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.
Read More...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.
Read More...Freedom from the justice system It’s always a moment worth celebrating, when a young client gets off probation. It’s a fresh start.
Read More...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.
Read More...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.
Read More...Take Care, Bring Love, Stay Safe & Free But if you can’t… In light of recent events in Charlottesville, to be silent is to be complicit.
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