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  • YA!'s Violence Prevention Programs Featured

    Posted April 4, 2016

    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.

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  • Working to Reduce Violence in the Bay Area

    Posted January 28, 2016

    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.

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  • The Hidden Trauma of Living in Fear - YA on MSNBC

    Posted December 15, 2015

    MSNBC Melissa Harris-Perry interviewed Kyndra Simmons, Youth ALIVE’s Caught in the Crossfire Program Manager about PTSD being diagnosed in Oakland’s children.

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  • Ebony Magazine: Anti-Gang Programs Approach Violence As a Disease. YA's Executive Director Featured.

    Posted November 28, 2015

    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.

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  • Essence Magazine: Youth ALIVE! Intervention Specialists Featured

    Posted March 21, 2014

    ESSENCE MAGAZINE After a young Oakland mother was shot in front of her kids, one of her first visitors was Youth ALIVE!

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  • Success Story: From Victim to Community Leader

    Posted March 21, 2014

    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.

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  • Teens Finding Success as Community Leaders

    Posted March 21, 2014

    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.

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  • 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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