The overall purpose of the Youth Hub is to assist the healthy development of young people between 10 and 25 years old who need support. The Youth Hub is not just geographic but also functional and brings together groups addressing youth issues in a shared space both physically and through connections via websites, email and social media.
About Us
About
The Youth Hub
Overall Purpose
Assisting healthy development of young people
Young people all need support as they develop and leave home. Many get that support from their parents and family. Some do not, for many different reasons, and as a result need extra support. They often have poor mental and physical health, no home to live in, no job, no money, and are lacking in education.
We aim to help by providing easily accessible free services and supported housing. Then, once they have established regular income with the support of supervision and training available on site, they will be able to transition into housing of their own.
This hub of independent organisations will work together to help overcome the barriers of cost, lack of transport and lack of knowledge about where to go.
It will avoid gaps and overlaps in the provision of services and to encourage co-operation and collaboration rather than competition between organisations.
Trust Board members are as follows:
Sue Bagshaw – (Chairperson) Youth Health Doctor who set up 198 then 298, and the Collaborative Trust
Phil Bagshaw – General Surgeon who set up the Canterbury Charity Hospital
Jules Fulton – Group Executive Manager Stakeholder Relations at Fulton-Hogan
Phil Siataga – Community Health Promoter
Judge Rob Murfitt – Family Youth and District Court Judge
Ingrid Taylor – Partner in the law firm Taylor Shaw and expert in Trust Law
Derek Benfield – Accountant
Kane Stewart – Secondary School Teacher
Wiremu Gray – Cultural Supervisor, Consultant, Counsellor
The values of the Trust include:
- Ensuring that the Principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi are used as a founding document.
- Using the Youth Development Strategy Aotearoa (YDSA) as a founding document
- Encouraging young people to be partners in leadership
- Engaging young people with warmth, acceptance and respect
- Focussing on young peoples’ abilities, strengths and aspirations
- Believing positive growth is possible by emphasising transformational values personally, socially and environmentally