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Who we are

Health Action is a community-based health promotion Trust.  Health Action has been around since 1982 doing all sorts of health promotion work.  We've had contracts for: Smoking Sensation, Headstrong, Yata etc...

We are governed by a Board of Trustees that meets each month to set and monitor the policy direction for Health Action and review operational outputs and outcomes. Read the Staff profiles...,  &  Becoming a Trustee; which includes Board Member profiles.

We currently hold two contracts with the Ministry of Health;

Mental Health Promotion

 CAYAD - (Community Action Youth Alcohol and Drugs)


We also hold a further three contracts with the Nelson Marborough District Health Board;

Compass (Peer Support and Advocacy)

KOTUKU (Crisis Respite)

The Whitehouse (A Consumer run Community Centre)

Read about  our logo.

Our philosophies:
People's health and well-being is affected by all aspects of their everyday life. From our perspective, good health and well-being is created by caring for oneself and others, and by being able to have control over one's life.

Our society, culture and environment all have a crucial role to play in our health.

Health Action's Health Promotion work is guided by the five strands of the Ottawa Charter - here it is in brief: 

  1. Building healthy public policy - this is about trying to get policy makers to think about how their decisions will affect the health of people in the community.
  2. Creating supportive environments - this is about making the healthy choice the easy choice in the places where we live, love, work & play: supporting and enabling people to take care of themselves, each other, and their communities. 
  3. Strengthening community action - identifying problems and developing lasting solutions to address them, using strategies that encourage people in communities to collaboratively gain ownership and control of their health issues.
  4. Developing personal skills - of health promoters, policy makers and all individuals in the community.  We believe that giving good information about health and well-being increases people's control and ability to make informed decisions about their health.
  5. Reorienting health services - working alongside health, as well as social, political and economic sectors to bring about change, because people's health is affected by a whole range of factors.

We also think that it's really important to work closely with other organisations in a collaborative way, and to focus our energy on achieving long-term sustainable change in our community.



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