YA! Violence Interrupter Glen Upshaw Humanitarian Award Recipient

Posted January 10, 2017

Oakland Citizen Humanitarian Award

Youth ALIVE’s Glen Upshaw was this year’s recipient of the Oakland Citizen Humanitarian Award. Living Jazz, an Oakland-based music education non-profit, created this award to recognized Oaklanders who “give of themselves beyond the call of duty and to inspire others to work for the betterment of the community.” Each year, they choose a recipient in consultation with the Oakland Department of Human Services. Glen leads our Violence Interruption team. The Violence Interrupters focus on mediating conflicts between individuals, group and gangs throughout Oakland, the kind that arise in the aftermath of violence. They help the wounded assess their safety and work to break the cycle of violence in a lasting way.

Youth ALIVE! named a 2017 Oaklandish Innovator

Posted January 10, 2017

2017 Innovator Award to Youth ALIVE!

Youth ALIVE! is thrilled once again this year to announce that our Teens on Target (TNT) Youth Leadership program has been named an Oakland Innovator by Oaklandish. Our founding program, TNT trains students at Castelmont High School and Life Academy in East Oakland to become leaders, mentors and violence prevention educators to their peers. Every year at TNT, dozens of high school students master a comprehensive violence prevention curriculum (designed by Oakland students) and then deliver violence prevention workshops in middle schools throughout the city. They also take their ideas and their message to the media, to city leaders and into the community. Last year they presented workshops to over 900 Oakland middle school students and participated in over 20 civic events, including public hearings and rallies.

A Call to Protect California Students

Posted January 6, 2017

Youth ALIVE! joins 120 other organizations to demand sanctuary, safety and protection for California students

Sanctuary for Students Urged

Schools are urged to help immigrants students feel safe

A Movement's Moment

Posted November 23, 2016

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Violence Intervention Conference

Youth ALIVE! Organizes National Conference of Violence Intervention Programs

Youth ALIVE! is part of a national, even an international, movement to bring immediate, trauma-informed healing to our violently wounded youth. Along with the 31 members of the National Network of Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs, we seek to interrupt, with understanding and care, the cycle of violence at this vulnerable but crucial moment in a young person’s life. The objective is to intervene with urgency, and then to support our wounded youth on their path to mental and physical recovery. This year, Youth ALIVE! organized the largest national meeting yet of organizations dedicated to addressing the trauma that persists in the aftermath of a shooting.

Lt Gov Newsom, Mayor Schaaf Seek TNT Support

Posted October 17, 2016

Lt Gov Newsom & Mayor Schaaf Meet TNT Youth Leaders on Prop 63

You can learn a lot from the young people of East Oakland. Youth ALIVE! figured that out over 25 years ago, when our Teens on Target (TNT) youth leadership program was founded at Castlemont High School. TNT participants are trained to become violence prevention educators themselves, but they are also encouraged to speak up, to make their voices heard in the effort to create a more just and peaceful community. California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf got a reminder of the value of TNT last week when they gathered with TNT youth leaders and other Castlemont students to discuss Prop 63, a November ballot measure to restrict ammunition sales and ban large capacity gun magazines.

25 Years of Prevention, Intervention & Healing: our Annual Report 2015-2016 is out!

Posted September 15, 2016

Youth ALIVE! Releases Its Annual Report for 2015-2016

Youth ALIVE! celebrated our 25th year with the release of 25 Years of Prevention, Intervention & Healing, our Annual Report. Now in our twenty-fifth year of providing prevention, intervention and healing in Oakland, we present this report on the past year of work creating young leaders, helping our violently wounded and at-risk youth live safer lives, working to keep the peace on the streets, and bringing help and healing to survivors of homicide victims. In the past year we have increased our staff and space has grown, as has our capacity to provide mental health counseling. We brought on a new program, Violence Interruption, to help resolve individual and group conflicts before they flare into violence. And we have continued to be the backbone of the National Network of Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs, with over 30 organizations nationwide and abroad that replicate the trauma-based intervention approach we invented 25 years ago. We encourage you to learn about our finances, fundraising, programs and results in 25 Years of Prevention, Intervention & Healing.

Californa Attorney General Releases 2015 State Homicide Summary

Posted July 11, 2016

California State Attorney General Kamala Harris has released her office’s annual homicide report, for 2015. It is an important s

All 11 2016 Teens on Target grads are off to college

Posted June 23, 2016

All 2016 TNT Grads Attending College

Graduation season is always bittersweet at Youth ALIVE!’s Teens On Target program. This year, 11 of our youth leaders at Castlemont High School in East Oakland graduated. We are so proud of them and we will miss each and every one of them.

YA!'s Wazi Davis Named 2016 Torchbearer

Posted June 23, 2016

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

New Urban Gun Violence Report Looks at Solutions

Posted April 20, 2016