HOMEBOYS


 * GREG BOYLE HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES **
 * The following was taken from 2013 Crime Prevention Branch Symposium in Winnipeg, Nov. 14th, 2013 **


 * EXIT WOUNDS VIDEO** Gregory Boyle

[|www.homeboyindustries.org/life-at-homeboy/father-**greg**/]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Greg**_**Boyle**

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‪Greg Boyle From Wikipedia,

American [|Jesuit] [|priest]. He is the founder and Director of [|Homeboy Industries] and former [|pastor] of Dolores Mission Church. Early years Fr. Boyle was born in [|Los Angeles] [2] and is one of eight children born to Kathleen and the late Bernie Boyle. Schooling Boyle earned his BA in English from [|Gonzaga University], an MA in English from [|Loyola Marymount University] , a [|Master of Divinity] from the [|Weston School of Theology] , and a Sacred Theology Masters degree from the [|Jesuit School of Theology]. [3] Career Before founding [|Homeboy Industries], Father Greg taught at [|Loyola High School] and worked with Christian Base Communities in [|Cochabamba, Bolivia]. He was appointed as Pastor of Dolores Mission in the [|Boyle Heights] neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1986 where he served through 1992. Following this, Fr. Greg spent time as Chaplain of the Islas Marias Penal Colony in Mexico and [|Folsom Prison], before returning to Los Angeles and Dolores Mission. Homeboy Industries traces its roots to Dolores Mission's “Jobs For A Future Campaign”, a campaign developed by Father Greg in 1988 with the Church Base Communities of Dolores Mission. The campaign later became the "Jobs for a Future" (JFF) program. [4] In an effort to address the escalating problems and unmet needs of gang-involved youth, Fr. Greg and the community developed positive alternatives, including establishing an elementary school, a day care program, a community organizing project, Comité Pro Paz en el Barrio, and finding legitimate employment for young people. JFF’s success demonstrated that many gang members are eager to leave the dangerous and destructive life on the 'streets.' In 1992, as a response to the civil unrest in Los Angeles, Fr. Greg launched the first business: Homeboy Bakery, with a mission to create an environment that provided training, work experience, and above all, the opportunity for rival gang members to work side by side. The success of the Bakery created the groundwork for additional businesses, thus prompting JFF to become an independent non-profit organization, [|Homeboy Industries], in 2001. Today Homeboy Industries’ nonprofit economic development enterprises include Homeboy Bakery, Homeboy Silkscreen, Homeboy/Homegirl Merchandise, Homeboy Diner, Homeboy Farmers Markets, Homeboy Plumbing and Homegirl Café. Homeboy Industries, is now the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the United States. Consulting work Fr. Greg is also a consultant to youth service and governmental agencies, policy-makers and employers. Fr. Boyle serves as a member of the National Gang Center Advisory Board (U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention). He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Loyola Law School Center for Juvenile Law and Policy in Los Angeles. Writer In 2010, Father Boyle's //Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion,// a book recollecting his 20+ years in the barrio, was published. [5] It received rave blurbs from many, ranging from human rights activists like [|Kerry Kennedy] to actor [|Martin Sheen]. [6]
 * Homeboy Industries **


 * HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ** : [|www.homeboyindustries.org/]

- CIRCLE: we are all connected…how do we all stay in the circle and have no one on the outside? Saw it through Elder Robinson’s talk and through the hoop dance. - No kinship…no justice…no peace…

- lots of boys were not in school - Father Boyle went to these areas and asked these boys if he could find a school that would take them, would they go…they all said yes… - So he went to the convent and asked the nuns if they would give up their convent and they could bring gang members to school. Different Proframs - once a week they have mothers and gang members bring their kids to this program where these parents are taught how to play with their kids, how to feed them, etc. They play, etc. - free tattoo removal - designated clinic - Father Boyle went to a movie producer and asked him to buy the this bakery. A month later, they started Home boy Bakery…. - ** All of us are a whole lot more than the worst things we’ve done… ** - **Homeboy Diner** - **Homeboy solar panels** - **3 organic mini farms** - **homeboy merchandise** - **home girl café (women with records, from rival gangs)** - **No kinship no justice no justice no peace** - **This conference is not the place you go to but where you go from…** - **Had a gang member with a tattoo on his forehead…Fuck the world…** - **He couldn’t get a job…** - **Father Doyle had a plastic surgeon remove this tattoo. When gang members heard this, there was a lineup** - **They have done 3000 tattoo removals. They have a clinic and 3 laser machines. Unbelievable ….** - **stand in awe in what the poor have to carry and not to stand in judgment in how they do it…** - **counselors for substance abuse…** - **all different guys are from rival gangs…** - **hopeful kids do no join gangs** - **no kids are seeking something when they join the gang… always fleeing something…lethal absence of hope.** - **Kids go to gangs when their lives are a misery** - **Misery loves company** - - **Homeboy silkscreen factory** - **2500 customers** - **has buried 183 boys in the last 25 years….** - **Go from here to create a community of kinships**