A Movement Rising: the health approach to reducing violence
Youth ALIVE!’s Annual Report: At Youth ALIVE!, we believe in approaching daily violence as a public health conundrum, not a criminal justice one. We believe the […]
Guardian Series Looks at Drop in Violence
What Caused the Drop? In a new series introduced this week, The Guardian will be examining the causes and effects of the decline in violent crime […]
Meet Oakland’s Violence Interrupters
And see the acclaimed documentary Tuesday, November 13, 6:45 p.m. The New Parkway 474 24th Street Oakland $12/$10 (seniors and students) Purchase tickets See the great […]
Teens Transformed at TNT
YA!’s Daniel Roman Takes Us Inside TNT kicked off the new school year by doing what it does best – making connections. Recruitment started […]
Ricardo Garcia-Acosta on KALW’s Your Call
“Jobs Save Lives. Jobs Stop Bullets” Youth ALIVE!’s Ricardo Garcia-Acosta was a guest on KALW’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar recently, for a panel discussion of […]
From Parkland to Oakland
Our Annual Report 2017-2018 The report we release today, Listening to Our Youth: From Parkland to Oakland, lists results from all of our programs. It includes two […]
On June 21st, Meet Oakland’s Youth Activists for Gun Safety
Electric Times for Young Activists These are electric times for the young violence prevention activists like those in our Teens on Target (TNT) leadership program. […]
Barbara Lee Joins YA!’s Honorary Advisory Council
And TNT Leaders Meet Michelle Obama We are thrilled to announce that the East Bay’s great congressional representative Barbara Lee is joining Youth ALIVE!’s Honorary Advisory […]
Former TNT Youth Leader Smooth Wickliff in The Guardian
Smooth on Giving up the Gun On the eve of last month’s March for our Lives, the Guardian sought commentary from current and former Teens on […]
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 […]