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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All of our programs, whether for violence prevention, intervention or healing, rely on building positive, trusting relationships with the people we serve. It is why our staff is recruited from the community we serve, and it is why they are gifted entry into the lives of people in crisis, whey they are permitted to support them in their journey to healing. It is a thing people like YA! staffers Andrea Piazza or Marilyn Harris or Ernest Ynostrosa can do that the police would struggle to do if they were interested: to gain the trust that allows you to make a difference in someone’s life. KQED radio spoke with YA!’s Khadafy Washington Project Manager Jasmine Hardison recently about the surge in violence we have seen in the past two years. Naturally, Jasmine talked about relationships:
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