Goal: To reduce offending by young people by providing them with anadult mentor
Funding: The Northumbrian Coalition Against Crime is funded by a mixtureof grants and membership fees. AOL is funding the web site
Contact: Danny Gilchrist, 0191 230 0808, www.thecoalition.org.uk
When in The Odyssey, Odysseus put his friend Mentor in charge of lookingafter his family while he went off on a perilous quest there probablyweren't too many education manuals for them to consult.
But modern day Newcastle is a little different from Bronze Age Greeceand now the mentors and young people on the city's Odysseus project areset to have a new online source of support.
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