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  • TNT Behind San Quentin's Walls

    Posted March 5, 2018

    Inmates Preach the Value of Freedom TNT youth leader Jasin Saunders at San Quentin On a sun-splashed, blue-sky, spring-like winter day in February, some of our Teens on Target youth leaders went behind the walls at San Quentin.

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  • Youth ALIVE! featured on NPR's Snap Judgement

    Posted March 5, 2018

    On a year of Oakland violence Members of the Snap Judgement radio and podcast crew cover a year of homicides in Oakland in their episode called Counted: an Oakland Story.

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  • The Lesson of Charlie Jones

    Posted February 28, 2018

    A Goal & a Little Help Charlie & Tino There’s a lesson in Charlie Jones’s success. At least his success so far; Charlie’s only 15, a client in our Pathways program.

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  • Join our team!

    Posted February 10, 2018

    You can help save lives! We are looking for passionate, relentless people motivated to prevent violence and develop youth leaders. We have openings for permanent positions as well as internships.

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  • YA! Releases Trauma Tool & Action Briefs

    Posted January 9, 2018

    To Promote “Healing in Color” On January 10th, 2018, with a webinar and three action briefs, Youth ALIVE!, a nationally recognized violence prevention and youth leadership agency, released its Screening and Tool for the Awareness and Relief of Trauma (START), an intervention designed to help young people identify trauma symptoms and provide them with tools they can use to mitigate those symptoms.

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  • Street Smart AND School Smart

    Posted December 20, 2017

    I’m Brandon Lee Vega I was born in East L.A. My family moved to Oakland when I was 13 because my mom was looking for a better paying job.

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  • Movement gathers in Milwaukee

    Posted November 14, 2017

    A movement moves forward Youth Scholarship winner Vincent Jones, Jr. Milwaukee was a plump and juicy bratwurst of a conference for the National Network of Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs.

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  • The Goal

    Posted November 14, 2017

    Freedom from the justice system It’s always a moment worth celebrating, when a young client gets off probation. It’s a fresh start.

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  • Trauma Screening, Awareness, Relief through "START"

    Posted November 14, 2017

    START(ing) to catch on! START participants’ trauma symptoms decreased across the board With inspiring results coming in every day (see chart which records decreases in frequency of symptoms), with more and more young people finding relief from their trauma using START (Screening and Tool for Awareness and Relief of Trauma), we’ve begun training other organizations to use our homegrown tool to identify trauma symptoms and give young sufferers temporary relief.

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  • Our Annual Report 2016 - 2017

    Posted October 4, 2017

    It’s Out! We’re happy to release our latest annual report, Prevention, Intervention & Healing, full of program results, pics of our clients, staff and friends and descriptions of the life-saving work we do, with your help.

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