After Parkland, TNT Youth Leaders Speak
Posted March 6, 2018
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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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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