And see the acclaimed documentary Youth ALIVE!’s Violence Interrupter team Tuesday, November 13, 6:45 p.m. The New Parkway 474 24th Street Oakland $12/$10 (seniors and students) Purchase tickets November 13, 7 p.
Read More...YA! Legislative Advocacy Update Dymond Garrett and other TNT Youth Leaders in Sacramento Even as Washington grows more hostile to newcomers and people of color, the State of California continues to increase fairness and access to critical support and services.
Read More...YA!’s Daniel Roman Takes Us Inside Endia McCowan, Fremont High TNT youth leader TNT kicked off the new school year by doing what it does best – making connections.
Read More...Healing Justice Alliance a Mile High YA! Violence Interrupters Juan and Doral, and ED Anne in Denver. Once each year, usually in late summer or early fall, like migrating birds, they gather.
Read More...“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.
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