California State Attorney General Kamala Harris has released her office’s annual homicide report, for 2015. It is an important s ummary of who was killed, why, and who were the alleged killers.
Read More...All 2016 TNT Grads Attending College Ismael Hernandez is off to Sonoma State Graduation season is always bittersweet at Youth ALIVE!
Read More...The Greenlining Institute recognized Wazi Davis in the fight for freedom, for opportunity, and to lift barriers of race and gender Wazi Davis Bears the Torch of Freedom Wazi receives the 2016 Torchbearer Award from the Greenlining Institute
Read More...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!
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