Programs

Youth ALIVE! works to help violently wounded people heal themselves and their community.

 

Our Mission: To break the cycle of violence and uplift a thriving community of leaders rooted in Oakland and beyond through prevention, intervention, healing and advocacy.

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Prevention Programs

Teens on Target (TNT)
TNT trains high school students and young adults from neighborhoods with high levels of violence to be community leaders and violence prevention peer educators.

Advocacy for Change
Our clients, staff and youth leaders work with civic, state and federal leaders to design and pass sensible policies that reduce gun, gang, family and dating violence.

Speak Up, Speak Out
Our speakers bureau. It’s a training program for youth and adults impacted by violence, who are ready to inform the world with their stories of resilience and their ideas for change.

Intervention Programs

Caught in the Crossfire
Caught in the Crossfire is a hospital-based peer violence intervention program designed to support victims of gun violence, promote positive alternatives to violence, and to reduce retaliation, re-inury and arrest.

Violence Interruption
Our Violence Interrupters take to the streets of Oakland to defuse tensions that threaten violence, mediate conflicts among groups and gangs, and encourage alternatives to violence.

Pathways
Pathways is our mentorship program that helps young people make the transition from a period of incarceration back home, back to school, and back to stability.

Healing Programs

Khadafy Washington Project
The Khadafy Washington Project provides critical response to family and friends of homicide victims in order to prevent retaliation and promote healing.

Counseling Services
Our clinical mental health counselors take therapy into the field, wherever victims feel safest, and provide victims healing support alongside our intervention workers.

START: Screening & Tool for Awareness & Relief of Trauma
START is a tool we developed with a group of young men recovering from their own gunshot wounds, to help identify otherwise neglected symptoms of trauma.