Bienvenido curriculum for adolescents program evaluation

Francisco J Limon, Purdue University

Abstract

The Bienvenido curriculum was developed by Gilberto Perez under the auspices of the Northeastern Center Inc. The goals of the Bienvenido program for adolescents are a) to facilitate school integration, b) to facilitate community integration, and c) to enhance family processes. This program evaluation measured the impact of program participation on family communication, parental closeness and parental monitoring, community integration, self management, and school integration. Participants were youth identified as experiencing acculturation stress. The sample consisted of 32 participants who completed the program. The curriculum was found to be effective in promoting feelings of closeness between program participants and their mothers, but the opposite occurred with participants' fathers. The program was also effective in increasing parental monitoring behaviors of their children's activities whether they were perceived or real. There was no evidence of program effectiveness in the areas of community and school integration, or self-efficacy. There was no evidence of any correlation between religiosity and family dynamics. It is advised to interpret these results with caution because of the small sample used for the study, problems with the reliability of some of the scales used, and the fact that the assessment instrument was not tested and validated for this population.

Degree

M.S.

Advisors

Nalbone, Purdue University.

Subject Area

Educational sociology|Behavioral psychology|Individual & family studies

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