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Homeboy Industries began in 1988 as a job training program (called Jobs for a Future) [1] out of Dolores Mission Parish in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California, US.It was created by then-pastor Greg Boyle to offer an alternative to gang life for high-risk youth, who were living in a city (Los Angeles) with the highest concentration of gang activity in the country. [10]
Father Greg Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries, one of the largest gang intervention programs in L.A. County, is expected to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Biden.
1931 photograph of then-new City Hall, with the now-demolished 10-story International Savings Bank to the immediate left [6]. The building was designed by John Parkinson, John C. Austin, and Albert C. Martin, Sr., and was completed in 1928.
At the conclusion of his theology studies, Boyle spent a year living and working with Christian base communities in Cochabamba, Bolivia. [4] Upon his return in 1986, he was appointed pastor of Dolores Mission Church, a Jesuit parish in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles that was then the poorest Catholic church in the city. [5]
Jessi Fernandez prepares for a celebration of 2023 graduates at Homeboy Industries. Fernandez grew up in Boyle Heights and joined a gang at 13, before turning his life around through education.
POWER 106 vs. Homeboy Industries for All-Star Charity Basketball Game Fundraiser Performances by Kid Ink, New Boyz, The Rangers, Clyde Carson, Chi-Town Finest Breakers Saturday, November 3, 2012 ...
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