The Mentoring Plus project, which is being funded by the Youth Justice Board and run by the local Connexions partnership, is a three-year project to train around 75 young people. At the moment, 23 volunteers from organisations such as the African Caribbean Project, Oldham Bangladeshi Youth Association and the Pakistani Youth Association are being trained, with a view to starting the project in September.
Kashif Ashraf, Mentoring Plus co-ordinator at Connexions Oldham, said: "The whole aim of the project is to give ethnic minority young offenders access to someone from their own community to speak to, and the mentors act as 'friends' to help them talk about issues if they want one."
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