Need Help?

Some organizations work directly with or provide services to high risk, homeless or gang involved youth. Others offer alternative education, job training or cultural expression to fortify young people living in an environment of risk. Some provide services or work directly as advocates for the incarcerated or their families.

A list services and organizations that provide them:

• After-School Programs
  • El Salvador and Honduras: Centros de Alcance “Por Mi Barrio”
  • El Salvador: PASSOS Education and Training Centre
  • El Salvador: Youth Leadership School (San Salvador)
  • Guatemala: Fotokids
  • USA: Latin American Youth Center (Washington DC, Maryland)
• Alternative Schooling
  • El Salvador: Movimiento de Jóvenes Encuentristas (Ilobasco)
  • Guatemala: Caja Ludica Art based Education
  • Guatemala: Grupo Ceiba
  • USA: The Los Angeles Conservation Corps
• Programs for gang-involved youth
  • El Salvador: Equipo Nahual
  • El Salvador: Homies Unidos (San Salvador)
  • Honduras: Cooperativa Mulitservicios (San Pedro Sula)
  • Honduras: Generacion X (San Pedro Sula)
  • Honduras: Paz y Justicia
  • USA: Barrios Unidos
  • USA: Homeboy Industries/Jobs for a Future (Los Angeles, CA)
  • USA: Homies Unidos (Los Angeles, CA)
  • USA: ROCA (Boston, MA)
• Programs for Homeless Youth
  • Guatemala: Our Rights/Asociación Nuestros Derechos (Guatemala City)
  • Honduras: Casa Alianza (Tegucigalpa)
• Programs for the Incarcerated
  • El Salvador: FESPAD
  • Guatemala: The Association for Crime Prevention (APREDE)
  • Honduras: CPTRT
  • Honduras: Pais Poesible
  • Honduras: Prison Ministry
  • USA: Sin Fronteras (Los Angeles, CA)
• Services for Deportees
  • Honduras: The Center for Assistance to Returning Migrants (Tegucigalpa)
• Tattoo Removal
  • El Salvador: Goodbye Tattoo / Adios al Tatuaje (San Salvador)
  • USA: The Epiphany Project (Los Angeles, CA)
  • USA: Ya ‘Stuvo Tattoo Removal (Los Angeles, CA)