Curriculum/Education

Homeboy offers a wide range of educational programs so that clients can strengthen their education, life skills, financial management and business skills, while increasing their sense of self worth and gaining control over their own lives.

In providing employment and other support services, Homeboy Industries targets and focuses on that segment of the community that finds it virtually impossible to secure mainstream employment on their own. Many of these young people, mostly former gang members and parolees who have led isolated and dysfunctional lives, struggle with literacy issues and come from home environments without role models and where they did not learn effective life skills. Homeboy’s educational curriculum offers a range of mandatory classes such as self-development, computer skills, and job readiness, along with elective selections including G.E.D. preparation, parenting, basic finances and budgeting, and art. Additionally, Opportunities for Learning Charter School offers classes on site that will allow our clients to earn their high school diploma.

Through the efforts of dedicated staff and curriculum, clients can strengthen their education, life skills, and financial management/business skills, increasing their sense of self worth and gaining control over their own lives, while also setting an example for their children, and opening new horizons for growth and a better life for the long term. Classes are taught by volunteers and professionals who donate their time.

For more information, please contact Shirley Torres, Director of Curriculum and Education at (323) 526-1254 ext. 346 or email: shirleyt@homeboy-industries.org

HOMEBOY PRESS

Begun as a writing program in our Curriculum classes, the Homeboy Press is a pilot program that teaches contemporary computer job skills including typesetting, desk-top publishing, web design, computer graphic design, and editing. The Press will also serve as a voice for Homeboy Industries – a voice of underrepresented, at-risk and overlooked – publishing its own homegrown writers along with writers from around the globe. NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS: Homeboy Press Literary Magazine is now accepting submissions for its inaugural issue which features work by Luis Rodriguez and Reyna Grande as well as emerging voices in all genres. Our launch date is September 2008, and we are currently looking for high quality poetry, fiction and essays/memoirs on any subject. Please click on submission guidelines for more information.