Join us at 6:30 for a panel discussion with unaccompanied minors from Homies Unidos’ Central American Youth Council, who will talk about their experience. They will share their stories and work they are doing now to help others as they integrate into our community, schools and homes.
You can help us reach our goal
In solidarity with Central American Refugees (CAR), Homies Unidos is proposing to put together the first locally-accessible Central American Young Women Project. The main purpose will be to ensure that these refugee young women feel welcomed, provide health resources and on-the-spot referrals, build a supportive community, and create opportunities for positive feedback and self-esteem-building.
Our Pitch
Homies Unidos is grateful and proud of being part of our community achievements, we have done so much with your support which its been vital, without the Central American Youth Council we would not have done this. Although we are gaining momentum in some communities of Los Angeles, there is still a stronger need to empower young indigenous women in South Central, Westlake and Pico-Union.
Central American Young Women are asking for space for/by/with them, to flourish all their abilities, skills and accomplish their thousand times broken dreams due to unaccounted violence, abuse, that has prevented them to have a sense of identity and build together the needed popular power, to redefine a clear road to recovery, equality and unity within their own selves, families and communities. Frequently we indicate the unaccompanied minors’ epiphany, we have devoted considerate resources and hearts to support their cause to survive, progress and have a better future. Nevertheless, it is an endless road of challenges, we have realized that we are slowly making progress as a community by creating social services centralized for boys but not specific for young girls, which would bring awareness to gender, race, identity and cultural biases.
The Central American Young Women Project would map the road to self-awareness and women, cultural identity and origins, how to prevent violence and sexual abuse, teen pregnancy, lack of jobs, professional development and many other issues that ultimately rest on the hands and arms of the future women of our communities, women are essential and the soul of our communities’ strengths and weaknesses. The young women of today and the future women of tomorrow that have to have a specific space to pave the community recovery, healing and self-recognition of its potential, with the unquestionable gifts and contributions of the Young Women. They will go trough the Xinachtli curriculum for young women, the Youth Leadership Program and the II Central American Youth Leadership Conference, to eventually consolidate the Central American Youth Council in conjunction with the young men.
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How We’ll Put Your Donations to Work
Homies Unidos is already doing the work with 7 girls out of 30 participants in two high schools, which is better this year in comparison with one from last year. But they are included within The Joven Noble curriculum, which is mostly for young boys. Regardless we achieve or not the whole goal, the funds will be focus in human investment, with the goal to compensate with stipends some of the most committed young women and Homies Unidos staff. They will have to reassess the needs, readapt the curriculum, build a proper work plan and implement the project starting this summer.
The major people contribution is getting the word out, sharing our campaign with all their social media and personal contacts.
With your monetary help, we’ll raise funds to continue helping unaccompanied minors integrate into their community, homes and schools. We will be able to remove tattoo of young man and women who now enjoy a better employment and have reduced the possibilities of being a target of violence or police harassment.
If you make a gift online today, we will be able to continue helping our community in stopping another cycle of violence and empower our members to become agents of change.
Homies Unidos started reaching out to schools and community service providers to refer CAR youth who needs mental health or legal services. As part of a preventive strategy we will begin implementing the National Compadres Network’s Xichatcli curriculum,Through this fundraiser we will address the needs of our young women where they can share experiences and be introduced to health and legal services providers among other resources.
Hispanics In Philanthropy Matching Program
$5,000 in Matching Funds on Tuesday, March 29th!
We will be offering the funds in 5 increments of $1,000 USD at the following times:
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The School of The Americas(SOA) Watch Vigil is held every year in November. This year, it is being held from November 21-23. Thousands of individuals come together at the gates of the SOA and commemorate martyrs in
Latin America who lost their lives; such as the Jesuit priests in El Salvador and thousands of Guatemalan indigenous people due to training of Latin American military battalions trained by the U.S. SOA in Columbus, Georgia. Through our presence at this vigil, Homies Unidos members will learn to be advocates for Human Rights, hear from survivors of torture, and meet courage’s men and women who have been fighting to stop militarization in Central America during the 1980s. They will take part in a panel to speak of their ordeal as unaccompanied minors and the connection of U.S. continued involvement in destabilizing of the region.
