Let's talk about gambling harm and young people
Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2025 (1st to 7th September) is an opportunity to encourage kōrero about what gambling harm is and how to avoid or minimise it. Openly saying “Let’s talk about gambling harm” creates a supportive environment for safe conversations among peers, with trusted whānau or with confidential professional assistance.
This year's campaign aims to raise awareness and provide education for parents, caregivers, trusted adults, and whānau. The campaign highlights what is happening all around for young people and encourages the adults in their lives to watch for warning signs.
Safer Gambling Aotearoa offers information and support if parents or whānau chose to talk with their young people about gambling harm.
Find out more about gambling and young people (Safer Gambling Aotearoa).
Gambling Harm Awareness Week is an annual opportunity for the preventing and minimising gambling harm sector to focus on raising awareness of gambling harms.
Find out more about Gambling Harm Awareness Week, including downloadable resources.
Welcome to Waka Toa Ora
Waka Toa Ora is a Canterbury DHB-led inter-sectoral collaborative partnership in the Canterbury region. The partnership is based on the WHO Healthy Cities model, and was previously known as Healthy Christchurch.
The key theme of initiative is that all sectors and groups have a role to play in creating a healthy Canterbury, whatever their specific focus (recreation, employment, youth, environmental enhancement, transport, housing or another aspect of health or wellbeing).
This inter-sectoral initiative fosters collaboration between organisations who have signed the Waka Toa Ora Charter.
Read the Waka Toa Ora Charter - updated July 2019.
The new name Waka Toa Ora communicates that we are all in a waka together. We are rowing in the same direction and navigating the many dimensions of wellbeing (physical, social, spiritual, and mental and emotional — hau ora, wai ora, mauri ora, toi ora). We are stronger navigating the regional landscape together.
There are currently over 200 charter signatories to the Waka Toa Ora Charter, including government agencies, businesses, voluntary sector groups, networks and residents’ associations. The organisations involved reflect a diverse focus and cover many aspects of health and wellbeing.
