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,...

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...

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...

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...

The newly created Koha Kai Pātaka at Walter Nash Park in Taitā emerged out of insights that the local food system and environment is not meeting the basic needs of people living in Taitā. While connecting and learning from people in the community, it became apparent...

How might we grow our understanding as a community the value of wai? This is one of the questions we’re exploring as we evolve our wai kaupapa from increasing access and availability to wai as the drink of choice, towards growing and building an understanding of the...