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The GC-DWC chairs the Measuring What Matters Learning Partnership (MWM-LP), which brings together senior policymakers and practitioners to create strategies and applied tools to improve whole child development efforts in low and middle income countries, and is excited to share the report from this...

The Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) and ACE Haiti are pleased to share their open-source collection of radio distance-learning programs, developed in response to COVID-19-prompted school closures in Haiti. “Students and families in Haiti are faced with the challenge of...

Last week, the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child joined its global colleagues in the second annual Measuring what Matters Learning Partnership convening. Although COVID-19 moved the weeklong convening to a virtual platform, partners used the time to engage in discussions over...

With widespread school closures and stay-at-home social distancing, there has never been a greater need for quality children’s programming. The Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child is pleased to share the launch of Akili Network’s Akili Kids , a free-to-air children’s television...

Dr. Neil Boothby is a psychologist and founding director of the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child at the University of Notre Dame. He is an internationally recognized expert and advocate for children affected by war and displacement. Kate Schuenke-Lucien is the Director for Haiti...

Dr. Neil Boothby, the founding director of the Fostering Resilience Initiative, presented "Creating Healthy Brains" on Friday, November 1st in Remick Commons in Visitation Hall at the University of Notre Dame.