In an October 5th, 2022, article, The Guardian considers new FBI statistics on homicides and looks specifically at recent killings in Oakland, speaking with survivors Youth ALIVE! is working with.
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The last two weeks have been particularly trying for Oakland. All of Youth ALIVE!’s resources have been deployed in the community to support students, families, teachers, and schools, to mitigate further violence, and bring the community together to heal.
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Filled with stories, pictures and program results, this year’s report is really all about the difficult task of healing after violence, and the many things our programs and staff do to help people and our city heal. Because we know that, while violence leads to more violence, healing is also contagious. We see it every day; as our clients who came to us traumatized by an act of violence begin to regain their health and wholeness, they begin to help others do the same. Healed people heal people. Those are the stories you will find in this report from our staff, so many of whom have themselves been hurt by gun violence.
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In a Day of Action organized by Oakland District 7 Councilmember Treva Reid, service organizations from across the city spread out up and down eight blocks of International Boulevard yesterday to engage the community and to raise awareness of available assistance and support for everything from housing to violence prevention.
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It is with anticipation and appreciation that the Board of Directors announces Anne Marks’s upcoming departure as Executive Director of Youth ALIVE!.
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Legislation includes groundbreaking bill that covers violence prevention services under Medicaid
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A message to our friends, from Lauren, Anne, Carlos, Mike, Gabe, Paris, Juan, Jim, Caheri and the entire YA! staff and board:
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Traumatized victims should have access to the crucial healing work of violence prevention professionals like those on the staffs of our programs. That was the point made forcefully before the Legislature in Sacramento on April 5th by YA! Policy and Advocacy Director Gabriel Garcia and former YA! Intervention Director Kyndra Simmons. Gabriel and Kyndra were testifying in support of AB 1929, a bill to create a Community Violence Prevention and Recovery Program under the Medi-Cal system.
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