YA! Advocacy
Posted: August 28, 2018
Seeking Change that Lasts There’s more than one way to change the world. The East Oakland students who started our Teens on Target youth leadership program […]
Continue ReadingFrom Parkland to Oakland
Posted: August 28, 2018
Our Annual Report 2017-2018 The report we release today, Listening to Our Youth: From Parkland to Oakland, lists results from all of our programs. It includes two […]
Continue ReadingBarbara Lee Joins YA!’s Honorary Advisory Council
Posted: May 21, 2018
And TNT Leaders Meet Michelle Obama We are thrilled to announce that the East Bay’s great congressional representative Barbara Lee is joining Youth ALIVE!’s Honorary Advisory […]
Continue ReadingWe Are the Change!
Posted: May 21, 2018
Speaking Truth With Power Last Thursday in Sacramento Youth ALIVE! and Teens on Target youth leaders stood up and said “Enough is enough” and reminded the world that […]
Continue ReadingOn June 21st, Meet Oakland’s Youth Activists for Gun Safety
Posted: May 23, 2018
Electric Times for Young Activists These are electric times for the young violence prevention activists like those in our Teens on Target (TNT) leadership program. […]
Continue ReadingFormer TNT Youth Leader Smooth Wickliff in The Guardian
Posted: May 2, 2018
Smooth on Giving up the Gun On the eve of last month’s March for our Lives, the Guardian sought commentary from current and former Teens on […]
Continue ReadingDymond Garrett is Glad You’re Listening
Posted: April 3, 2018
TNT Youth Leader on #NeverAgain TNT youth leader Dymond Garrett has written a searing but hopeful piece for Youth Radio about the #NeverAgain movement, growing up […]
Continue ReadingCelebrate with us on June 21st!
Posted: March 25, 2018
We’re sold out! See you at our annual celebration dinner and auction.
Continue ReadingAfter Parkland, TNT Youth Leaders Speak
Posted: March 6, 2018
Young Oakland Voices Heard The outrageous, unnecessary destruction of lives in Parkland, Florida, has rightly inspired great sympathy for the grieving. For many (though somehow not […]
Continue ReadingYouth ALIVE! featured on NPR’s Snap Judgement
Posted: March 5, 2018
On a year of Oakland violence Members of the Snap Judgement radio and podcast crew cover a year of homicides in Oakland in their episode called […]
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