L.A.'s Homeboy Industries Intervenes With Gang-Involved Youth
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention:
Homeboy Industries is a job-training program that educates, trains, and finds jobs for at-risk and gang-involved youth.
Through its Gang Reduction Program (GRP), OJJDP supports a number of local gang prevention and intervention programs.
An example of successful federal and local coordination, Homeboy Industries receives funds from the City of Los Angeles, Office of the Mayor, the GRP grantee, to continue and strengthen its youth gang intervention services.
Located in the gang-afflicted East L.A. community of Boyle Heights, Homeboy Industries offers gang-involved and at-risk youth the opportunity to become productive members of society through a variety of employment-centered services.
In remarks given at the 2005 White House Conference on Helping America's Youth, Father Boyle relayed the story of his meeting with one young man who was helped by the program.
