The young person who needs work experience to get hired, but needs a job to fund work experience. The teacher who can see that a child needs counselling, but finds the CAMHS threshold means they must reach crisis point to be eligible. The young gang member who wants to escape violence but only feels safe by carrying a knife.
These situations are all ‘Catch22s' - a dilemma for which the only possible solution is impossible, precisely because of the dilemma. Our organisation, Catch22, has been helping to solve social problems for over 200 years, but our name is relatively new.
The term was coined by Joseph Heller as the title of his best-selling 1961 novel. It tells the story of a WW2 pilot, Yoassarian, who is the victim of a ludicrous army policy to fly on ever more dangerous missions.
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