Bomaderry based Salt Ministries team to attend 2019 Global Homeboy Network Gathering

The group, from Bomaderry based Salt Ministries, is sending a team to Los Angeles next week to attend the 2019 Global Homeboy Network Gathering.

The ultimate goal of the Homeboy Global Network is to collectively advance the lives of people at the margins through localised direct services and to create a collaborative platform for advocacy with and on behalf of partners across the world.

Salt Ministries is one of the driving forces behind helping local people in need.

It runs Safe Shelter Shoalhaven, the group's volunteers, each Wednesday, delivers food and care to people in need and on Thursday they run free lunch and offer welfare programs.

Salt spokesperson, Meg Dover, said the trip would benefit the local community.

"We are thrilled to be able to take a team over to the Homeboy Conference where we will have the opportunity to learn from those who have been pioneering effective ways of establishing love and healing in the context of community," she said.

Homeboy provides concrete value to organisations who seek to replicate some or many of the successful programs and social enterprises that together make the Homeboy model.

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As a lighthouse for these organisations Homeboy provides a starting map as well as a strategic set of tools and program models for leaders who hope to bring some piece of this model to their communities.

The mission of the Global Homeboy Network is to work with organisations across the globe to create therapeutic communities that offer job skills training, cost-free programs and services and social enterprise employment.

The goal is to provide marginalised men, women and youth with the tools they need to change their lives and become productive members of their communities whilst seeking to widen the circle of compassion, tenderness and kinship by fostering community, sanctuary, family and a place of welcome for those on these margins.

Mrs Dover said these same values drive Salts growth and direction.

"It is the intention of the team from Salt to glean from this conference many diverse concepts to bring them back to the Shoalhaven and put those concepts into action," she added.