CAYAD
Community Action Youth and Drugs (CAYAD) is a Te Whatu Ora National-funded programme to reduce the harm young people experience from alcohol and other drugs. We support youth organisations, Marae, community centres, sports club and schools to collaborate and create lasting changes in their environment that will promote wellbeing and reduce harms related to alcohol and other drugs.
Outcomes We Strive For
Outcomes We Strive For
Increased informed community discussion and debate about issues related to alcohol and other drugs
We share information in a variety of ways, to enable young people to make informed choices that lead to healthier outcomes.
Effective policies and practices to reduce alcohol and other drug-related harm
Whole School Project
CAYAD supports schools to take a whole school approach to student wellbeing that prepares students for a world where alcohol and other drugs exist. We engage with schools to incorporate the Tūturu framework for students’ wellbeing.
Alcohol Sale, Supply & Consumption Guidelines For Schools
Policy Development in Local Youth Organisations
We support youth-related organisations to write a new drug policy or review existing ones. Our toolkit More Than Just a Policy Guidelines and Workbook was included as one of six key resources in the Ministry of Education’s July 2016. It has 3 components:
Making Submissions
We make submissions to most local and national drug-related law changes. Let us know if you want to find out more about making drug-related submissions to Council or Government.
Increased local capacity to support youth education, employment and recreation
If you are a provider of youth education/recreation or training please let us know if your staff have training needs to support young people to keep drug-related harm to a minimum.
Community Action Fund (CAF)
Have a project in mind? Need some funding?
CAYAD administers a grant to support projects in the community aimed at reducing alcohol and other drugs - related harm with a positive youth development focus.
CAF provides funding to local communities to support them in achieving their aspirations in preventing and reducing AOD - related harms in their community.
To apply, download the CAF application form, fill it out and email it to marcelo@healthaction.org.nz
Reduced supply of alcohol and other drugs to young people
Advocating for Responsible Alcohol Sales
We support communities to have a say about alcohol licensing in their local area.
You can find a complete guide on how to object to an alcohol licensing application through this link.
Reducing Alcohol Supply
We inform parents and peers/family members who might be supplying alcohol or other drugs to under 18 year olds of their legal and social responsibilities, and the impacts of alcohol on young people that might cause people to think twice and choose not to give alcohol to minors.
The Plan project to reduce supply of alcohol by parents and delay teen drinking. 2 key aims of The Plan:
Delay supply of alcohol to under-18s;
Motivate families to discuss and plan how to deal with alcohol
Parent Discussion Evenings
We also try to improve networks between parents, by holding parent discussion evenings which focus on risk management, boundary setting, communication with young people, and positive role modelling to reduce alcohol or other drug-related harm. Let us know if you would like us to co-create and facilitate a discussion evening for your parent group.
Please contact us if you would like more information about our CAYAD work.
Email: marcelo@healthaction.org.nz
Phone number: (03) 548 2798 ext 3
