ADHD Program
ADHD Program: Welcome to El Futuro’s ADHD Program Portal. On this page, you will find very useful information focused primarily on parents and guardians of children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Please see below our different resources:
Videos and Handouts about ADHD
We developed a series of videos that are 7 – 8 minutes in length for Spanish-speaking parents of children with ADHD. Each is a conversation between one of our expert clinicians and a parent of a child with ADHD. The videos are honest and answer the questions many parents ask about their children and how they can be helpful. You can view these for free, download the handouts, and also receive a certificate for completing the videos.
El Faro
El Futuro offers a free class for any Spanish speaking parent who has a child with ADHD. This is a 5 week class that is held throughout the year. Participants receive a workbook in the mail and a certificate of completion for attending the classes. Topics include teachings about ADHD, strategies and skills that can help children with ADHD, guidance on getting more support from the school, and many other ways you can help your child overcome the challenges of ADHD.
Digital Workbook
El Futuro has developed a Digital WorkBook resource that is reviewed and followed in the five sessions of the el Faro workshop. You can download this book to work on your own, to use as supporting material for the El Faro Sessions, or to refresh the knowledge obtained after participating in the El Faro sessions. See below the download button and farther down the visualized version of the digital workbook.
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