Siempre Adelante, TTUHSC

Purpose

Siempre Adelante (Ever Onward), TTUHSC is a comprehensive mentorship program that fosters community and academic achievement through internal and external partnerships. The program is committed to implementing evidence-based practices for advancing student success with an emphasis in personal and profesisonal development, centering competencies in Spanish language, psychosocial support, and university navigation. Siempre Adelante, TTUHSC is a Title V Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Initiative supported by the U.S. Department of Education.

Vision

Foster a community of current and future health care professionals collectively driven towards academic excellence.

Program Model

Siempre Adelante, TTUHSC cultivates a paradigm shift of institutional values through mentoring, coaching, tutoring, engagement and cultural competency by equipping learners with foundational building blocks in medical Spanish and cultural immersion raising the level of critical consciousness of a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).

Siempre Adelante Program Model depicting faculty mentors who support peer mentors. This support ultimately cascades into development for peer mentees, who are depicted in the model as evolving learners.

Program Goals

Goal 1: Mentorship

Implement a dual function, hybrid and multi-transitional mentoring program designed to facilitate recruitment, and retention of students by fostering a sense of belonging and inclusion through strong team mentors, advisors, and faculty.

Goal 2: Student Services

Develop and implement student success pathways that integrate multiple comprehensive and evidence-based services to ensure student success.

Goal 3: Team Development

Provide evidence-based professional development opportunities for faculty and staff.

Our Team

Debra Flores

Debra Flores, Ph.D.
Program Director
Phone: (806) 743-7500

Emma Louise Steiner, DMA
Adelante Advocate
Phone: (806) 743-1731
Office: 3B352, Lubbock HSC