Homies Unidos is pleased to invite our immigrant supporters to join us for our Annual Central American Youth Leadership Conference. Each year, this conference brings together approximately 450 youth to participate in a resource fair, interactive workshops, and recreational activities. Most importantly, it is a moment where our community welcomes immigrant youth and reassures them that they are valued, supported, and protected in our city.

In previous years, our youth have heard uplifting messages from leaders such as former Mayor Eric Garcetti, Senator María Elena Durazo, Congressman Miguel Santiago, Assembly Member Wendy Carrillo, L.A. Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez and most recently Assembly member Mark Gonzalez—voices that reaffirmed our immigrant youth have a place in Los Angeles and have rights and safety in Los Angeles. We are proud to have welcomed the likes of Dr. Charles Vela, founder of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Institute, CARECEN’s-Angela Sambrano, SALEF- Jocelyn Duarte,

The primary goals of our conference are to:

Provide meaningful support to Central American and Latino immigrant youth and their families by creating spaces that foster healing from past trauma.

Connect youth with essential resources and direct service providers who address the unique needs of migrant youth. Over 20 organizations will participate in our resource fair.

Expose newly arrived youth to higher education pathways by introducing them to the LATTC campus, vocational programs, and opportunities for academic and career advancement.

To ensure a successful event, Homies Unidos is seeks sponsorships to help cover the costs of printed materials, banners, food, beverages, and other expenses. Funds raised will directly support our ongoing violence prevention and youth empowerment efforts for immigrant youth.

Follow the link to learn more about our annual conference and see the impact we are having. CAYLC past conferences.

If you are interested in being a sponsor to our conference please contact us below. If you are an organization that serves immigrant youth and would like to have booth at our conference. If you are a school and would like to take your students, please contact Fredid Toledo at fredid@homiesunidos.org or call 213-838-7484.

On behalf of Homies Unidos, we extend our heartfelt gratitude for all our partners who have part of these 10 years supporting our Annual Central American Youth Leadership Conference. Last year 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. 

Joing us on May 29, 2026 and let our immigrant youth know Los Angeles is their home.

You can donate, volunteer, be a sponsor have a booth to provide our youth with information. Please see our sponsor packet and make you donation on our link below.

Call us for more information at 213-383-7484.

In 2025 our immigrant world was shaken with immigration raids. Even so, 250 students attended our 9th annul Central American Youth Leadership Conference. Their voice was strong, we had a great panel of youths who spoke with out fear.

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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.

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.

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.

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.