This is a strategic alliance between Learning Works and Homeboy Industries. Our school serves their youth, helping them graduate high school, while their team specializes in jobs and wraparound services for these same students. Our principles and commitment to the disenfranchised are a powerful match.

The main campus for our students is in Pasadena with a resource center at the Homeboy Industries Boyle Heights location. We have been the school for Homeboy Industries since 2010, serving youth re-entering from the juvenile detention centers/camps and youth who have dropped out. We are fiscally independent and serve as the organization’s high school.

Just three metro stops from the current Homeboy site in Chinatown, the original Homeboy site offers a quaint storefront space appropriate for small classes and individual tutoring.  Located in the heart of Boyle Heights, this site was where Father Greg Boyle built his “Jobs for the Future” program from 1997 to 2007. The original Homegirl Café was located just down the street.

Learning Works@Homeboy serves as a re-entry site for all the youth Father Greg Boyle, Homeboy’s founder and Executive Director, visits in the juvenile probation camps and detention centers. In the context of our partnership with Homeboy Industries, we are the perfect school for youth being released from these camps.

Our students on our main campus are mostly from the Northwest Pasadena area, the poorest area in PUSD. At our Homeboy Industries resource center, most of our students are from East Los Angeles, South Los Angeles, or Northeast Los Angeles. However, since Homeboy engages youth in the camps/detentions center before released, youth could be from anywhere in the county.

To view a presentation on our partnership, see this link: Homeboy Industries and Learning Works: A strategic, loving partnership. You can also watch a video on our partnership here: Learning Lab – Partnerships.