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February 1, 2024 —The University of Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) was recently awarded four new grants from Porticus and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, benefiting its research and intervention science programs . Totaling over $2.8 million, this funding will...

September 27, 2023— Neil Boothby, the founding director of the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child, and Fr. Lou DelFra, CSC, the director of pastoral life for the Alliance of Catholic Education (ACE), recently hosted a panel discussion alongside Dr. Carrie Quinn, the executive...

Imagine a conversation between a psychologist and priest that investigates how science and faith can converge in ways that help some of the world’s most vulnerable children. Neil Boothby and Fr. Lou DelFra, C.S.C., have that conversation in their new book, Invest in Our Youth . Boothby, the founding...

Neil Boothby, the founding director of the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC), and Hannah Chandler, the center’s associate director of programs, are traveling to Hyderabad, India, to help scale whole child development in hundreds of Social Welfare and Tribal Societies...

The Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child is offering two courses this summer to help parents and students understand whole child development. The GC-DWC has expanded our parent training efforts to five new parish communities in Haiti. Over the course of three months, parents will...