Help for Grieving Mothers - A bill in the State Assembly’s current session seeks to help more families of homicide victims obtain financial assistance to pay for funerals and other expenses in the aftermath of violence.
Read More...Warriors Back in The Town - L to R: YA!’s Doral Myles and Paris Davis, Warrior Klay Thompson, YA’s Ricardo Garcia-Acosta and John Torres.
Read More...An Urgent Plea from TNT - Gregory Hampton, right, in San Diego at the Team Enough Summit with friend and fellow TNT youth leader, Jaymes Fitzpatrick.
Read More...YA! & Caught in the Crossfire cited: Hundreds of studies have now demonstrated this contagious nature – even across many types of violence.
Read More...Among 6 Nonprofit Leaders in Oakland: From Giving Back: Six Local Nonprofit Leaders Making a Big Difference - YA! Executive Director Anne Marks addresses the conference of the National Network of Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs (NNHVIP)
Read More...Testimony on violence & mental health: Oakland experts on the impact of violence on youth mental health. A report from Gabriel Garcia, YA!
Read More...Expert Testimony In December, Youth ALIVE!’s Counseling Services Director Nicky MacCallum testified at a State Assembly hearing on the impact of gun violence on youth mental health.
Read More...Executive Director publishes Op Ed The unsung heroes of Oakland’s drastic decline in gun homicides. Gun violence is a health crisis.
Read More...2019 Successes in Sacramento: Great work this year by several California legislators has made us all safer, by addressing such issues as police use of force, the staggering inequity in which young people of color get suspended at school, the length of time traumatized victims have to apply for compensation to aid their healing, and the level of funding for life-saving violence intervention programs like Youth ALIVE!
Read More...Youth ALIVE!’s Annual Report: Click to read a virtual version of YA!’s new annual report. At Youth ALIVE!, we believe in approaching daily violence as a public health conundrum, not a criminal justice one.
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