The Youth Hub Christchurch is a collaboration of services and youth housing with opportunities for recreation, creation and entrepreneurship to support vulnerable young people aged 10-25 years, and assist them to reach their full potential. 

The Youth Hub will consists of 13 organisations providing a vast range of support services for youth and their families. 

Sue envisions the Christchurch Youth Hub becoming a successful prototype that can modelled in other centres around New Zealand.
Learn more about this high impact project
www.youthhubchch.org.nz
The exciting prospect of a "one stop shop" Youth Hub in central Christchurch is a game changer for vulnerable youth, it is the brain child of Dame Sue Bagshaw. 
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Watch this inspiring video about the Brilliant Bagshaws.
The Youth Hub is being set up by by the Youth Hub Trust - Te Hurihanga o Rangatahi (the Turning Point).
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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
The Youth Hub Christchurch is focused on creating mental health.
It was a pleasure to hear of the He Ara Oranga report saying that we need to have more investment into mental ill health, but we also need more investment in creating mental health, because we try and treat mental ill health … but we forget that we also have to actually create some mental health." Dame Sue Bagshaw. Quoted from One News Report. June 2019.

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