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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Amid public policy discussion on crime reduction, job creation, and environmental protection during the U.S. Conference of Mayors' Annual Meeting that is being held this week in the capital city, the Providence After School Alliance (PASA) will shine its AfterZone strategy, a national model for afterschool activities.

PASA will host a youth-run AfterZone Carnival Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Pell Chafee Performance Center, located at 87 Empire St., to showcase the skills and work produced by the more than 1,200 children who participated in the program this year.

Hillary Salmons, PASA's executive director, is also one of the panelists in the conference.

She will join Mary Ellen Caron, commissioner of Chicago's Department of Family and Support Services, and Dishon Mills, senior manager of the Boston Public Schools, in discussing Monday afternoon "Envisioning a Full Day of Learning: How Boston, Chicago and Providence are Linking Schools and After School for the Benefit of Young People."

The discussion will be moderated by Nancy Devine, director of communities at The Wallace Foundation in New York, and will include remarks by Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline, who is hosting the conference, and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.

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