The Hāpai National Tobacco Control Advocacy Service facilitates engagement between a wide range of policy makers, decision makers/influencers that may include Parliamentary Committees, the Ministry of Health, District Health Boards, NGOs, Primary Health Organisations, corporate decision makers, Media, Stop Smoking Service Providers, Council, Māori and Pacific Providers, iwi, local and national businesses, research and academic institutions, territorial local authorities, Crown agencies and communities to progress Smokefree 2025. Our Tobacco Control Advocacy service utilises relationships and key influencers to spur increased ownership, and a positive view of Smokefree 2025, it identifies, delivers and promotes effective public health and advocacy interventions that will create and strengthen smokefree policies. Our role is also to increase public and media understanding of what will get us to 2025. The four key objectives of all Hāpai tobacco control advocacy activities are: To reduce smoking initiation To increase quitting To reduce the social, economic and health harms of tobacco To reduce inequalities Hāpai Te Hauora produce a fortnightly e-newsletter containing updates on Tobacco Control locally, regionally, nationally and internationally, to subscribe click here.

We provide the information and support to talk about gambling related harm. We also provide opportunities for Māori communities to speak out on their views about this kaupapa. Māori communities in return, provide the content that helps to make both regional and community, policies and strategies. These policies and strategies inform the way our city evolves and what changes it needs to make to better support the way Māori communities live, play and work within it. Most importantly though, we make sure it is the vision of the whānau we connect with that underpins the mahi we carry out through the Preventing Gambling Harm kaupapa here at Hāpai. Preventing gambling related harm is an objective across the wider population of Māori within Auckland, but the issues of significance they face as unique Māori communities inform the way in which they choose to address those harms. Understanding the harms associated to gambling is varied across our population, also enables us to understand the way we address those harms can be just as dynamic. At Hapai we are constantly forming new relationships, exploring new ideas and developing new concepts for our projects. Creating diversity ensures a growing number of Māori communities have the connection and resources to achieve their optimal wellbeing as is the original purpose of Hāpai - ‘oranga tangata, oranga whenua’ We have three major themes our work is done within: Awareness raising in communities allows us to share the knowledge of how the region is addressing gambling related harm. This is also an opportunity to provide a space for our whānau to promote their own views to both the community and the wider Auckland network. This is always done through kanohi ki te kanohi. Supporting communities to leverage their strengths. Finding opportunities to connect to each other and develop their own kete with tools, insight and relationships. We appreciate communities have a depth of knowledge. Our role is to become/teach/source/learn whatever it is that supports their vision for increased wellbeing through preventing gambling harm. Policy development both on a local and regional level helps design an environment that enhances community wellbeing. To that end, the uptake of these policies must to something that empowers communities to succeed. We build relationships with funders and local authorities to ensure our communities ideas are interwoven throughout a range of activities.

The role of the National Coordination Service enables an opportunity for Māori leadership in the field of gambling harm minimisation. A unique position that provides certain workforce development and research perspectives among those tasked with preventing and minimising gambling harm throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. We seek to increase the prioritisation of what happens "when you get it right for Māori" and that is "you get it right for everyone". Key connections in Addiction Treatment, Public Health, Research, and Evaluation are critical elements in this work and as such work with a wide range of mental health and addictions services and other likeminded organisations to address the harm caused by gambling. This service works in collaboration with the Ministry of Health to ensure a consistent and coordinated approach for all gambling service providers across Aotearoa, both clinical and public health, are provided with the adequate support to provide high-quality services to the communities they serve.

Te Kākano is tasked with providing credible, relevant and useful Workforce Development programmes to the Gambling Harm Ministration Public Health Workforce. The range of resources available to the sector includes the annual training, Prezi’s and a few case studies. Alongside these resources are the handbooks: Public Health 101, New Kaimahi Induction, Programme Planning and Evaluation, a Writing Guide and a Tertiary Education Guide. Te Kākano aims to provide a range of innovative and engaging platforms that support the adoption of a robust Public Health Framework with the Gambling Harm Minimisation Workforce. This service works alongside the other infrastructure services for the Gambling Sector, including the National Coordination Service, Health Promotion Agency and the clinical training provider, Abacus.

Hāpai Te Hauora provide Māori Public Health Leadership and Strategic advice to a number of services across Tamaki Makaurau, working across the public health issues of Alcohol and Other Drugs, Tobacco Control and Nutrition and Physical Activity. As an Iwi and Maataa Waka mandated organisation we provide community-driven public health services through our owner organisations, Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua, Raukura Hauora o Tainui and Te Whānau o Waipareira Trust, known by the name of Whānau Whanui. Whānau Whanui (Māori Public Health) is a regional public health collective who work as the delivery arm for Hāpai. Through fortnightly meetings, the collective together advances public health and continues the legacy of our tupuna by creating environments in which whānau and communities thrive in the areas of: tihei mauri ora (reducing tobacco use), kia maarie (reducing drug and alcohol use), and whai ao (improving nutrition & exercise).

The National SUDI Prevention Coordination Service (SPCS) is a key part of the wider National SUDI Prevention Programme (NSPP). The role of Hāpai for the SPCS will be to provide leadership, oversight, monitoring, guidance, and resources to both the four Regional SUDI Coordinators and 20 DHBs to ensure that: Regional initiatives funded and supported by DHBs are consistent with current and emerging scientific evidence about how to most effectively reduce the incidence of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infants DHBs and maternal and child service providers are guided by high quality, evidence-based expertise about how to improve the quality, availability, and consistency of SUDI Prevention messaging and interventions SUDI prevention messaging is nationally consistent and effective; Risk assessment is nationally consistent There is a demonstrable improvement in parental SUDI prevention health literacy and infant care practice, and infant exposure to SUDI risk is reduced. The development and implementation of the SPCS are centered around the following key components: Provider planning and finalisation of service requirements Support and coordination of regional SUDI prevention activities National-level improvement activities Support to explore future improvement options Strategic planning, performance evaluation, and monitoring