In the 1980s a nonprofit youth development agency in oakland, california, established this program to address increasing numbers of youth homicides as a result of heightened gang activity:

The appropriate response is Teens on Target. Teens support activity is worked by YouthAlive!, a charitable youth improvement organization whose mission is to diminish youth wounds and passings through associated instruction, peer intercession, tutoring, and authority advancement. The objective of TNT is to prepare urban youth who are at danger of viciousness, including firearm savagery, to end up advocates for brutality counteractive action.