From daring to compete as a race car driver to discovering how the transactional nature through which children’s interactions with their family, community, and culture can shape the course of their development. Dr. Kristin Valentino, Director of the William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families...

A team led by Dr. Kristin Valentino has been awarded a $50,000 grant to study child-abuse prevention programs in Catholic elementary schools. The grant is one of 11 awarded as part of the University’s response to the clergy sexual abuse scandal. Valentino, the director of the Shaw Center for...