Before the Benefits System, There’s the Belief System At Oasis Care, we work with young people aged 16 to 18 who are learning to trust again, rebuild routines, and imagine a future that feels both safe and possible. For most of them, “employment pathways” aren’t yet about wages or work allowances — they start much earlier: with confidence, belonging, and the belief that the future can be different from the past . That’s why, two years after the YMCA’s Breaking Barriers to Wor