A new youth hub will help provide transitional housing for our at-risk youth.

However, a Canterbury youth worker says it will take the whole community to truly make a difference.

The Anglican Church has purchased a large block of land on Salisbury Street, specifically for the newly-established Youth Hub Trust to lease and use for mental health, medical, social and housing support.

The Hub will work with youth aged 16 to 25.

Youth Hub Trust chair Doctor Sue Bagshaw says everyone in the community needs to play a part in helping youth facing difficult, but not insurmountable, challenges, and describes what they're facing.

"A lot of anxiety which ends up making the mood go down. People with history of having been through traumas of various sorts, whether they have witnessed violence or been apart of it, verbal, physical, emotional, lots of things like that and that takes its toll."

She says the new site will bring together several specialist youth services and they will be much more effective in their work.

"We have been looking for land for about two to three years now and we are just so grateful to the generosity of the Anglican church for purchasing land on our behalf in order to lease it for this purpose, it's just brilliant."