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Dymond Garrett is Glad You’re Listening

TNT Youth Leader on #NeverAgain TNT youth leader Dymond Garrett has written a searing but hopeful piece for Youth Radio about the #NeverAgain movement, growing up […]

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After Parkland, TNT Youth Leaders Speak

Young Oakland Voices Heard The outrageous, unnecessary destruction of lives in Parkland, Florida, has rightly inspired great sympathy for the grieving. For many (though somehow not […]

Youth ALIVE! featured on NPR’s Snap Judgement

On a year of Oakland violence Members of the Snap Judgement radio and podcast crew cover a year of homicides in Oakland in their episode called […]

TNT Behind San Quentin’s Walls

Inmates Preach the Value of Freedom On a sun-splashed, blue-sky, spring-like winter day in February, some of our Teens on Target youth leaders went behind the […]

The Lesson of Charlie Jones

A Goal & a Little Help There’s a lesson in Charlie Jones’s success. At least his success so far; Charlie’s only 15, a client in our […]

Join our team!

You can help save lives! We are looking for passionate, relentless people motivated to prevent violence and develop youth leaders. We have openings for permanent positions […]

YA! Releases Trauma Tool & Action Briefs

To Promote “Healing in Color” On January 10th, 2018, with a webinar and three action briefs, Youth ALIVE!, a nationally recognized violence prevention and youth leadership […]

Street Smart AND School Smart

I’m Brandon Lee Vega I was born in East L.A. My family moved to Oakland when I was 13 because my mom was looking for a better […]

The Goal

Freedom from the justice system It’s always a moment worth celebrating, when a young client gets off probation. It’s a fresh start. A new day. Pathways […]