CENTRAL AMERICAN YOUTH
LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
Our 2025 Central American Youth Leadership Panel
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Una Comunidad Sin Miedo 2025
Our 9th Annual Central American Youth Leadership Conference entitled A Community Without Fear was held in LATTC on May 30, 2025. We had 250 youth attend from several schools in the area.
we proudly welcomed 245 students, 15 workshops, and 22 resource partners to an inspiring day of learning, connection, and cultural celebration. This year’s conference, held at Los Angeles Trade-Tech College, centered around the powerful theme "Una Comunidad Sin Miedo" — A Community Without Fear. Highlights included a partnership with Pollo Campero, offering culturally resonant food that reminded students of home, and our annual mural painting, sponsored by L.A. vs. Hate, that reflected the richness, struggles, and aspirations of our communities.
Thank you for another successful event
On behalf of Homies Unidos, we extend our heartfelt gratitude for your participation, support, and generous contribution to our 9th Annual Central American Youth Leadership Conference. Our keynote speaker was Assemblyman Mark Gonzalez who gave a heartfelt speak about the resilience of our immigrant youth experience and how brave they need to be in this time of crisis in our immigrant communities.
We want to thank our sponsors who without their continued support we could not have feed and provided our immigrant youth with the opportunity to be among others to share their experiences.
The Heising-Simon Foundation, Global Fund for Children, Lush cosmetics, Board of Supervisors Holly Mitchell Board of Supervisors Hilda Solis Los Angeles City Council Members Eunisses Hernandez, L.A. vs Hate, Los Angeles City Council Member Heather Hutt, California For Safety and Justice,
We also want to thank many of the organizations who took time to stand under the sun and provided information to our youth:
Bresee Foundation, ViaCare, Chirla, CARECEN, Natural History Museum, LA Department of Youth Development, Immigrant Defenders Law center,Saint Johns Community Health, Peace Over Violence Planned Parenthood and more.
We want to thank the artists:
La Liga De La Calle, Moha Humo, Solares, Erik Moreno "Sen", Votan and Dinero 100K, We want to thank LATTC for their continued commitment, the delicious food from Pollo Campero.
All of the Homies Unidos Staff and volunteers. Most important our Youth Panel, the courage these youth have demonstrated is amazing. They are our leaders of tomorrow.
Habla Que te Escucho interviews Rosa, Angie, Urvin and service providers during our 8th Annual Central American Youth Leadership Conference. For the full video on Habla Que Te Escucho
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PENSANDO EN MI FUTURO 2024
Homies Unidos held its 8th Annual Central American Youth Leadership Conference. Over 400 Immigrant youth took advantage of 24 Service Providers, Music, Workshops and Art and Culture. We had Dr. Charles Vela, the founder of The STEM program Was our Key note speaker.
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YO CONTROLO MI FUTURO 2023
Our 7th Annual Central American Youth Leadership Conference entitled Yo Controlo Mi Futuro was held in LATTC on June 2, 2023. We had 450 youth attend from several schools in the area. We want to acknowledge Bernstein High and Freemont High who attended for the first time.
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LIBERACION EN EDUCACION 2022
We had missed having students feel the environment of having all our conferences held in person. With caution, 350 students attended our conference entitled, Liberacion en Educacion. We had a great panel of youths speak of their experiences as immigrant youth in Los Angeles.
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NUESTRA VOZ, NUESTRO PODER, NUESTRO FUTURO 2021
This year because of COVID-19 we held the conference online through Zoom. We had 102 attendees who were guided by a group of students moderating the conference. We expect that next year we have the conference held in person.
