Daniel L. Daly, Ph.D

Executive Vice President and Director of Youth Care at Father Flanagan’s Boys Home
Secretary and Fund Raising Co-Chair

Appointed by: Father Flanagan Boys Home

Dr. Daly has been one of the principal architects of Boys Town’s science-based youth care and education programs. He directs the Youth Care Department of the world famous Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home. The Youth Care Department served over 46,000 children in 19 locations across the United States in 2007. Headquartered in Nebraska, Boys Town is one of the largest providers of services to at-risk children in the United States.

His primary influence on national policy and program development is an insistence that child care and service programs go beyond custodial, palliative care to outcome producing services. This insistence on research-based and outcome producing services helps Boys Town and the thousands of agencies and schools it trains to provide positive outcomes.

Dr. Daly acquired a doctorate in Clinical Psychology at West Virginia University in 1973. As a U.S. Army Captain, he served as a psychologist working with service persons returning from Viet Nam and their dependents at Irvin Army Hospital in Ft. Riley, KS. Dr. Daly joined Boys Town in 1975 where he has held numerous leadership positions in such areas as clinical work, research, and program dissemination.

During his tenure at Boys Town, Dr. Daly presented over 150 papers at scientific and service conferences, authored or co-authored over 80 articles, book chapters and training manuals. He was on faculty at Kansas University for over 15 years. His areas of expertise are juvenile delinquency, adolescent mental health, and dissemination of evidence-based programs.

Dr. Daly has supervised and trained thousands of professionals and paraprofessionals in the application of outcome producing youth care and education programs in over 35 states. He has assisted Boys Town in promoting practice-based, clinical service and research activity throughout the USA and several foreign countries.