Central American Youth Leadership

Conference

May 31, 2024

Help make this event unforgettable for our immigrant youth. You can make your tax donation through the link below. Proceeds are to fund the conference and continue our youth development program to support newly arrived immigrants. If you would like to be a volunteer at the conference, please contact us at fredid@homiesunidos.org.

This conference brings 450 recent immigrant youth from schools in the Los Angeles Area to take part of the resource fair, workshops, and a concert at the Los Angeles Trade Technical College. The most important part of the conference is when the community welcomes our immigrant youth and assures them there are many people in Los Angeles are there to support them. 

In prior conferences they heard from leaders like Los Angeles City Mayor Eric Garcetti, Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, Assembly Member Wendy Carrillo and Councilmember Hernandez, who welcomed our youth to Los Angeles and reinforced that our immigrant youth deserve to feel safe and protected by the city.

L.A. Board of Supervisors for 1 Dis. Hilda Solis

CARECEN, Executive Director, Martha Arevalo

Los Angeles City Council Dis. 1, Eunisses Hernandez

Why do we have this conference?

Unaccompanied minor keep entering into our communities and they do not have the proper resources to deal with the culture shock. We seek to strengthen our support for Central American and Latino immigrant youth and their families. By creating spaces to support them in their journey of healing from the trauma they have overcome. 

What will they be doing?

The conference provide resources from service providers who work with immigrant youth. They will take part of a series of workshops that will help in having a robust dialogue on the issues immigrant youth face in their communities. We will have over 20 service providers sharing resources for immigrant youth during our resource fair.

Art and culture

Immigrant youth will enjoy a day of music, art and indigenous culture. Through this Conference, newly arrived youth will be exposed to LATTC campus and its vocational trades where they can be motivated to seek higher learning, opportunities, career planning and scholarship opportunities.