Catch 22
Janice Wilson
Shield House
Elizabeth Way
The Pinnacles
HARLOW
CM19 5AR
Tel : 01279 408370
Email Address : janice.wilson@catch-22.org.uk
Website : www.catch-22.org.uk
Special Interests:
Over the years, we have worked with tens of thousands of young people in difficult situations. They may come from tough upbringings or neighbourhoods, where poverty, crime and unemployment are common features. They may be leaving care, truanting, or have been excluded from school. Some of them have started getting into trouble with the police or may have got as far as custody.
We've found that most of these young people want the same things as everyone else - to find a job they enjoy, somewhere safe to live and to stand on their own two feet. But these goals can sometimes seem impossible.
For some young people, life is a series of no-win decisions and situations. One thing can lead to another until everything is all tangled up and there seems to be no way out.
We focus on five areas where our work can make a real and lasting difference in young people's lives, for their families and for the whole community. These five areas rarely standalone, each one can affect the other. Catch 22 deals with them all.
These are under the broad headings of:
Learn Earn a Living Live Somewhere Safe Steer Clear of Crime Give Something Back
Other Relevant Information:
Catch 22 is a national charity that works with young people who find themselves in difficult situations. Whatever the reason for their situation, we help them out. We work with their families and their communities wherever and whenever young people need us most; in schools, on the streets, in the home, at community centres, shopping centres, in police stations, and in custody.
As young people become more positive, productive and independent, the whole community benefits.
Before we became Catch 22, we were Rainer and Crime Concern, two national charities that came together in 2008.
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