El Nido Family Centers
Sabbatical, 1997

Sandra Bankhead is the former Program Director of the El Nido Family Centers, which provides pregnancy prevention services and counseling for parenting teens. She was also the producer and host of To The Point, a Golden Cable Award-winning program shown on Continental Cablevision, which addressed an array of subjects affecting teens and young adults. As a young woman, Sandra herself was a teen mother who raised four children while pursuing a master’s degree in education as a scholarship student at the University of Southern California.

* Sandra has since transitioned out of her role.

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