Homeboy Industries.

Homeboy Industries.

Homeboy History Homeboy Industries traces its roots to Jobs For A Future (JFF), a program created in 1988 by Father Gregory Boyle while he was serving as pastor of Dolores Mission parish in Boyle Heights. Begun as a jobs program in 1988, offering alternatives to gang violence in one of the toughest neighborhoods in the city, the program soon grew beyond the parish. With the addition of a small bakery in a run-down warehouse across the street from Dolores Mission, JFF had its own business, one where it could hire the most challenging, difficult to place young people in a safe environment. The hope was that they could learn both concrete and soft job skills, to make them stronger, better prepared candidates for permanent employment. A tortilla stand in Grand Central Market downtown solidified the evolution of JFF into Homeboy Industries. In only a few years, Homeboy Industries has had an important impact on the Los Angeles gang problem, with young people from over half of the regions 1100 known gangs seeking a way out through Homeboy. Thousands of young people have walked through the doors of Homeboy Industries looking for a second chance, and finding community. Gang affiliations are left outside as these young people work together, side by side, learning the mutual respect that comes from shared tasks and challenges. Homeboy became an independent nonprofit in August of 2001, and has since grown into a national model. This year, we will celebrate our 20th anniversary as an ...
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Screatures FEATURE Micro Budget Horror Film PART 6 -- THE END

The end of Screatures, my semi-autobiographical horror story. i grew up in Topeka, KS the "mental health capital of the world." On long road trips across country (and during the shooting of this movie) my psychiatric social-worker dad (worked at the VA), would tell me about his use of dream therapy, collage/art therapy, hypnosis, etc. to treat his veterans/patients. He told me about how he could go into his patient's dreams and see everything and remember everything vividly. Weeks later he could re-enter the dream and resume therapy. It was an altered state for both he and his patients. I was always fascinated by his techniques/stories. He also had a vague theory that certain places on earth were somehow "cursed." He noticed that certain psychic "hot spots" seemed to produce the greater concentration of mentally ill people that we was seeing. For example, he noted that Wamego Kansas seemed to be "cursed" because of how many patients derived from there. He didn't know if it was the water table, bacteria, air, spirits or what. He talked about how deer would avoid certain places, and American Indians would try to do a form of acupuncture to cure these "evil" places (totem poles). Weird stuff... all of which I've tried to capture in Screatuers. I guess this is a sort of tribute to my dad, Vance Dale Mellen. As I write this, this is the anniversary of his death.

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