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  • Now More Than Ever: Community-Driven Public Safety Solutions

    Posted October 13, 2020

    Our 2019-2020 Annual Report Stories, results, program descriptions, pics and more! If you want to see what the community is doing to prevent violence and heal itself, read our new annual report all about our programs for violence prevention, intervention and healing.

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  • Expand Our Community Circle...

    Posted October 8, 2020

    November 15th on Youtube - We’ve moved our annual fundraiser online… Just like everybody else! Sunday, November 15 5:00 to 5:45 p.

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  • Tuesday Town Hall on OPD Use of Force Policies

    Posted September 18, 2020

    Have Your Say Tuesday at 5 - Panelists Brandon D. Anderson- Founder, Raheem Survey Allyssa Victory- Use of force expert, ACLU Isha Rosemond- Leadership & Advocacy Coordinator, MISSSEY

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  • YA!'s Kyndra Simmons Talks Police Violence with Rep. Barbara Lee and BLM's Alicia Garza

    Posted August 5, 2020

    Kyndra on Facebook Live - Intervention Director Kyndra Simmons joined Rep. Barbara Lee and Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza on FB Live on June 5, 2020 to discuss police brutality: Watch the entire conversation here.

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  • From Pain and Loss Came a Gift of Love

    Posted August 3, 2020

    In KWP, Khadafy’s Inspiration Lives On - This August 4 marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Khadafy Washington, in whose memory our program to help families of homicide victims, the Khadafy Washington Project, is named.

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  • A New Vision for Public Safety

    Posted July 27, 2020

    Community Violence Prevention In the Guardian, Youth ALIVE! Executive Director Anne Marks, Intervention Director Kyndra Simmons, Man Up! Inc founder AT Mitchell, and Cure Violence CEO Gary Slutkin make the very strong case that effective community violence prevention and intervention have been happening across the country for years; results show that the community can itself can do much to reduce the need for and presence of law enforcement in our neighborhoods.

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  • TNT Youth Leader's Academic Turnaround Rewarded

    Posted July 27, 2020

    Jasin gets a car! Jasin on an educational visit to San Quentin with the OK Program and Youth ALIVE!’s TNT.

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  • More States and Cities Funding Community Intervention

    Posted June 23, 2020

    Sherman Spears’ Inspiration - Sherman Spears in 2013 A July 2019 article in The Trace opens with an excellent summary of how Oakland’s (and Youth ALIVE!

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  • TNT Youth Leaders on Coping with Racism

    Posted June 8, 2020

    TNT on KALW - Graduating Teens On Target (TNT) youth leaders from East Oakland, Gregory Hampton (Castlemont Hight) and Seven Curley (Fremont High), were guests on KALW’s Your Talk Radio, where they discussed the impact of violence against people of color on and the lack of justice for victims of racist violence.

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  • The Language of the Unheard

    Posted June 3, 2020

    Youth ALIVE! Supports Protests - “A riot is the language of the unheard.” - Martin Luther King Jr. Youth ALIVE! wholeheartedly supports the protests and the demands for justice and police accountability.

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