“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 community-based efforts to increase safety and prevent violence.
Read More...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.
Read More...Seeking Change that Lasts There’s more than one way to change the world. The East Oakland students who started our Teens on Target youth leadership program back in 1989 sought to create a safer community through two approaches: education and advocacy.
Read More...Electric Times for Young Activists TNT youth leaders and Castlemont sophomores Rodney Robinson and Terri’Nae Williams These are electric times for the young violence prevention activists like those in our Teens on Target (TNT) leadership program.
Read More...And TNT Leaders Meet Michelle Obama Breana and Dymond with Barbara Lee & Michelle Obama in Oakland We are thrilled to announce that the East Bay’s great congressional representative Barbara Lee is joining Youth ALIVE!
Read More...Speaking Truth With Power TNT youth leaders rally with Assemblyman Jones-Sawyer in Sacramento. Last Thursday in Sacramento Youth ALIVE! and Teens on Target youth leaders stood up and said “Enough is enough” and reminded the world that while mass shootings are extremely tragic and must be stopped, it has always been communities of color who suffer the most from gun-related violence.
Read More...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 Target youth leaders, including former TNTer Smooth Wickliff.
Read More...TNT Youth Leader on #NeverAgain TNT’s Dymond Garrett at Castlemont TNT youth leader Dymond Garrett has written a searing but hopeful piece for Youth Radio about the #NeverAgain movement, growing up around violence, and the frustration felt by those who have been talking about – and living with – gun violence for years.
Read More...We’re sold out! See you at our annual celebration dinner and auction.
Read More...Young Oakland Voices Heard The outrageous, unnecessary destruction of lives in Parkland, Florida, has rightly inspired great sympathy for the grieving.
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