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The victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and two minors were taken into custody, according to Oakland Police. Police said two firearms were recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe role that violence interrupters play is to focus on the time immediately before and after an incident of violence,\u201d Griffin said. \u201cWe can understand when tensions are getting high and can get in front of that \u2026 and in the case when there is violence, we can be there in the immediate aftermath to try to bring down the tensions to make sure that retaliation doesn\u2019t occur.\u201d<\/p>\n

The School Violence Intervention and Prevention program evolved out of a partnership between the district, the city and local nonprofits to bring intervention and gender-based violence workers and life coaches into schools.<\/p>\n

Initially, violence interrupters rotated across multiple campuses, but in fall of 2023, they were assigned at seven high schools and continuing schools throughout the district, and have expanded to more sites, including Skyline.<\/p>\n

During the program\u2019s first year, OUSD saw a 10% reduction<\/a> in suspensions for physical violence across its high schools. In 2024, interrupters mediated more than 260 conflicts, according to Griffin.<\/p>\n

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The Oakland Unified School District Offices in Oakland on April 28, 2025. (Martin do Nascimento\/KQED)<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When violence occurs on campus, Griffin said, interrupters help ensure conflicts don\u2019t lead to retaliation and identify whether it might spill off campus. He said in the hours after the shooting at Skyline on Wednesday, other Youth ALIVE! interruptors working throughout the city came to the school site to provide support.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the moment where we could start to coordinate between our school-based programs and our community-based programs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Hutchinson said this week\u2019s shooting underscores a need to expand the program \u2014 not let it expire when funding dries up this spring.<\/p>\n

The city allocated $5.4 million to the program in its 2023-2025 budget, and the district also received a nearly $1 million grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to fund three additional interrupters for three years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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