The document outlines the aims and approach of Healthy Families New Zealand, an initiative to improve population health. The initiative seeks to (1) prevent chronic disease by promoting healthy choices, physical activity, and healthy weights; (2) encourage communities to live healthier lives; and (3) reach about a quarter of New Zealand's population. It will establish a workforce of about 75 staff and invest $10 million annually, mostly in staffing. Ten locations across New Zealand will implement the initiative through community leadership and multi-sector engagement to drive sustainable healthy changes.

1. Aims:
• To improve people’s health where they live, learn,
work and play in order to prevent chronic disease
• To encourage and enable communities to live
healthier lives, by:
o making good food choices
o being physically active
o sustaining a healthy weight
o being smoke-free and
o moderating alcohol consumption

2. • 10 locations across NZ selected
• Potential reach of a quarter of the population of New Zealand
• $10M annual investment– 80% on workforce, 20% on Action
Budget
• Workforce of approximately 75 full-time staff being
established
• Strong focus on enabling leadership across organisations,
sectors, and communities to make sustainable healthy change

3. Far North District
Te Runanga o Te Rarawa
Manukau Ward
Tāmaki Healthy Families Alliance
Manurewa-Papakura Ward
Tāmaki Healthy Families Alliance
Rotorua District
Te Arawa Whānau Ora &
Kowhai Health Associates
East Cape
Hauiti Hauora
Horouta Whanaunga
Whanganui District
Te Oranganui
Lower Hutt City
Hutt City Council
Spreydon-Heathcote Ward
Pacific Trust Canterbury
Invercargill City
Sport Southland
Healthy Families
Communities
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Waitakare Ward
Sport Waitakare
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4. The Healthy Families NZ Model

5. Overcoming Obesity: An initial economic analysis
“A systemic, sustained portfolio of initiatives, delivered at scale, is
needed to address the health burden…
Imperative:
Deploy as many interventions as possible at scale and delivered
effectively by the full range of sectors in society
No individual sectors in society…can address obesity on their own.
Capturing the full potential impact requires engagement from as many sectors
as possible
Experiment with solutions and don’t wait for the perfect proof of what
works
…A combination of top-down corporate and government interventions
with bottom-up community-led ones is required to change
public-health outcomes” McKinsey Global Institute – November 2014

6. Critical building blocks of a prevention system
• Dedicated, reflective and skilled workforce
• Building relationships with prevention partners
across the system
• Capturing and feeding back knowledge and data
• Allocating resources to effect sustainable change
• Building leadership for prevention across the
whole community

7. 4. What does it look like?
Healthy Eating
Advisory Service
Achievement Program –
Frameworks and
benchmarks for health
promotion
Centre of Excellence in
Intervention and Prevention
Science (CEIPS)
Minister and
Mayors Network
Victorian Healthy Eating
Enterprise – Creating a
vibrant healthy eating
culture
Networks of practice
Better Health Channel
redevelopment
Leadership for
Prevention Strategy
Healthy Together Exchange
Healthy Together Patrons
Healthy Food Charter
Health promotion policy for
children and young people
Fresh Food Recovery
Healthy Food Connect
Health Champions
Local social marketing
campaigns
Healthy Living
Programs and Strategies
Jamie’s Ministry
of Food in Victoria
Localised websites
Prevention teams
Local leadership networks
Healthy Eating
Advisory Service
Achievement Program
Healthy Living
Programs and Strategies
Business and industry
leadership network
Achievement Program
Healthy Eating and Food
Literacy in Secondary Schools
Healthy Eating
Advisory Service
Life!
Statewide social
marketing campaigns
14
Local government
areas
520
Schools
938
Early childhood
services
4,409
Workplaces
Over 1.3m
Victorians
Healthy Together Communities

10. Achievement Program: HTV quality framework

11. Healthy Families NZ – potential reach
Healthy Families Manukau
– potential reach
Manukau
65
Schools
As at July 2014
158
Early
Childhood
Services
As at July 2014
681
Workplaces*
*Over 20 employees
Population of
over
166,220
in Manukau
2012 data
3182

12. Healthy Families NZ – potential reach
Healthy Families Manurewa-Papakura
– potential reach
Manurewa-Papakura
55
Schools
As at July 2014
132
Early
Childhood
Services
As at July 2014
368
Workplaces*
*Over 20 employees
Population of
over
136,360
in Manurewa-
Papakura
2012 data
3182