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Advancing the mana and hauora of people through sport
Wellington Rugby League is a leader amongst our Regional Sporting Organisations for the way they are driving their health and wellbeing strategy for the rugby league community in Wellington. Wellington Rugby League appointed a new CEO Andre Whittaker in January 2021,...
Exploring Covid-19 Alcohol deliveries
Healthy Families Hutt Valley has a focus on reducing the harm caused by alcohol, where people have safer patterns of drinking behaviour, environments support low-risk drinking, harmful drinking is not visible to our children and young people and community wellbeing...
Investment in walking and cycling continues
Walking and cycling are big topics at the moment, with active transport recognised as playing a significant role in transitioning to a sustainable transport system and meeting our climate goals.We’re seeing unprecedented commitment to walking and cycling related...
Growing our understanding and practice through pou
Healthy Families Hutt Valley is working on creating better partnerships with our hapori Māori. To build strong partnerships, it is important to continue developing our understanding of Māori culture and values. This deepened understanding allows for a more authentic,...
Ko te wai te ora o ngā mea kātoa | Water is the life giver of all things
The concept of Wai Ora captures the importance of how the state of our environments where we live, learn, work and play have a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of our people.Our Lead Systems Innovator Eddie Edmonds has recently completed the Wai Ora...
The power of a word – Prevention
Healthy Families NZ is a prevention initiative that takes a systems approach to improve the health and wellbeing of whole populations within localities in order to prevent the rise of chronic disease. Each Healthy Families NZ locality is different; the people,...
Strengthened relationships helping connect the kai system
Making good kai the reality for our people is a top priority for Healthy Families Hutt Valley. Kai plays an important part in our lives, it brings whānau and communities together and is one of the key ways we share and celebrate our culture and family traditions. In...
Taking a locality approach to designing health and wellbeing into our lives
From the very begininng of the Healthy Families NZ movement, we’ve collectively aimed to take a systems approach to making the places we spend our time in more health promoting. Over the past six years, Healthy Families Hutt Valley has worked in partnership with our...
Planning for growth and growing kai
Recently, Regional Public Health, Common Unity Project Aotearoa and Healthy Families Hutt Valley worked together to raise awareness of the opportunity to input into the draft Wellington Regional Growth Framework (WRGF). This included engaging with members of the...
Celebrating local leadership Driving Change
Leadership is one of the building blocks of a strong prevention system, it plays a key enabling role in redesigning our systems to benefit the health and wellbeing of our people and planet. At Healthy Families Hutt Valley we value and often talk about the importance...
Engaging young people to be active with dirtskool initiative
dirtsKool is the adrenaline pumping, active based learning initiative which is getting Wellington students out and about on our local mountain bike trails. The first ever school-based initiative of its type, thanks to funding from Nuku Ora’s Tū Manawa Active Aotearoa...
Building Momentum in a time of change
There is change in the air! A shift is being felt as more detail is being shared about transformative change in the Health and Local Government systems and existing work across the public sector builds momentum. As a Ministry of Health funded initiative led from...
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