"Everyone can be a leader for a healthier Aotearoa. Working together, we can create a healthier community now and for future generations"
"Together we can make the changes in our communities to empower people to eat well, be physically active, be smoke-free and only drink alcohol in moderation"
"A healthier Aotearoa starts in the places where we live, learn, work and play. Strengthening leadership and spreading innovation can drive healthier environments."
"Reaching back into the past and bringing forward generations of best practice, drawing on cultural wealth, growing iwi intelligence to lead in health and well-being"
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Healthy Families NZ is a large-scale initiative that brings community leadership together in a united effort for better health.

It aims to improve people’s health where they live, learn, work and play by taking a dynamic systems approach to preventing chronic disease. The Healthy Families NZ approach is underpinned by a set of principles including an explicit focus on equity, improving Māori health and reducing for groups at increased risk of chronic diseases. Healthy Families NZ locations do not fund or deliver services, or interventions within their communities, but accelerate and mobilize action within the health system and beyond. This has been a crucial difference by Healthy Families NZ compared to previous initiatives funded by Ministry of Health.
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Healthy Families Rotorua is dedicated to working with our local communities to improve the health and well-being of our community where they live, learn, work and play.
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We influence the health of our community where we live, learn, work and play. We work in partnership with others to improve community wellbeing.
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Healthy Families Rotorua activate collaborative partnerships and leadership to influence the health and well-being of our community where we live, learn, work and play.
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CO-CHAIR awarded MNZM

He mihi tēnei nā ō karangatanga, nā He Oranga Whānau Aotearoa. Healthy Families Rotorua and the wider Healthy Families NZ whānau congratulate Cathy Cooney, co-Chair

June 16, 2021

#MayChallenge2021

Healthy Families Rotorua and Te Arawa Whānau Ora have completed #MayChallenge2021 – an initiative to get staff active, connected, and prepared for the winter season.

May 25, 2021

Mapihi moves to Lakes DHB

If you’re open to change you’re an innovator. That’s the call from Healthy Families Rotorua leader, Mapihi Raharuhi, who left the organisation this month to

April 27, 2021
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