Strengthening community action on alcohol

The original Strengthening Community Action on Alcohol was published in 2002. This revised edition by Carmen Collie was published in 2007 by the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand (ALAC). ALAC merged with the Health Sponsorship Council to become the Health Promotion Agency in 2012. HPA later became part of Health New Zealand.

This item is widely disseminated within New Zealand, used as a training manual for several hundred community workers, used as a text within tertiary institutions, and has been read by many a new community worker and experienced practitioner; and acknowledged internationally.

This revised edition of Strengthening Community Action on Alcohol has eight chapters that tell the story of alcohol in New Zealand and create a pathway for coordinated action. It brings together much of the work already undertaken to reduce alcohol-related harm in New Zealand and looks at the roles we each have to play, whether we are:

• community workers at the coalface with young people, families and those already experiencing alcohol-related harm
• public health practitioners working to change the systems and structures that support intoxication
• local government representatives with a role in promoting our communities’ social, economic, environmental and cultural wellbeing
• police representatives dealing with liquor licensing plus alcohol-fuelled disorders, assaults, criminal damage, family violence, alcohol-related road crashes and more.

It also provides common direction and frameworks for working together and is peppered with case studies from flax-roots community action throughout the country – reflecting some of the diverse approaches used to reduce the harms associated with intoxication.

The files include the following chapters and contents:

Introduction
This section lists out the contents of this resource, namely: The culture of drinking in New Zealand, National policy and strategy, Frameworks for reducing alcohol-related harm, Community, Getting started, Supply Control, Demand Reduction and Problem Limitation.

Chapter 1: The culture of drinking in New Zealand
A global picture
The culture of drinking in New Zealand
A history of liquor laws in New Zealand
Māori and alcohol
Pacific peoples in New Zealand
Young people and alcohol
Changing the drinking culture
How will we do it?
Changing the drinking culture – developing a policy approach

Chapter 2: National policy and strategy
The National Drug Policy
The National Alcohol Strategy
Alcohol Advisory Council Strategic Direction 2007–2012
The Crime Reduction Strategy
The Safer Communities: Action Plan to Reduce Community Violence and Sexual Violence
Te Rito: The New Zealand Family Violence Prevention Strategy
The New Zealand Police Alcohol Action Plan
He Korowai Oranga: Mäori Health Strategy
The Pacific Health and Disability Action Plan
The Youth Development Strategy Aotearoa
Te Tāhuhu: Improving Mental Health 2005–2015
The New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy
Road Safety to 2010

Chapter 3: Frameworks for reducing alcohol-related harm
The Treaty of Waitangi
Determinants of health
Reducing inequalities
Harm minimisation
Supply control, demand reduction and problem limitation
Health promotion
The Ottawa Charter
Advances in health promotion
Health promotion and the Treaty of Waitangi
TUHA-NZ: A Treaty understanding of health in Aotearoa
The Spectrum of Prevention
Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
The prevention paradoxes
Te Whare Tapa Whā
Te Pae Māhutonga
Te Wheke
Pacific models of health and wellbeing

Chapter 4: Community
Community commitment to reducing alcohol-related harm
The role of local government
The diverse roles of health
The role of ‘community’
Community engagement
Community development
Community action
Social marketing
Community readiness
Working with communities
Values and ethics
Working with Māori communities
Working with Pacific communities
Working with new migrant communities
Working with Asian communities
Working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities
Working with young people

Chapter 5: Getting started
Getting Started
Step 1: Start here
Step 2: Establish networks
Step 3: Gather information
Step 4: Build evaluation into your programme
Step 5: Develop an action plan
Step 6: Take action
Step 7: Review the process
Skills and tools
Advocacy
Writing a submission
Presenting a submission
Meeting a Member of Parliament
Contributing to policy development
Strategic planning
Facilitation
Presentation skills
Training sessions
Focus groups
Looking after yourself
Supervision for community workers
Ensuring sustainability

Chapter 6: Supply control
Supply control strategies
Supply control legislation
The Sale of Liquor Act 1989
The Resource Management Act 1991
Other relevant legislation
Host Responsibility
Licensed environments
The six key concepts of Host Responsibility
Developing a Host Responsibility policy
Industry training and standards
Non-licensed environments
Public events
Host Responsibility and Mäori communities
Safe alcohol use in Pacific communities
Enforcement and compliance
Administering the Sale of Liquor Act
Monitoring intoxication
Controlled purchase operations (CPOs)
Alco-Link
Alcohol accords
Liquor bans
Community support for supply control
Youth Access to Alcohol (YATA)
Sports Club Accreditation Project
Te Ara Poka Tika: Project Walkthrough
Community Action on Youth and Drugs

Chapter 7: Demand reduction
Demand reduction
Marketing change
Changing the way New Zealanders drink
The drink-driving campaign
Local campaigns
THINK… consequences
Get into it, not out of it
Public information
What is alcohol?
The effects of alcohol on the body
The social costs of alcohol-related harm
Patterns of drinking
Standard drinks
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Working with the media
Relationships with the media
Letters to the editor
Media releases
Media interviews
Media launches and events
Monitoring the media

Chapter 8: Problem limitation
Problem limitation
Early intervention
Alcohol Drug Helpline
Early intervention settings
School interventions
Workplace interventions
Hospital interventions
Justice system interventions
Community interventions

Glossary
Consists of a Māori Glossary