Meet Jonathan at the School of the Americas Watch Vigil
These youth also took part of our Joven Noble rites of passage program and the Youth Leadership Training during the summer. They were the main organizer of the Central American Youth Leadership Conference this past September 19th. They are now forming the Central American Youth Council in which they will be working to address issues of Central American youth.
This is Homies Unidos 2nd participation of the vigil; in 2014 we took three youth. We drove back and stopped in different places to speak with community organizer working in labor issues in New Orleans, Immigrant issues in Arizona. Daniela Ojeda, one of the past participants, will be educating the new participants on her experience and will be join in us. Click to learn more
Central American Youth Leadership Conference
September 19, 2015
9AM-5PM
Central American Youth Speak at la Fiesta Juliana in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles
If you know a youth who will benefit from the resources that will be provided at the conference you can now register at:
Youth must register to receive a free lunch, t-shirt and event bag at the event
More to come… email us if you would like to be a sponsor at pguadron@homiesunidos.org
Central American youth and families from various schools will benefit from the resource fair, health resources, educational workshops and cultural activities provided by organizations and the youth themselves.
We want to thank HIPGive and all who have supported our fund drive.
If you want to be a sponsor for the conference, please contact us for
In solidarity with Central American Refugees (CAR), Homies Unidos is proposing to put together the first locally-accessible Central American Youth Leadership Conference. The main purpose will be to ensure that these refugee youth feel welcomed, to celebrate and promote Central American art and culture, provide health resources and on-the-spot referrals, facilitate a legal resources workshop, showcase their stories and experiences, build a supportive community, and create opportunities for positive feedback and self-esteem-building.
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Homies Unidos started reaching out to schools and community service providers to refer CAR youth who needs mental health or legal services. As part of a preventive strategy we began implementing the National Compadres Network’s Joven Noble curriculum, character development program to provide a safe space where they can express themselves with indigenous traditional tools. Even though, with limited resources we have served over 58 youth in four different schools: Santee High, Hawthorne High, Hawkins High and L.A. River. Through this Conference we will address the need to bring youth from other schools where to a place where they can share experiences and be introduced to health and legal services providers among other resources.
Please give!
LETS MAKE THIS HAPPEN!
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More to come… email us if you would like to be a sponsor at pguadron@homiesunidos.org
In solidarity with Central American Refugees (CAR), Homies Unidos is proposing to put together the first locally-accessible Central American Youth Conference. The main purpose will be to ensure that these refugee youth feel welcomed, to celebrate and promote Central American art and culture, provide health resources and on-the-spot referrals, facilitate a legal resources workshop, showcase their stories and experiences, build a supportive community, and create opportunities for positive feedback and self-esteem-building. 
With your support we will be able to:
Homies Unidos started reaching out to schools and community service providers to refer CAR youth who needs mental health or legal services. As part of a preventive strategy we began implementing the National Compadres Network’s Joven Noble curriculum, character development program to provide a safe space where they can express themselves with indigenous traditional tools. Even though, with limited resources we have served over 58 youth in four different schools: Santee High, Hawthorne High, Hawkins High and L.A. River. Through this Conference we will address the need to bring youth from other schools where to a place where they can share experiences and be introduced to health and legal services providers among other resources.
Up to $5,000
in matching funds
Firs Hour $2,500 June 9th during 12:00-4:00 PM PT (3:00-7:00 ET)
Second Hour $2,500 July 9th 12:00-4:00 PM PT (3:00-7:00 PM ET)
The two organizations that present the most creative and compelling
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Homies Unidos has advocated for just policies to deal with the issue of violence that plagues not just the streets of Los Angeles but also the streets of Central America. We will be joining School of The Americas Watch in their mission to close down this school that has trained many dictators an assassins throughout Latin America. As part of our Youth Leadership training on civic engagement, we will be taking five youth who have graduated from our program to Columbus, GA and will be presenting on how, what happens in Latin America, affects our youth in the streets of Los Angeles. We will be screening the Fruits of War documentary and educating people from all parts of the U.S. about the work that Homies Unidos does and at the same time creating leaders of our youth who at one point where disfranchised and now are developing into advocates for social justice.
