The North East's leading newspaper 'The Journal' featured a full page article on November 11 highlighting the work of the Northumbria Coalition Against Crime.

The article tells the story of Dominique, a confused 14-year-old from Gateshead who took up shoplifting. Painfully shy and frustrated by her inabilityto read because of dyslexia, she was in despair at the time.

After being caught, arrested by the police and convicted, she was put in touch with the Coalition's Odysseus Mentoring Project (OMP).

The newspaper article goes on to describe how with the help of her mentor, Cheryl Harvey, Dominique has become an "eridite and confident young women of 18" who is now "very different from the teenager who decided to steal for something to do."

The entire article has been reproduced in pdf format by the Coalition. If you would like to read it click here.

Northumbria Coalition Against Crime, Northumbria Police HQ, Ponteland, Newcastle upon Tyne NE20 0BL
Telephone 01661 868 424, Fax 01661 868488, E-mail [email protected]