Boston Medical Center Health System previously held a series of listening sessions that showed us the urgent need to build trust between returning citizens and the healthcare community. We also saw the need for comprehensive resources to help people after incarceration.
This event aims to tackle the barriers that affect returning citizens, with a focus on comprehensive support systems. We’ll bring together thought leaders, advocates, and community members for meaningful discussions, to share vital resources, and to develop strategies that will significantly improve the lives of returning citizens, their families, and the broader community.
We will offer access to vital resources, such as:
- Housing resources
- Employment resources
- Financial resources
- Community health resources
- Giveaways
- And More!
If you are interested in being a vendor, please contact BMCCommunityEngagement@bmc.org
Where
Twelfth Baptist Church
160 Warren Street
Roxbury, MA
When
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Roundtable 9:30am – 12:30pm
Expo 12:30pm – 2:30pm
Father Greg Boyle
HomeBoy Industries, Los Angeles
A native Angeleno and Jesuit priest, from 1986 to 1992 Father Boyle served as pastor of Dolores Mission Church in Boyle Heights, then the poorest Catholic parish in Los Angeles that also had the highest concentration of gang activity in the city.
In 1988, he started what would eventually become Homeboy Industries, which employs and trains former gang members in a range of social enterprises, as well as provides critical services to thousands of men and women who walk through its doors every year seeking a better life.
Father Boyle is the author of the 2010 New York Times-bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. His second book, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship, was published in 2017.
He has received the California Peace Prize and been inducted into the California Hall of Fame. In 2014, President Obama named Father Boyle a Champion of Change. He received the University of Notre Dame’s 2017 Laetare Medal, the oldest honor given to American Catholics. Currently, he serves as a committee member of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Economic and Job Recovery Task Force as a response to COVID-19.
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