Help us raise the funds to take our youth to have this once in a lifetime amazing experience. DONATE NOW
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Concert “VOS SOS MI CANTO” dedicated to children detained in the centers of migration. On October 4th we will start 5:30PM with a Immigration forum. We have organize two shows, 7PM and 9:30 pm, with the collaboration of distinguished Central American artists (see below), we will also collect basic necessities that children need in a detention center we are partnering with, the proceeds of the concert will be used for training and transportation . for more info
Please send your representative in the California senate a message that solitary confinement is an inhumane act that needs to stop. That Hancock’s SB982 will make it a law for anyone suspected to be part of any prison group or what they call Security Threat Groups to be segregated in a secure housing unit without having committed any violation of any serious crime.
Although this bill also has important amendments to what is now in place, listed below, we suggest people not supported under its current form.
SB982 has Important issues but it is undermined by the codification of security threat groups:
Increased oversight and accountability.
Integrity and fair treatment in detention decisions.
Humane conditions in the SHUs (Security Housing Units, or solitary confinement).
Positive incentives for inmates to change their lives.
– See more at: http://sd09.senate.ca.gov/news/2014-04-08-senate-committee-passes-major-reform-solitary-confinement-ca-prisons-0#sthash.iKz0ziqV.dpuf
The link below make suggestions to this bill. Letter to Senators re Hancock SB 892 (4-25-14)
Suggested Amendments:
Read More:http://www.centerforhumanrights.org/PDFs/4-25-14%20Harmonized_Hancock-Ammiano_Bill.pdf
Contact your local representative and let him know your thoughts on SB892
To find your representative in Sacramento: http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
Information in English Below:
Homies Unidos y el Consulado de El Salvador les invita a una noche informativa para apoyar la Asociación Salvadoreña De Apoyo a Privados De Libertad En El Exterior (ASAPLE) es una organización en El Salvador que aboga para los derechos humanos de familiares Salvadoreños detenidos en las prisiones de California. Homies Unidos se ha unido a coordinar el trabajo de la Directora de ASAPLE, Elisa Jurado en Los Ángeles.
Hay cientos de gente en las prisiones en California y muchos de ellos ya cumplieron sus sentencias, pero no los dejan salir, Unos se encuentran con enfermedades terminales y no reciben tratamiento apropiado, otros sufren violaciones de sus derechos humanos. La Sra. Elisa Jurado por más de ocho años ha estado luchando ganar la libertad de estos ciudadanos Salvadoreños. El Apoyo que reciben al llegar a El Salvador les ayuda a poder hacer la transición apropiada para no delinquir y ser ciudadanos productibles.
En un crimen hay más de una víctima, la familia de la víctima y el la familia de el victimario sufren el dolor de perder a su ser querido. Únanse con nosotros el sábado 28 de septiembre y escuchen las historias de nuestras familias mientras recaudamos fondos apoyar este importante trabajo. Tendremos una venta de yarda de 8-3PM el mismo día en el mismo lugar.
Los Angeles Workers Center
1251 South Saint Andrews Place,
Los Angeles, CA. 90019
$5 donacion minima
Parking en la calle
Checks can be made out to Homies Unidos Inc.
Correo: 2105 Beverly Blvd Ste. 219 Los Angeles CA 90057
Comida y Bevidas
Contact: Alex Sanchez 213-793-1050
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English: Homies Unidos and the Consulate of El Salvador invites you to an informative evening to support the Salvadoran Association in Support of Freedom Deprived People in the Exterior (ASAPLE) an organization in El Salvador, which advocates for the rights of Salvadoran relatives detained in the prisons of California. Homies Unidos has joined to coordinate the work of the Director of ASAPLE, and it’s Executive Director Elizza Jurado in Los Angeles. There are hundreds of people in prisons in California prisons who have already met their require sentences, but are not being let out, some are with terminal illnesses and do not receive appropriate treatment, others suffer violations of their human rights. Ms. Elizza Jurado for more than eight years has been fighting to win the freedom of these Salvadoran citizens. Come and learn of the work being done to help the transition of our citizens coming out of prison to become productive citizens in El Salvador. In a crime, there is more than one victim, the victim’s family and the family of the offender is suffering the pain of losing their love ones. Join us on Saturday, September 28 and hear stories of our families while we raise funds to support this important work. We will have a yard sale from 8-3 PM at the same day in the same place. Los Angeles Workers Center 1251 South Saint Andrews Place, street parking Checks can be made out to Homies Unidos Inc. Mail: 2105 Beverly Blvd Ste. 219 Los Angeles CA 90057 Food and beverages Contact: Alex Sanchez 213-793-1050 Online Donation: I want to DONATE online
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