El Futuro

Mission

El Futuro is a community-based nonprofit organization that seeks to transform Latino-serving mental health care in North Carolina and beyond. We provide bilingual and culturally-responsive mental health services including therapy, psychiatry, substance use treatment, and case management in a welcoming environment of healing and hope.

Founded as a volunteer project by Dr. Luke Smith in 2001 to address the unmet need for bilingual mental health services for North Carolina’s growing Latino immigrant community, we were incorporated as a nonprofit in 2004. Our mission is to nurture stronger familias to live out their dreams.

As North Carolina’s Latino community has grown, so have we. El Futuro is now North Carolina’s leading provider of, and trusted resource for, bilingual and culturally-responsive mental health services. We serve more than 2,500 Latino youth and adults every year through outpatient clinics in Durham and Siler City, and reach more than 53 counties with our telehealth services. Our award-winning team includes more than 25 psychiatrists, therapists, social workers, and case managers, supported by program and administrative staff – all of whom hold El Futuro’s mission close to their heart.

We meet clients where they are with a warm, outstretched hand. Instead of asking “what is your chief complaint?” we ask “what are your dreams?”, engaging those coming to us with a lens of affirmation and transformation.

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