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Keeping Families Together Coordinator Terri Vann issued her 2016 review of the multi-faceted, inter-agency approach to reducing risks and improving health, education and other factors in the community, an initiative now in its fifth year.

There’s a scene in the play “Good People,” on stage at CAST, in which two friends from the same South Boston neighborhood debate why one of them succeeded in life and the other didn’t — how one got “a leg up.” Hard work is one thing, but to what extent do circumstances determine how we fare later on?