Our goal at Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is for New Zealanders to experience positive mental health and wellbeing. We aim to reduce the impact of depression and anxiety on the lives of New Zealanders and create a nation that values and includes people with experience of mental illness, so that all New Zealanders can participate in society and in the everyday life of their communities and whānau. This work encompasses two programmes of activity:

National Depression Initiative – This initiative focuses on reducing the impacts of depression and anxiety on adults and young people through early recognition and appropriate treatment. Find out more at depression.org.nz and thelowdown.co.nz. You can find resources that promote these two websites on this page.

Nōku te Ao is a national programme to increase social inclusion and reduce stigma and discrimination for people with experience of mental illness. 

For more information about what we do, please see: hpa.org.nz/programme/mental-health

Te Tari Taiwhenua Department of Internal Affairs and Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora have updated the Gamble Host resources to reflect the 2023 amendments to the Harm Minimisation Regulations 2004. 

The suite of Gamble Host resources provides education, guidance and training packages to societies, clubs, and venues that manage class 4 gambling. They include:

• leaflets and posters for use with people that gamble
• quick reference resources for use on the floor inside venues 
• guidance for venue managers and staff to help carry out their responsibilities
• training tools and resources for people who deliver training to staff that supervise class 4 gambling.

You can get further information on your responsibilities when providing Class 4 gambling on the DIA website.

Our Safer Gambling Aotearoa campaign aims to increase awareness of the early signs of harmful gambling. It encourages people to seek help and take positive action early, both for themselves and for those they care about. 

Health NZ promotes these messages at a national level and works with various services around the country to promote these at a local level.

You can visit the Safer Gambling Aotearoa website for more information.

The Health Promotion Directorate provides tools and resources about nutrition and activity to support people who work with families and communities.  

Topics of focus include:

• reducing consumption of sugary drinks and promoting water as the drink of choice
• encouraging people to sit less and move more in workplaces
• providing fast, easy and affordable family meal ideas
• encouraging families to be active together
• introducing solids to babies – best foods to try, when and how.

Non-printed resources

We also have many non-printed resources that are available as pdfs. These have been migrated to Healthy Eating and Exercise and Physical Activity topics on the HealthEd website where they will be available for download. 

Our work at the Health Promotion Directorate at Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora to reduce alcohol-related harm is comprehensive in its approach. It includes national marketing campaigns, resources, and tools to support legislative requirements, community action, and health sector agencies as well as alcohol-related advice and research.

In this section, you can find our alcohol resources that are available to order in hard copy.

Other alcohol resources that are available to download only can be found in the publications section of our Alcohol Resources website.

Our alcohol research reports can be found here.

For more information about our alcohol advice and work, or if you are looking for items no longer in print, please see alcohol.org.nz

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, alongside many other organisations, is working toward the Government’s goal that New Zealand be smokefree by 2025 – with a smoking prevalence of less than 5% of the population. Our contribution to this change focuses on key audiences – young adults and youth, with a particular emphasis on Māori.

For more information about what we do, please see: smokefree.org.nz

Additional smokefree resources are available at: https://www.smokefree.org.nz/resource-library