We are Oakland’s community-based violence prevention, intervention, and healing agency.

Our Programs

We’re not city government, and we’re not the police. We’re of and by the community, and our wraparound services are always free.

Teens on Target

Teens on Target trains high school students to educate their peers about how to prevent violence, mediate conflicts, and advocate to improve the safety of their own communities to elected officials and the public.
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Violence Interrupters

Our guardians of peace delicately navigate tension within our community, extinguishing individual and group conflicts and stopping violence before it starts.
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Caught in the Crossfire

Our Intervention Specialists meet survivors of violence at their hospital bedside and provide practical and logistical services to support healing, discourage retaliation, and return survivors to their communities.
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Pathways

Pathways connects at-promise youth with experienced Intervention Specialists to provide various post-release services, including educational assistance, legal aid, employment support, mentoring, and life skills training.
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Khadafy Washington Project

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.
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Counseling Services

We provide healing-centered individual and group counseling sessions to support individuals impacted by trauma and violence.
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Legislative Action

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 that are designed to save lives in Oakland and beyond.
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Advocacy for Change

Youth Alive’s advocacy work is centered around the experiences of our youth, clients, and staff. We create platforms to hear, capture, and share their stories to better inform how policymakers, community leaders, and Youth Alive supporters understand the human impact of violence and the need to prioritize violence prevention, intervention, and healing.
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85%

of Teens on Target students would talk a friend out of carrying a gun.

98%

of Oakland families affected by homicide are reached by YA crisis responders.

100+

violently wounded youth over a 4-year period successfully re-enrolled in school.

Youth ALIVE!’s Deputy Director John Torres Represents at White House Roundtable on Preventing Gun Violence in Latino Communities