Homeboy Industries embraces, nurtures, and trains former gang members for the work force and a better future.

Gang Busters

One man's mission to stop bullets by creating job

FR.G and Homeboy Industries on KCET’s show “My Generation.”

Check out Father Greg and Homeboy Industries on KCET’s show “My Generation.” This piece was produced by Val Zavala. Here’s what the show says about Homeboy:

Over the past 20 years, Father Greg Boyle has buried more than 170 young people whose lives were cut short as a result of gang violence. Wanting to do more than just conduct funerals, he founded Homeboy Industries, a safe haven where former gang members and the recently incarcerated can be reintroduced to society and become contributing members of the community. Each year, 12,000 young people arrive in search of counseling, high-school degrees and free tattoo removal. But that’s not all.

“You ask any gang member in the United States of America, ‘name one thing that would help you,’ – you wouldn’t find a gang member who said something other than a job,” says Father Greg.. Today, Homeboy Industries runs its own bakery, café, gift shop and printing business, all run by former gang members, with profits going to benefit the program.

A Lifetime of Joblessness

Read Fr. Greg's editorial in the May 11th, Los Angeles Times and consider Hiring a Homie.

A Prayer for the Streets.

The priest who started a gang-intervention program in Los Angeles uses his faith to face a shutdown.

Art sale and exhibition will benefit Homeboy Industries.

The Exit Wounds Project gives participants a chance to express themselves.

Homeboy Industries pins hopes on chips and salsa.

At Ralphs stores in Southern California, the fundraising snacks are hot sellers.