In the United States, young black men face a homicide rate 20 times higher than the national average. Healing Communities in Crisis: Lifesaving Solutions to the Urban Gun Violence Epidemic, from the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the PICO National Network, outlines solutions, through policy changes and intervention programs like Youth ALIVE!
Read More...It’s the most active and exciting time of year for our Teens on Target youth leaders. Since late January and on through the spring, TNT teams from Castlemont High and Life Academy have been taking their comprehensive violence prevention curriculum to middle school students throughout Oakland.
Read More...San Francisco Magazine With murders up, the police force depleted, and a mayor under threat of recall, 2011 was a very bad year for Oakland.
Read More...KALW Your Call discussed programs working to make a difference in the Bay Area to halt gun violence and provide victims of violence with resources to keep them from the revolving cycle of gang violence.
Read More...MSNBC Melissa Harris-Perry interviewed Kyndra Simmons, Youth ALIVE’s Caught in the Crossfire Program Manager about PTSD being diagnosed in Oakland’s children.
Read More...EBONY MAGAZINE During one of the presentations at this year’s American Public Health Association conference, researchers and activists gathered to discuss violence as a contagion.
Read More...ESSENCE MAGAZINE After a young Oakland mother was shot in front of her kids, one of her first visitors was Youth ALIVE!
Read More...In 2008, Caheri Gutierrez, a young model from one of Oakland’s most dangerous neighborhoods, was shot in her beautiful face and nearly killed in a drive-by.
Read More...Teens on Target, Youth Alive!’s peer education program, is training teens to be community leaders and educators and is successfully helping young people find positive alternatives to violence.
Read More...NBC NEWS Youth ALIVE!’s Caught in the Crossfire client Jean Eason, Intervention Specialist Ray Estrada and Executive Director, Anne Marks were featured on NBC News.
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