Delays for Paramedics Draw Criticism in Oakland
Posted: December 17, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES By SHOSHANA WALTER DEC. 17, 2011 Gunshots cracked the air on a sunny morning as two men led a group of high school […]
Continue ReadingShootings Soar in Oakland; Children Often the Victims
Posted: January 14, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES By SHOSHANA WALTER JAN. 7, 2012 Five-year-old Gabriel Martinez Jr. died Dec. 30, shot as he played under a streetlight near his father’s […]
Continue ReadingYA!’s Wazi Davis Named 2016 Torchbearer
Posted: June 23, 2016
The Greenlining Institute recognized Wazi Davis in the fight for freedom, for opportunity, and to lift barriers of race and gender Wazi Davis Bears the Torch of […]
Continue ReadingAll 11 2016 Teens on Target grads are off to college
Posted: June 23, 2016
All 2016 TNT Grads Attending College Graduation season is always bittersweet at Youth ALIVE!’s Teens On Target program. This year, 11 of our youth leaders at […]
Continue ReadingTeens on Target Youth Leaders Take the City
Posted: April 20, 2016
It’s the most active and exciting time of year for our Teens on Target youth leaders. Since late January and on through the spring, TNT teams […]
Continue ReadingNew Urban Gun Violence Report Looks at Solutions
Posted: April 20, 2016
In the United States, young black men face a homicide rate 20 times higher than the national average. Healing Communities in Crisis: Lifesaving Solutions to the Urban […]
Continue ReadingYA!’s Violence Prevention Programs Featured
Posted: April 4, 2016
San Francisco Magazine With murders up, the police force depleted, and a mayor under threat of recall, 2011 was a very bad year for Oakland. To […]
Continue ReadingThe Hidden Trauma of Living in Fear – YA on MSNBC
Posted: December 15, 2015
MSNBC Melissa Harris-Perry interviewed Kyndra Simmons, Youth ALIVE’s Caught in the Crossfire Program Manager about PTSD being diagnosed in Oakland’s children. Aired December 15, 2015. See the full […]
Continue ReadingWorking to Reduce Violence in the Bay Area
Posted: January 28, 2016
KALW Your Call discussed programs working to make a difference in the Bay Area to halt gun violence and provide victims of violence with resources to […]
Continue ReadingEbony Magazine: Anti-Gang Programs Approach Violence As a Disease. YA’s Executive Director Featured.
Posted: November 28, 2015
EBONY MAGAZINE During one of the presentations at this year’s American Public Health Association conference, researchers and activists gathered to discuss violence as a contagion. They […]
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