ADHD / TDAH
A Holistic Approach to ADHD
El Futuro’s ADHD Program offers comprehensive and culturally appropriate services and resources for Latino youth with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and their families.
About our ADHD Services
“El Faro” – The Lighthouse: Classes for parents and guardians developed in conjunction with the Duke University ADHD Program, where we review different strategies for managing the behavior of children with ADHD. There are eight meetings, once a week, FREE, virtual, and in Spanish. This class is open to the community.
Presentations in schools and organizations: Dissemination and training on addressing ADHD with Hispanic families. For interested parties, write to tschlez@elfuturo-nc.org or msuero@elfuturo-nc.org
**Our Couching, Medical treatment, and School Support services are available for current patients. If you need any of those services you are welcome to come to any of our clinics during walk-in hours and will be assigned to any of these services according to your need: Siler City walk-in hours: Monday and Tuesday from 10 am-12:00 pm and/or Durham walk-in hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9 am-11:30 am
Materials and Resources
Podcast: How to prepare your children with ADHD for school success. Click here to listen
Podcast: What happens to parents when they hear that their child has ADHD? Click here to listen
Videos: On the “Resources” section of this website, you will find a series of videos of less than 10 minutes that we created together with expert mothers, about ADHD.
Testimonials
“I felt alone and lost before I found El Futuro and their ADHD services and classes. My child now is doing great. I’m so proud!”
“I loved the El Faro class! I learned a lot, I identified with many mothers like me, with their worries and their pain, I felt understood, I cried when I heard other testimonies because it was like listening to myself. It was such a relief because I felt supported.”
Alvely Alcántara, LCSW
Rossy C. Garcia, MEd 
Katy Sims, MD 
Everardo Aviles, LCSW, LCAS (Eve)
As a medical anthropologist and social work researcher, Dr. Gulbas’ research embodies interdisciplinarity through the integration of applied theories of health and human development with qualitative and ethnographic methodologies. Her work seeks to understand how people—children, families, and providers—navigate complex sociocultural landscapes in the pursuit of mental health. Most of her work, to date, focuses attention on developing more robust interpretations of suicide risk. With funding from the National Institutes of Mental Health, this body of research has contributed to advancements in theoretical and empirical knowledge of the broader contexts within which youth suicide risk is situated. 
R. Gabriela Barajas-Gonzalez is a developmental psychologist and an assistant professor of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Barajas-Gonzalez is the principal investigator of a study that examines the impact of immigration-related threat and stress on school communities. She earned a PhD in developmental psychology from Columbia University and hold a BA in human biology from Stanford University. Dr. Barajas-Gonzalez is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and a first gen college student.
Dr. Parra-Cardona is an Associate Professor in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work (SHSSW) at the University of Texas at Austin. At the SHSSW, he serves as Coordinator for Mexico and Latin American initiatives. He also serves as Area Director for Research at the UT Austin Latino Research Institute. Dr. Parra-Cardona’s program of research is focused on the cultural adaptation of evidence-based parenting interventions for low-income Latinx populations in the US and Latin America.
Bianka Reese, PhD, MSPH is a research scientist and program evaluator specializing in adolescent and young adult sexual and reproductive health. Her previous research in the experiences of Latinx LGBTQ+ youth stems from her work as the Research and Evaluation Manager at SHIFT NC (Sexual Initiatives For Teens), where she led largescale evaluations of multilevel, community-based sexual health promotion initiatives and research projects aimed at elevating the voices of diverse youth in North Carolina. Dr. Reese is currently the Senior Research Strategist at Creative Research Solutions, LLC, an award-winning national evaluation, research, and assessment firm.
Tania Connaughton-Espino, MPH is an independent researcher focused on adolescent and young adult sexual and reproductive health. Her interest in the experiences of Latinx LGBTQ+ youth stems from her previous work with SHIFT NC (Sexual Initiatives For Teens), where she led the training and evaluation department, conducted capacity-building workshops for youth serving professionals including on the topic of how to be more affirming of LGBTQ youth, and from her extensive experience working with the Latinx population in NC.
Maru Gonzalez, EdD is an Assistant Professor and Youth Development Specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences at North Carolina State University. Her areas of inquiry include youth development with a focus on activism, social justice, and the experiences of LGBTQ+ young people across familial, school, and community contexts. 
Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, PhD
Hector Y. Adames, PsyD