Goals: To develop a model of practice and consultation with hard-to-reach young people
Funding: Just under 100,000 from Comic Relief until 2007
Getting young people to open up is difficult at the best of times, especially when they are not used to speaking out, but Include Youth's Young Voices project in Belfast has been doing just that.
Run by support and development worker Mat Crozier, Young Voices has been working with 20 young people from one of the most marginalised groups in Northern Ireland - young offenders.
The project aims to gather the views of 16- to 21-year-olds who have had some experience with the criminal justice system, in order to provide feedback to the authorities.
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