Social services play a huge role in best treating the struggles and symptoms of youth crime and focuses on the causation's with out any judgement.

The Transitional Hub situated at Good Shepherd Catholic Church has seen positive results but also understand there is a long journey ahead.

Father Mick Lowcock of Good Shepherd Catholic Church said the Hub has been running since June last year and its whole design was to get kids off the streets and into a home.

"There is a lot of opportunistic crime late at night and the cost these crimes have on the community are very high," Fr Lowcock said.

"If money is stolen by someone in a youth gang, the money is shared between everyone and that child can now stay in the gang and they are seen as cool, it's an ongoing cycle.

"So what we do is them something to eat, get them a bit tired and give them a good amount of time out of their home."

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Fr Lowcock said it was a small amount of kids who were causing the huge problem.

"We have to tackle it on an individual case by case standard.

"A lot of the kids who commit youth crime come from disadvantaged and homes with not much money. We work on building trust with the parents and continually work on making sure the kids are happy."

Fr Lowcock said things have changed since his time in Mount Isa.

"When I first arrived here 27 years ago you probably didn't have to lock your doors. But now I think now there is a bigger divide between the rich and the poor.

"I also think now departments are now far more focused on trying to look after Aboriginal people, 27 years ago it was not like that whereas now we have Aboriginal people working in agencies and looking after their own people," he said.

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