The original Strengthening Community Action on Alcohol was published in 2002. Since then it has been widely disseminated within New Zealand; used as a training manual for several hundred community workers; used as a text within tertiary institutions; 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.

Click on the links below to open/download the Chapters you wish to read.