Our youth leaders featured in NPR video
TNT students speak up As part of the ongoing national conversation around gun violence, brought to the forefront with the anniversary of the Parkland School shooting, […]
Violence Is A Public Health Issue
YA! featured in Pacific Standard Youth ALIVE!, National Network of Hospital Based Violence Intervention (NNHVIP), and peer programs like Cure Violence joined together to talk violence […]
Ricardo Garcia-Acosta on KALW’s Your Call
“Jobs Save Lives. Jobs Stop Bullets” Youth ALIVE!’s Ricardo Garcia-Acosta was a guest on KALW’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar recently, for a panel discussion of […]
Former TNT Youth Leader Smooth Wickliff in The Guardian
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 […]
Dymond Garrett is Glad You’re Listening
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 […]
After Parkland, TNT Youth Leaders Speak
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 […]
Youth ALIVE! featured on NPR’s Snap Judgement
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 […]
Working to Reduce Violence in the Bay Area
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 […]
The Hidden Trauma of Living in Fear – YA on MSNBC
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. See the full […]
Ebony Magazine: Anti-Gang Programs Approach Violence As a Disease. YA’s Executive Director Featured.
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 […]