Celebrating a decade of partnership: Healthy Families South Auckland & AUT

With the Healthy Families South Auckland and AUT partnership reaching a decade milestone in 2026, Lead Systems Innovator Julio Bin and Senior Lecturer Lisa McEwan reflect on a successful 2025 programme, why this partnership is important and what opportunities lie ahead. 2025 highlights and the Good Food Journal project As Healthy Families South Auckland (HFSA) […]

Korero Mai closing the communication gaps in our homes 

Kōrero Mai began at the grassroots with whānau not as a product, but as a response to what parents and rangatahi in South Auckland told us they needed: safer, more honest ways to talk with each other, says Systems Innovator, Veranika Seiuli from Healthy Families South Auckland The Cause Collective (HFSA).    “Through wānanga and co-design, whānau shared the real barriers they face, role […]

Healthy Families South Auckland – 2025 Year in Review 

Reconnecting people, purpose and prevention  As 2025 draws to a close, Healthy Families South Auckland – The Cause Collective, reflects on a year defined by connection, to each other, to our whakapapa, and to the systems that shape our everyday wellbeing. Across every strand of our work, from Oranga Whakapapa to Mental Health & Wellbeing, Food Systems and Movement & Sport, […]

ImpactLab report highlights social value of Whenua to Whenua programme

A new report from ImpactLab provides comprehensive insights into the social impact of one of the initiatives created and implemented by the Food Hub Collective, an organisation supported by Healthy Families South Auckland. The GoodMeasure Foundations and Forecast Report focuses on the Food Hub Collective’s Whenua to Whenua experiential learning programme, a series of initiatives […]

Good healthy kai is not waste 

Tons of fish products are being saved from waste through Kai Ika, an initiative spearheaded by local South Auckland community kaitiaki, Papatūānuku Kokiri Marae and Legasea. These initiatives are examples of partnerships that show what sustainable systems change can look like.   Legasea , a nonprofit organisation dedicated to restoring the abundance, biodiversity and health of […]

Front row view to groundbreaking systems change in the heart of South Auckland 

Last month a new initiative that aims to bring great tasting, healthy and culturally rich kai directly to the communities, was launched in the heart of South Auckland in the form of “Mā ngā hua, Ka Ora”; a shared food trailer created by the people, for the people.  Led by local community driven champions, Papatūānuku […]

Local Government: The critical connection to a healthier and happier Auckland

In the upcoming local elections, Aucklanders will decide who will sit at the decision-making table of Auckland Council and across the city’s 21 local boards for the next three years. While national politics often gets the spotlight, it’s local government that shapes many of the day-to-day realities that affect community wellbeing. From the safety of […]

On a mission to get South Auckland to Move Well to Feel Well

We’re on a mission to get 10,000 South Aucklanders engaged in regular physical activity by June 30, 2026.    To do this, we’re calling on you, your whanau, your communities, your mahi, to join our movement and get fit, get active, and make it a normal and enjoyable part of your day.    Healthy Families South Auckland […]