Results
Why donate to Youth Alive? Your donation can have a big impact on our programs for young lives & traumatized families in Oakland.
Teens on Target impact
Teens on Target engages students to teach their peers to prevent violence and transform their communities.
259
Students engaged by 82 TNT leaders through 91 violence prevention workshops in the 2023-2024 school year.
2,380
Number of 1:1 . mentoring hours TNT leaders received in the 2023 - 2024 school year.
66
Number of community engagements TNT leaders participated in in the city of Oakland.
But my favorite TNT thing is what we do in the second half of the year, when we go into the middle school classrooms and speak to the younger students about violence prevention. We do skits and read poems. After they do our workshops they all want to come to Castlemont and join TNT. Some of them do and they remember me and come up to me in the hallway and say they’d seen me at their middle school. Now I’m the older one. Because of TNT, I’m a role model.
Violence Interruption impact
Our guardians of peace delicately navigate tension within our community, extinguishing individual and group conflicts and stopping violence before it starts.
424
number of mediations conducted in Oakland. Of those, 385 resolved without further violence.
112
Number of safety assessments at hospital bedsides of shooting victims.
What we do as Violence Interrupters is provide the possibility of an alternative outcome. An alternative to getting arrested, to getting shot, or getting killed. We elevate better options for people.
Caught in the crossfire IMPACT
Our Intervention Specialists meet survivors of violence at their hospital bedside and provide practical and logistical services to support healing.
113
Clients Served
99%
of our 113 clients were not re-injured. In 2024, only 1 client out of 113 was re-injured.
64
received assistance in attaining Victim of Crime compensation
43
received mental health counseling
I can’t fully express what Youth Alive has meant to me, and to my family. After I got shot, it was a long, painful recovery. I thought that was it. Youth Alive helped me heal, helped me find a voice, and gave me a purpose. I would not be where I am today without my case manager, and the opportunities I’ve gotten as a result of my time with Youth Alive.
Pathways IMPACT
Pathways connects at-promise youth with experienced Intervention Specialists to provide mentorship and support services.
74
number of youth mentored in the 2024 Pathways program
40
Pathways youth received job training, 17 of which started a new job in 2024.
39
number of youth provided with legal advocacy or court accompaniment
23
Pathways youth received counseling or mental health services.
Working with my mentor was the first time someone really believed in me and my potential. They always showed up for me, checked in on me, and told me they were proud of me. I never knew how much I needed to hear that. Now I’m proud of myself.
Khadafy Washington Project Impact
We serve nearly 100% of families of Oakland homicide victims with financial, emotional, and practical support in the aftermath of losing a loved one to violence.
85
number of families affected by homicide served by KWP, including some outside of Oakland, in 2024.
21
number of family members who participated in 12 Circle of Care healing circles in 2024.
Marilyn and Tammy helped me through the worst time of my life, but that was only the beginning of my relationship with Youth Alive. There is life after a tragedy like mine. I’m grateful to Youth ALIVE! for helping me find that life.
Counseling Services IMPACT
We provide healing-centered individual and group counseling sessions to support individuals impacted by trauma and violence.
88
Number of clients served in 2024
2206
Number of counseling hours provided by Youth Alive in 2024.
While there is still a big stigma in our community on mental health services, we at Youth Alive know that mental health is part of physical health. We also know that while hurt people can hurt people, healed people have the power to foster healing in others.
Legislative Action Impact
We use Youth Alive’s 30 years of experience and expertise in addressing violence and serving victims and survivors of crime to develop policy solutions at the local, statewide, and national level.
AB 28
YA! sponsored which created a permanent funding stream for violence prevention and intervention programs around California through an excise tax on firearms and ammunition, making CA the first state to tax the firearm industry's record profits to pay for violence prevention and intervention programs.
Medi-Cal
We worked to implement AB 1929, which required the state of California to fund violence prevention services through Medi-Cal, the states's Medicaid system.
This work requires constant, intentional outreach, creating platforms to hear directly from those closest to the issue and convert what they are saying into policy change. It is something that, because of our position in the community, really only Youth Alive! is able to do.
Advocacy for Change impact
Youth Alive’s advocacy work is centered around the experiences of our youth, clients, and staff, and we create platforms to hear, capture, and share their stories to better inform policymakers.
$23m
Funds allocated for Trauma Recovery Centers in the California Victims Compensation Program
$50m
Funds allocated for Flexible Assistance to Survivors of Violence in the California Victims Compensation Program
$209M
Approved by Governor Newsom for Violence Prevention and Intervention across CA after meeting with Youth ALIVE! and colleagues in May 2021, the largest investment any state has committed to these life-saving programs.
Youth Alive’s advocacy ignited my voice for systemic change, empowering me to shape a brighter future for our community. I never thought a lawmaker cared about what happened to me. Now I know my voice is essential.