Growing collective wellbeing, accelerating change in South Auckland

Community-led solutions shaping better conditions for whānau and aiga Across South Auckland, whānau and aiga are supporting one another, keeping culture strong and finding ways to help their communities thrive. In churches, marae, schools and neighbourhoods, people hold knowledge and solutions that can shape a healthier future. Healthy Families South Auckland at The Cause Collective […]

He Oranga Hou, He Oranga Whakapapa partners come under one roof

This month, Healthy Families | The Cause Collective brought together Māngere Health Centre, Rongoā practitioners from Te Rangiora Rongoā, and Papatūānuku Marae for the first time, laying the foundation for a new way of caring for whānau in South Auckland. Some of the most important moments in systems change never show up on a dashboard. […]

Kōrero Mai goes to school: when the card asks the question, not the adult

VisionWest School Social Workers with Healthy Families South Auckland, coming together to kick off the Kōrero Mai school pilot. Back row (left to right): Tevita Tavake, Zane Pieterse, Julia Root, Maki BrownSecond row: Bonny Alaia, Cecilia Carcano, Iunisi Efoti, Corrine Dove, Faalenuu Lolo-LeoThird row: Tracey WalkerFront: Veranika Seiuli, Josh Gonzales. Kōrero Mai was built for the […]

From Rugby League Clubs to Thriving Community Hubs

Leasiosiofa’asisina Rachel Enosa, CEO of The Cause Collective, and Duane Mann, CEO of Auckland Rugby League sign the MOU with their teams supporting. For Healthy Families South Auckland, supporting healthier communities is not just about creating programmes, it is about strengthening the places, relationships and systems that shape everyday life. Our ongoing partnership with Auckland […]

Start from where you are

You don’t need a gym membership. You don’t need a sport. You don’t need to be ready. The only place to start is where you already are, and the letterbox is far enough. South Auckland has gyms. It has swimming pools, parks, courts and sports clubs. If you know where to look, the options are […]

Growing new traditions for healthier futures

In South Auckland, a group of families are beginning something new. Not just a programme, but the start of new traditions that could shape the health of generations to come. We are currently in week one of testing a co-designed prototype created by participants who are living with type 2 diabetes, are pre-diabetic, or are […]

When silence is inherited: rethinking mental health through a whanau lens

In South Auckland, there’s a quiet truth sitting in many of our homes. It’s not always loud. It doesn’t always show up in crisis. But it lives in the spaces between our conversations or more honestly, the lack of them. For many of us, the way we learned to communicate was shaped long before we […]

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, […]