Working 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 […]
Continue ReadingPoem for Youth Alive!
Posted: November 11, 2011
Marianne Williams, a Teens on Target Youth Leader, wrote this poem for Youth ALIVE! She performed it at Youth ALIVE!’s 20th Anniversary Celebration on November 10, 2011. […]
Continue ReadingDoctors Recommend PTSD Screening for Civlians
Posted: March 5, 2014
NBC NEWS Youth ALIVE!’s Caught in the Crossfire client Jean Eason, Intervention Specialist Ray Estrada and Executive Director, Anne Marks were featured on NBC News. The […]
Continue ReadingEssence Magazine: Youth ALIVE! Intervention Specialists Featured
Posted: March 21, 2014
ESSENCE MAGAZINE After a young Oakland mother was shot in front of her kids, one of her first visitors was Youth ALIVE! intervention specialist Rafael Vasquez. Soon […]
Continue ReadingTeens Finding Success as Community Leaders
Posted: March 21, 2014
Teens on Target, Youth Alive!’s peer education program, is training teens to be community leaders and educators and is successfully helping young people find positive alternatives […]
Continue ReadingSuccess Story: From Victim to Community Leader
Posted: March 21, 2014
In 2008, Caheri Gutierrez, a young model from one of Oakland’s most dangerous neighborhoods, was shot in her beautiful face and nearly killed in a drive-by. […]
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