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Joey Travolta’s Inclusion Films has hired respected industry vet Ivey Van Allen-Steinberg to oversee its new marketing and public relations division.

Van-Allen Steinberg’s resume includes her role as former VP of media relations for 20th Television and Fox Television Stations. She’ll spearhead this new division, Inclusion Films Marketing and Public Relations, which will train people with developmental disabilities for jobs in the entertainment industry’s marketing and PR sector.

Through its production workshops, Inclusion Films, founded by Joey Travolta, has been instrumental in placing people with developmental disabilities in jobs at ABC Studios, CBS Studios, NBC, 20th Television and Kapital Entertainment, among other places.

Van-Allen Steinberg, who’s been in the PR end of the business for over 20 years, is currently on Loyola Marymount University’s Special Education Advisory Board — and is the “proud parent of a son with developmental disabilities,” she says.

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Matthew Perry says his an up-close-and-personal brush with group therapy helped him adjust to his new role in “Go On” (in which he plays a therapist).

“I have a sort of non-secretive history of talking about my problems in circles for the last 15 years of my life,” Perry tells People magazine in its Oct. 29 issue (out today on newsstands in New York City — because we rock). “I really got the denial part. It’s a part of my past. I’m not sure it’s a part of my present.”

Perry, 43, is enjoying his run on “Go On,” which has already been picked up for the rest of this season. But, he says, it wasn’t easy to adjust to life after “Friends,” which ended its long run in 2004.

“ ‘Friends’ was a magical thing and no one’s going to ever have anything like that again,” he says. “You have to just search for good projects.” Easier said then done, and Perry knows that, having starred in the short-lived series “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” and “Mr. Sunshine” — with the latter show’s cancellation apparently throwing him into an emotional tailspin (he eventually entered rehab for the third time).

“I’m really grateful, and I have high hopes,” he says of “Go On.”

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Former Ch. 4 sports anchor Len Berman, who appears monthly on the “Today” show, will be inducted into the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame Nov. 1 here in Manhattan. Len recently published his third children’s book, “The Greatest Moments in Sports: Upsets and Underdogs.” His monthly appearances on “Today” encompass his well-known “Spanning The World” sports blooper segments.

And, speaking of “Today,” NBC’s morning show will trace the journeys of four people trying to become US citizens in a week-long series, “Coming to America Today,” beginning Nov. 12. It will culminate with the first-ever live airing of the US naturalization process.

In prime-time, meanwhile, NBC got off to a nice start for the new TV season in adults 18-49 — winning that demo for the first three weeks for its best start since 2002.

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Last, but not least:

* Mariska Hargitay and her Joyful Heart Foundation, along with KIND, will visit Safe Horizon’s Manhattan Child Advocacy Center this Monday to hand-pack hundreds of “healing kits” (backpacks, school supplies) for children who’ve been physically or sexually abused . . . Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking jump from space snared 4.2 million viewers Sunday on Discovery Channel. It added another 3.4 million repeat viewers for a total of 7.6 million . . . Emmy-winning TV host Rita Cosby emcees the German-American Hall of Fame induction ceremonies tonight at Trump Tower (725 Fifth Ave.). Donald Trump will be among the inductees . . . Jerry Springer is stumping for President Obama in Ohio.