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.
Read More...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.
Read More...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.
Read More...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.
Read More...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.
Read More...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.
Read More...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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