nature and personal growth.

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Extraordinary! celebrates children’s uniqueness, one of their greatest strengths.  It is a 20 minute song cycle written by the writers of Stardust, Jools Scott and Sue Curtis, and forms a school singing and wellbeing project to help children to understand their individuality and potential to achieve great things.

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Whole class singing workshops will be delivered by our music leaders throughout the day followed by a whole school rehearsal and performance. Assemblies or individual workshops can also be arranged. They have a selection of songs we can offer for the workshops.

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Stardust is a 45-minute children’s musical work which, using an outer-space theme, and explicitly helps children to explore their different feelings through song. 

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The Young Champions Scheme provides opportunities for secondary school students who have sung with us at primary level to stay involved with Voices for Life. These roles include assisting at rehearsals and performances, mentoring, fundraising, and contributing to project development.

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