I can say honestly the program saved my life, said Jamel Davis, who through Homework San Diego is now an apprentice with a local union. Without Homework I would be lost, back in a gang, back in prison.
Second-year apprentice Ed Wallace was living in a halfway house after getting out of prison when he met Shanley and the Homework family. There s a book that I read, As a Man Thinketh and he said that man is eager to improve his circumstances but not to improve himself, therefore he remains bound, explained Wallace. So everybody is trying to improve themselves, but when you come home with zero that’s enhanced more so.. you are hungry, you are eager. Homework gives you a pathway.