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My name is Donna Marsh and I currently work as a Registered Mental Health Nurse in a Prison working mainly with young offenders with mental health problems. I have worked with young people for the past 7 years and find this client group very interesting. With the rise of knife and gun crime in England, I have many dealings with gang members and find it fascinating to find out why young people join gangs and engage in this kind of gang activity. Due to this, I have also been involved in the making of a DVD to raise awareness of knife crime in the UK in conjunction with the prison and a local school, this has been distributed to schools and Young Offenders Institutes across the country.

Introduction

Introduction to my blog:





This web blog follows my journey from England to the United States, where I will be meeting people who work within Youth Justice, predominately those who work with gang members both inside and outside prison.



My journey

My journey

Introduction

You can read more about me, the purpose of my trip, my story so far, what my plans are and what I hope to achieve in the supplementary sections below:



About the Winston Churchill Fellowship

Due to my great interest in this topic, I decided to apply for a Travelling Fellowship through the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to travel to America to look at the Youth Justice System and how they work to try and deter young people from joining gangs and using weapons such as knives and guns.

This organisation has been running since 1965 and has awarded thousands of grants to travel overseas. They sponsor individuals to travel to another country to research into a topic they are passionate about to then bring back the knowledge they have learnt and teach others in order to learn from their experiences.

The aim of this being, not only to demonstrate a benefit to the United Kingdom as a whole, but also to provide the individual with an opportunity for personal development. These trips usually last between 4 and 12 weeks and can be taken any time from April 2010-March 2011.

This year, I was one of the lucky 110 people to be chosen out of over a thousand from all ages, races and backgrounds to be funded by the organisation. To read more about the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust please follow this link:  http://www.wcmt.org.uk/

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