Doctors Recommend PTSD Screening for Civlians
Posted March 5, 2014
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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Oakland Effect: the profound physical effect of toxic stress
Posted April 14, 2012
Oakland Tribune By Scott Johnson Oakland Tribune This is an excerpt from reporter Scott Johnson’s blog, which focuses on the impact of violence and trauma on the community.
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Shootings Soar in Oakland; Children Often the Victims
Posted January 15, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES By SHOSHANA WALTER JAN. 7, 2012 Five-year-old Gabriel Martinez Jr. died Dec. 30, shot as he played under a streetlight near his father’s taco truck on an East Oakland street corner.
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Delays for Paramedics Draw Criticism in Oakland
Posted December 18, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES By SHOSHANA WALTER DEC. 17, 2011 Gunshots cracked the air on a sunny morning as two men led a group of high school teachers on a tour of a violent area of West Oakland.
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After 20 years, Youth Alive continues its fight to end gun violence among Oakland’s young people
Posted November 30, 2011
OAKLAND NORTH By Amina Waheed Posted November 29, 2011 11:07 am Over 22 years ago, Deane Calhoun sat in a meeting that would forever change her life and the lives of thousands of Oakland teens.
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Poem for Youth Alive!
Posted November 11, 2011
By Marianne Williams Marianne Williams, a Teens on Target Youth Leader, wrote this poem for Youth ALIVE! She performed it at Youth ALIVE!
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Occupy movement turns to extending appeal to broad segments of U.S. population
Posted November 2, 2011
Oakland Tribune By Scott Johnson Oakland Tribune November 2, 2011 OAKLAND – Daniel Wilkerson has a hard time relating to most of what he hears coming from the protesters at Occupy Oakland.
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Success story for Sacramento intervention program
Posted July 14, 2011
East Bay gunshot victim a success story for Sacramento intervention program Sacramento Bee July 2011 By Kim Minugh - kminugh@sacbee.com
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In the Crossfire
Posted November 14, 2008
NEED Magazine Excerpt from Issue #5, November 2008 Homicide is the leading cause of death for young people in Oakland.
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The High Cost of Gun Violence
Posted June 14, 2008
EAST BAY EXPRESS June 4, 2008 By Matthew Green On a Sunday afternoon in June of 2006, a young man we’ll call Michael Robinson was shot six times on a street in his West Oakland neighborhood.
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