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Created: Feb 22, 2008
Updated: Oct 19, 2009
Membership: Open
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Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth HOMEY
(a.k.a.: H.O.M.E.Y)
( Community Based Organization )
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MISSION
The mission of HOMEY is to transform the lives of high-risk youth and inspire them to not only choose a path of education, self-sufficiency and non-violence, but also strive towards physical, mental and emotional heath. We do this through the youth development practices of skill building, relationship building, youth participation in decision-making, and community involvement.
HISTORY AND CONSTITUENTS
HOMEY is a grassroots organization that serves low-income Latino youth ages of 13 to 24 in the San Francisco Mission District. This group of young people includes those in gangs, those formerly incarcerated, young people at risk of incarceration, and isolated and disenfranchised youth who are equally at risk of unhealthy behaviors like violence and criminal activity. HOMEY is constituency driven by former gang members and young leaders from the community who want to establish more effective methods of preventing youth violence and self-destruction. Since its inception in 1999, HOMEY youth have created publications, implemented educational programs, and hosted numerous events and resource fairs promoting heath and well being to their peers.
