Central American Youth Leadership Conference

Event Date: 
Saturday, September 19, 2015 -
9:00am to 5:00pm
Event Location: 
Santee Educational Complex, 192 S. Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011

Homies Unidos presents the first Central American Youth Leadership Conference, designed to formally welcome our Central American Refugee (CAR) youth to the community and to connect them with resources that will address their trauma around the social determinants of health. CAR Youth have been dealing with violence since they lived in their country of origin, which they were forced to emigrate. They embarked in a dangerous journey through Mexico, and ended up incarcerated in the U.S. detention centers, after that the Immigration Enforcement Agency reallocated them into Refugee Centers until they were finally released to their parents/legal guardians. But their hopes and dreams of starting a new life free from violence have been challenged during a complex transitioning and reintegration process, when they unified with their family or relatives they had not seen in over a decade, new schools where they didn’t know anyone nor the language and feel alienated and the reality that many of these neighborhoods they came to live in lack the proper health systems. They are coping with anxiety, depression, and PSTD.

The goals of the conference are:

1. Facilitate a preventive holistic health process of integration of the youth, which will be launched within the youth Conference and the resource fair, where the organizations and the larger community welcomes refugee youth from Central American and their families.

2. Connect CAR youth with resources and direct links to health and other service providers that eventually will integrate a comprehensive and complete referral system.

3. Identify potential youth leaders that would gain a greater understanding of their traumatic experiences, other health issues amongst the Central American Immigrant Youth that will educate the larger community.

For more information, visit homiesunidos.org.  If you are interested in becoming a conference sponsor, contact Paula Guadron at (323) 893-1101 or pguadron@homiesunidos.org.

The CSRC is a cosponsor of this event.

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