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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

Teens on Target Youth Leaders Take the City

Posted April 20, 2016

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.

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. To stem the tide of violence, former victims are stepping up to take care of their own. San Francisco Magazine details how Youth ALIVE! is making a difference in Oakland with their Teens on Target, Caught in the Crossfire, and Khadafy Washington Project programs.

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. Demetria Huntsman, Program Director of Youth ALIVE’s Teens on Target program was a guest on the show.

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. Aired December 15, 2015.

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. They argued that violence requires the same public health approaches that are used to fight diseases. Youth ALIVE! agrees. Their approach