Get Acquainted with El Futuro
New or potential volunteers can click on the slideshow below to learn about our work at El Futuro: Volunteer Orientation Slideshow
Contact Information
Task Average time needed to complete
- Schedule appointments, make reminder calls* 1 - 2 hours
- Screening/Triage appointments* 1 - 2 hours
- File paperwork for staff 15 - 20min
- Manage telephone* Variable
- Help with accounting, enter data into computer 1 - 2 hours
- Clinical data entry and analysis 2 - 3 hours
- Close charts* 15 - 20 min
- Help with outreach at Latino festivals* 3 - 4 hours
* Signifies those activities that require Spanish
We love our volunteers!
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Meet our Current Volunteers!
Yvonne White
...is a junior at UNC Chapel Hill and majoring in Psychology. She is from Salisbury, NC, which is a small town but would like to live in a big city when she gets older. She also enjoys spending time with friends and family. After college, she plans to attend graduate school for Community Psychology. With her doctorate, she plans to help empower the Latino community, especially recent immigrants, to achieve the American dream by finding solutions to problems affecting them.
Yvonne is all smiles when it comes to El Futuro
Rebecca Clay
...is a junior Spanish and Women's Studies Major from Durham, NC. She spent last summer in Nicaragua living and working on an organic farm and also visited the beautiful city of Oaxaca, MX. Rebecca is an avid tennis player and reader, as well as an aspiring fiction writer. She loves to go hiking and camping with her family, as well as make food and share it with friends and family. She is currently studing abroad in Chile during her junior year of college, and cannot wait to start volunteering at El Futuro again in the Spring!
Rebecca found her inner child at El Futuro!
Don Hartman
...lives in nearby Chapel Hill and comes to El Futuro every week to not only lift our spirits a little higher but also to roll up his sleeves and help! He also volunteers at UNC Hospital as a interpretor and is an avid musician and performer. Don lived in Mexico for 15 years as he led an international business.
You can catch Don at El Futuro every Wednesday morning
Angela Hobart
...is a junior at UNC majoring in Business Administration and History with a minor in Spanish. She is from Fairfax, VA, right outside Washington, D.C. She isn't sure yet what she plans to do with her degree after college, but she loves to travel and hopes to live and work abroad for some time. She will study abroad in summer 2009 in Sevilla, Spain and Greece. She enjoys bikram (heated) yoga, reading and spending time with family and friends. She is a self-declared nerd and proud of it and looks forward to giving back to the local community at El Futuro.
Angela gets the call to come volunteer at El Futuro
Wendy Gonzalez
...is a junior at UNC Chapel Hill, double majoring in International Studies and Spanish. She lived in Mexico until she was 5 years old and is very proud of her Latin culture. She is one of five girls and her family and enjoys spending as much time as possible with them. On campus she is involved with the Carolina Hispanic Association and absolutely loves meeting other Hispanic students. After college she plans to attend law school and study immigration law. She loves to share her passion about immigration issues and education by helping out however she can. Through volunteering at El Futuro she hopes to gain knowledge and experience working with the Latino community!
Wendy steps forward from the crowd to volunteer at the Futuro!
Mae Lynn Reyes, PhD,
...completed her training at the University of Puerto Rico with specialization in two fields: Research and Clinical psychology. In August 2008, she obtained a Minority Supplement for two years from the National Institute of Mental Health to adapt eating disorders treatment for the Latino population in North Carolina. Currently, she is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Eating Disorders Program at UNC. She enjoys both listening to music and also singing! For Mae Lynn, volunteering at El Futuro is a great way for her to help Latino immigrants. She has also found it to be a good way to deal with her own acculturation process since coming from Puerto Rican because she misses the sun, the food and the parties! Mae Lynn volunteers her time by providing triage and screening interviews of individuals who come to El Futuro looking for help.
Mae Lynn smiling about her work with El Futuro!
Cathy Lee, MD
...is a 1st year child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at UNC Hospital who now volunteers several times a month at El Futuro. Like Elena, she also trained with us last year through the year-long AHEC program. In the Spring she is overseeing a patient education initiative in collaboration with Harvard University.
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Stephanie Smith
...is a senior Biology major and Spanish minor at UNC-Chapel Hill. She was born in Hollywood, Florida but has spent most of her life in Pennsylvania and Greensboro, North Carolina. When she’s not studying for the MCAT, Stephanie enjoys reading, being in the sun, cooking, and anything that involves children. After graduating, she has plans to take a year off and volunteer in South America before continuing on to medical school. Stephanie plans to pursue a career in neonatology and hopes to incorporate Spanish in whatever she does. She is thrilled to be a part of El Futuro!
Stephanie smiling her way to El Futuro!
Alicia Mullis
....is a junior Psychology major with a double minor in biology and Arabic at UNC-Chapel Hill. She loves to write, play clarinet and piano, dance, travel work in the lab, and train for triathlons. In the past she has taught swimming lessons in Spanish to Latino children and has also worked at WCOM radio station, designing a series of radio programs to teach English to native Spanish-speakers. She also taught Spanish classes in her hometown Greenville, NC to members of her church who wanted to use their Spanish to do volunteer work. She is unsure of where all of her diverse interests will take her, but hopes that whatever career she chooses will allow her to use her Spanish and is excited about getting the chance to do so through volunteering with el futuro while learning more about the mental health care system.
Alicia enjoys monkeying around at El Futuro!
Michelle Roley
...graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Psychology and an emphasis in Pan African Studies from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio in May 2008. Currently she is the Lab Manager for The AAKOMA (African American Knowledge Optimized for Mindfully-Healthy Adolescents) Project at the Duke Child and Family Study Center in Durham NC. Ms. Roley plans to attend graduate school for a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology as part of her goal of developing culturally relevant evidence-based interventions accessible to underserved adolescents and their families that will eliminate depression health disparities. Ms. Roley is volunteering at El Futuro globally, because she values the work that El Futuro is doing and wants to be a part of a movement that is so awesome! Personally, because she enjoys learning from and immersing herself in many cultures and spiritually and professionally, because she has a calling to serve communities affected by health disparities.
Past volunteers
- Brandy Davila
- Hai-Tan Le
- Faraaz Khan
- Lindsay Alexander
- Megan Bookhout
- Lauren Bruton
- Peter Burkill
- Laura Clay
- Katelyn Dougherty
- Daniel Hall
- Elliott Hicks
- Andrew Kinghorn
- Mike Koren
- Marita Malm Morgan
- Katie Mariategui
- Amy Marietta
- Alli O'Connell
- Elena Perea
- Craig Riegelhaupt
- Jeff Sibrack
- Juan Pablo Velez
- Ethan Webman
- Laura Ziemmer
