Safety and Psychosocial Support
Early Childhood Education Summer Camp
The GC-DWC's early childhood education summer camp in Haiti, utilizes play based learning as an instrument to transform the classroom and school culture into a fun and safe environment for children to learn.
Measuring What Matters: Michael Ward
Outline of WCD within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Framework and the importance of furthering SDG Target 4.7: sustainable development and global citizenship.
Measuring What Matters: Ramya Vivekanandan
An overview of the challenges of supporting equitable education in developing countries.
Measuring What Matters: Rowena Phair
A summary of on-going work in longitudinal assessment of SEL and the complimentary found between SEL and cognitive development.
Measuring What Matters: Kanthi Krishnamurthy
Overview of the interventions led by Dream a Dream and the importance of policy advocacy in India.
Positive Parenting (Systems Activation Highlight)
Parents are a child's first teacher. At the GC-DWC, we recognize the importance of the role that parents and caregivers play in their children's overall development and well-being. Learn more about parent and caregiving workshop initiatives in Haiti.
Community Resource Centers (Systems Activation Spotlight)
In partnership with local communities, the GC-DWC has established solar-powered community resource centers that include digital and non-digital Haitian language learning material. These resource centers are community owned and managed, providing a continuous opportunity for learning and development.
Baptism & ECD (Systems Activation Spotlight)
Recognizing that each Catholic parish in Haiti runs a school and is deeply embedded in local culture and home life, the GC-DWC works with local parish priests to integrate contextually relevant early childhood education materials into baptismal training.
Success Starts at Home: Positive Discipline | Sikse kòmanse lakay- disiplin pozitif
A positive parenting video, in Haitian Creole, that shares practical insights and tips for how parents can integrate positive discipline into their daily lives.
Success Starts at Home: Activities that will Build a Solid Foundation | Sikse kòmanse lakay - Aktivite ki pou bati yon fondasyon solid
A positive parenting video, in Haitian Creole, that shares ideas and tips for how parents can integrate learning into everyday life and prepare their children for future success.
Experience Builds Brain Architecture | Eksperyans yon timoun fè kontribye nan konstwi chapant sèvo li
A video, in Haitian Creole, that using neuroscience to explain how early experiences impact our bodies and brains, providing the foundation for healthy development.
L3 Equity Initiative in Haiti
The GC-DWC Haiti activates parish networks to meet children’s holistic needs at all three levels of their social ecology: the home (lakay), school (lekòl), and church (legliz) or L3. Innovative interventions occur within the L3 system and include everything from integrating child development and positive parenting messages into sermons and baptismal preparation courses to introducing nutrition education and resources to combat stunting within schools to creating community resource centers for play and learning.
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Fluid Families and Harshness as Adaptation in Haitian Childcare: An Approach to Improving Life Outcomes for Haitian Children (2022), Parenting Across Cultures
Kate Schuenke-Lucien*, Abigail Mills*, and Bryanna Beamer
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“I always tell my children to learn from me”: Parental engagement in social and emotional learning in Malawi (2022), International Journal of Educational Research
Jeongmin Lee*
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"I can teach what’s in the book”: Understanding the why and how behind teachers’ implementation of a social‐emotional learning (SEL) focused curriculum in rural Malawi (2021), British Journal of Educational Psychology
Lee, J.*, and Simmons Zuilkowski, S.
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Developing and Validating the International Social and Emotional Learning Assessment: Evidence from a Pilot Test with Syrian Refugee Children in Iraq (December 2021), Journal on Education in Emergencies
Nikhit D'Sa*, and Allyson Krupar
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What’s faith got to do with it? A scoping study on local faith communities supporting child development and learning (January 2021), International Journal of Educational Development
T.J. D'Agostino, Nikhit D'Sa*, and Neil Boothby*
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Causes of family separation and barriers to reunification: Syrian refugees in Jordan (July 2020), Journal of Refugee Studies.
Hannah Chandler*, Neil Boothby*, Zahirah McNatt, Margaret Berrigan, Laura Zebib, Patricia Elaine Freels, Hamza Alshannaq, Noor Majdalani, Ahmed Mahmoud, and Esraa Majd
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Adopt, contextualize, or adapt? Understanding the complexities of modifying or developing a measure of children’s social and emotional competencies in the NISSEM Global Briefs (September 2019), NISSEM
Nikhit D'Sa*
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“What’s happening in Syria even affects the rocks”: a qualitative study of the Syrian refugee experience accessing noncommunicable disease services in Jordan (June 2019), Conflict and Health
Z. McNatt, PE. Freels, H. Chandler,*, M Fawad, S. Qarmout, AS. Al-Oraibi, N. Al-Tammi, and N. Boothby*
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INEE Guidance Note on Psychosocial Support (June 2018), Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
Zahirah McNatt, Dr. Neil Boothby*, Dr. Mike Wessells, and Rita Lo
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Rethinking Child Protection in Emergencies (May 2018), International Journal of Child Health and Nutrition
Cyril Bennouna, Hana-Tina Fischer, Michael Wessells, and Neil Boothby*
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Impact of Separation on Refugee Families: Syrian Refugees in Jordan (April 2018), Columbia Global Centers
Zahirah McNatt, Neil Boothby*, Hamza Al-Shannaq, Hannah Chandler*, Patricia Freels, Ahmed S. Mahmoud, Noor Majdalani, and Laura Zebib
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Monitoring and reporting attacks on education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia (August 2017), Disasters
Cyril Bennouna, Elburg van Boetzelaer, Lina Rojas, Kinyera Richard, Gang Karume, Marius Nshombo, Leslie Roberts, and Neil Boothby*
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What are the most effective early response strategies and interventions to assess and address the immediate needs of children outside of family care? (October 2012), Child Abuse and Neglect
Cyril Bennouna, Hana-Tina Fischer, Michael Wessells, and Neil Boothby*
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Coordinated and evidence-based policy and practice for protecting children outside of family care (October 2012), Child Abuse and Neglect
Neil Boothby*, Robert L. Balster, Philip Goldman, Michael G. Wessells, Charles H. Zeanahe, and Gillian Huebner
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The impact of the school-based Psychosocial Structured Activities (PSSA) program on conflict-affected children in northern Uganda (May 2011) The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Alastair Ager, Bree Akesson, Lindsay Stark, Eirini Flouri, Braxton Okot, Faith McCollister, and Neil Boothby*
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