What is the El Camino program?
This video provides a brief overview of the El Camino program, including descriptions of its purpose and how it was designed. The content highlights El Camino’s impact from the perspective of students who previously participated in it.
This video builds on the content of the shorter version and includes more information on El Camino’s history, the development of its curriculum, and the research study on its implementation. The video highlights the importance of and need for a Positive Youth Development sexual health promotion program targeted toward Latino youth and Spanish-language speakers. Video contents include interviews of people connected to the program in multiple capacities to showcase program evaluation and preliminary research findings; among the interviewees are two students who participated in the program, the program manager, a program facilitator, and a Child Trends researcher.
¿Qué es el programa El Camino?
Este video ofrece una visión general del programa El Camino, incluyendo descripciones de su propósito y cómo se diseñó. El contenido destaca el impacto de El Camino desde la perspectiva de estudiantes que han participado en él.
Este video se basa en el contenido de la versión más corta e incluye más información sobre la historia de El Camino, el desarrollo de su plan de estudios y el estudio de investigación sobre su implementación. El video resalta la importancia y la necesidad de un programa de promoción de salud sexual del desarrollo juvenil positivo, dirigido a jóvenes latinos e hispanohablantes. El contenido del video incluye entrevistas con personas conectadas con el programa en múltiples capacidades para mostrar la evaluación del programa y los hallazgos preliminares de la investigación; entre los entrevistados se encuentran dos estudiantes que participaron en el programa, un director del programa, un facilitator del programa, y un investigador de Child Trends.
Project Credits
Direction, Writing, and Narration: Tina Plaza-Whoriskey
Video editing: Gabriella Guerra
Production: Shaniah Smith
We thank the students, program facilitators, and staff at our partnering organization, Identity, Inc., who contributed to these videos by filming their classrooms during implementation, conducting informational interviews about program roles, reviewing and providing feedback on video drafts, and coordinating logistics for photography and videography of students at school. We specifically thank the Identity staff who appeared in the video, Majo Lizarzaburu and Chris Gates, as well as our El Camino participants, Wilbur and Edvin.
This video and the El Camino Rigorous Evaluation were supported by Grant Number 5 TP2AH00007-03-00 from the HHS Office of Population Affairs. Contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Department of Health and Human Services or the Office of Population Affairs.