Alive & Free | Omega Boys Club

Alive & Free is a life-changing program that helps young people in the Bay Area and around the world. Every young person has the potential to succeed. Sadly, violence which spreads like a disease in our communities locks up that potential and leaves young people incarcerated and in many cases dead. Alive & Free is the prescription that puts an end to this violence. Young people who have learned the Alive & Free prescription have a new set of life skills to make choices that help them go to college, succeed in life, and give back to their communities. Background Alive & Free is the name of the violence prevention program founded at the Omega Boys Club-a nationally recognized youth development and violence prevention organization headquartered in San Francisco, CA. At the heart of the Alive & Free PrescriptionTM is the notion that violence is a social disease with an explicit treatment process. Like a medical disease, it is transmitted by the germs of bad information,...