Alive & Free Consortium
How do we prevent violence across the country and globally?
Join a group professionals and organizations dedicating to practicing and promoting the Alive & Free Prescription to End Violence and Change Lives.
The Alive & Free Consortium is a group of professionals and organizations dedicated to preventing violence by using and promoting the Alive & Free Prescription developed by the Alive & Free/Omega Boys Club in San Francisco, California.
Founded in October 2003, the Alive & Free Consortium was developed at the request of individuals across the country who had previously attended the Alive & Free Training Institute and were actively engaged in violence prevention work. They felt the need for a formal organization that would support them as they combat violence in their communities.
The mission of the Consortium is to keep young people alive (unharmed by violence) and free (from incarceration) by promoting the understanding and adoption the Alive & Free Prescription as a way to prevent violence. The Founder and President of the Consortium is Joseph E. Marshall, Jr. PhD, co-founder and Executive Director of Alive & Free. In 2006 the Consortium launched the Alive & Free Movement.
The Alive & Free Prescription sees violence as a public health issue and this disease framework is a key principle that all Consortium members espouse.
Watch our Street Soldiers Radio episode featuring our Consortium members!
Viewing violence from a public health/disease perspective:
- Frames violence at the community and individual level as treatable and avoidable.
- Identifies specific precursors of violence as avoidable.
- Identifies young people–including perpetrators of violence–as victims of the disease of violence rather than as “bad” people, while at the same time placing responsibility to reduce the risk of violence on the individuals themselves.
- Provides specific methods and techniques for individuals and organizations to prevent violence in themselves and in their communities.
Activities for the Consortium include:
- Yearly Consortium Planning Retreats
- Refresher Training Institutes
- Sponsoring regional and national conferences to teach and promote the Alive & Free violence prevention methodology
- Creation of a “train the trainer” program to increase the number of individuals available to train individuals and organizations in the Alive & Free methodology.
- Developing an army of street soldiers—individuals committed to eliminating violence in their own lives, in the community, across the nation and around the world.
Those interested in becoming members of the Consortium should apply for the Alive & Free Training Institute or Contact Us.
Alive & Free Consortium Members
USA - West
Dr. Joseph Marshall
Consortium President, Executive Director
Alive & Free
San Francisco, CA
Email: drj@stayaliveandfree.org
Diane Gray
Executive Director
100% College Prep
San Francisco, CA
Email: diane@100collegeprep.org
Dr. John Haller
Program Evaluator
Alive & Free
Email: johnhaller@astound.net
Jeri Marshall
Outreach Specialist
American River College
Sacramento, CA
Email: marshaj@arc.losrios.edu
Khalid Elahi
Executive Director Life Coach Elahi Foundation
Richmond, CA
Email: khalidelahi792@gmail.com
Kristina Thompson
Executive Director
For Youth By Youth (FYBY)
Work
East Palo Alto, CA
Email: kristinagracethompson@gmail.com
Heather Starnes
Live In Peace
Executive Director
East Palo Alto, CA
Email: heather@liveinpeace.org
Stefan Wilson
Overcoming Gangs & Beyond Alive and Free San Diego
San Diego, CA
Email: overcominggangs@aim.com & AliveAndFreeSanDiego@gmail.com
DeVitta Briscoe
Program Manager
Metrocenter YMCA
Seattle, WA
Email: devitta.briscoe@gmail.com
Shalisa Hayes
Founder and President
The Billy Ray Foundation
PO Box 8177 Tacoma, WA 98419
Email: billyraycc@gmail.com
Website: billyray.org
Garey Thompson
Rosa Lucas
D’Veal Family and Youth Services
Pasadena, CA
Email: Gthom4529@hotmail.com & Rlucas@dveal.org
Heather Sanderson
Program Coordinator
City of Fairfield
Fairfield, CA
Email: hsanderson@fairfield.ca.gov
Shervon Hunter Executive Director Stand in Peace Email: standinpeaceinc@gmail.com 415-289-5974
Website: http://standinpeaceinc.org
Dr. Michael Rubino
President
The Lucas Center
Pleasant Hill, CA
Email: DrMike@RCS-CA.COM
Montone White
Montone White, M.S.
Co-founder/Mentor
THUGLIFE-Manhood Restored/Alive and Free
6568 Bush Clover Ln
Las Vegas, NV 89156
Email: montonew81@gmail.com
Website: dunamisprocess.com
Wanda Hackett, PhD
Black Child Development Institute,
Seattle Affiliate,
Chair, Social Justice & Equity for Youth Committe
Email: whecare@aol.com
Phone Number: 206-328-4452
Tamisha Walker
Executive Director
Safe Return Project
Wanda Hackett
Program Manager
TBD
TBD
Email: whecare@aol.com
USA - Midwest
Maurice Scott
Executive Director
Martin Luther King Recreation Center
South Bend, IN Email: mscott@southbendin.gov Work: 574.235.9445
Pastor Tony E. Sanders Jr.
CEO Family First: A Call to Action
Koinonia House of Worship
Omaha, NE
Email: sevensprt@aol.com
USA - South
Roderick Stevenson
Executive Director
Futures, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
Email: rsteve1962@aol.com
International
CANADA
Tamiko Ferguson
Guidance Counselor Kingston Secondary School Kingston Ontario, Canada
Email: fergusonta@limestone.on.ca
SOUTH AFRICA
Llowellyn Syce
Principal
Breede Valley School of Skills
South Africa
Email:
SOUTH AFRICA
Whidney Prins
Director of Operations
Ubomi Youth Foundation
South Africa
Email: whidney@ubomi.org.za
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