- About ALAC
ALAC’s vision and mission are outlined here with links to our corporate documents that describe how we are working to achieve our mission.
Corporate documents and reports can be downloaded from here.You will find information about ALAC and its structure. Council members and Senior management are profiled.
- Who We Are
- ALAC's Vision
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- Activities & Services
The Activities & Services section of the website has information about what ALAC is up to.
This is where you can find out what we are working on and how we achieve our goals.
- Priority Population Action Plans
- Campaigns & Communication Work
- Community Action
- Support for Requirements of Sale and Supply
- Policy Advice & Research
- Support for Health Sector Action
- Alcohol & You
Want to know if your drinking is okay? Or are you considering making some changes to your drinking but want to know more? Do you know exactly how big a standard drink is?
Play the online games in the section to find out. Find out all about your relationship with alcohol here...
- Is Your Drinking Okay?
- What's in a Standard Drink?
- Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Advice
- Your Body & Alcohol
- How to Access Treatment
- How to Be Safer
- The Law & You
- Drinking & Driving
- Legislation & Policy
Check out this section for NZ legislation and local strategies and polices relating to alcohol.
- Sale of Liquor Act
- Planning & Resource Management Act
- Alcoholism & Drug Addiction Act
- Alcohol Bans
- Alcohol Strategies & Policies
- Liquor Licences
- Liquor Licensing Authority Decisions
- Customs
- Advertising Alcohol
- Signage Resources for Vendors
- Host Responsibility
- Research & Resources
This is the ALAC research and resources section. This is where you can find alcohol statistics and researched topics.
ALAC has two blogs, a research blog and our general blog. Take a look at some of the interesting conversations that are happening here.
- Latest Resources
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- Research Publications
- Research Blog
- NZ Statistics
Latest Resources
ALAC's most recently developed resources are listed below.
Ease up on the drink: A how to guide for communities and organisations (AL631)
This is a booklet developed to help communities, agencies, organisations and groups to effectively use the Ease up on the drink campaign messages, advertising and resources in their projects, programmes and/or day-to-day work.
The resource includes some information and tips on how to create your own great marketing and communications to support alcohol-harm reduction projects that use messages that are different from Ease up.
The information in this resource is a basic guide based on the questions ALAC is most commonly asked.
Guidelines for the development of Alcohol Accords (AL604)
This booklet contains practical advice on setting up Alcohol Accords and how to maintain them. Aimed at promoting safer alcohol consumption and safer communities, Alcohol Accords encourage partnerships between key community stakeholders while continuing to complement existing Sale of Liquor Act 1989 regulatory mechanisms.
Click here to order this resources online.
Alcohol and your Health series (AL590 to AL595)
Alcohol and your Health is a series of six booklets. Four are for the drinkerA drinker is a person who self-reports they currently consume alcohol. experiencing problems, one is for those close to the drinker and one is for practitioners working in a brief intervention setting:
- Is your drinking okay? (pdf 1.4MB)
- Cutting down (pdf 2.4MB)
- Stopping drinking (pdf 1.4MB)
- Maintaining the change (pdf 1.4MB)
- Concerned about someone’s drinking? (pdf 1.4MB)
- Helping with problem drinking (pdf 2.3MB)
Click here to order these resources online.
Drinking and your baby (AL606 to AL612)
Pamphlets with advice about not drinking while pregnant or breastfeeding. Available in eight languages.
- Drinking & Your Baby - Māori and English (pdf 2.6MB)
- Drinking & Your Baby - Cook Island (pdf 883KB)
- Drinking & Your Baby - Fijian (pdf 975KB)
- Drinking & Your Baby - Niuean (pdf 2.4MB)
- Drinking & Your Baby - Samoan (pdf 1.8MB)
- Drinking & Your Baby - Tokelauan (pdf 1.3MB)
- Drinking & Your Baby - Tongan (pdf 1.8MB)
Click here to order these resources online.
Posters and stickers for licensed premises and vehicles (AL616 to AL628)
A new series of posters and sticker for liquor outlets and public transport. Available in a variety of sizes.
Click here to order these resources online.
Guidelines for Managing Alcohol at Large Events (AL597)
This updated Guidelines for Managing Alcohol at Large Events reflects best-practice models and provides additional resources to ensure national consistency in its use. It supplements other existing documents such as the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management’s Safety Planning Guidelines for Events, and complements ALAC’s Intoxication Monitoring and Enforcement Guidelines, Controlled Purchase Operation Guidelines, National Protocol on Alcohol Promotions and Host Responsibility Guidelines for Licensed Premises. Below is a template to help you plan your event.
Alcohol Management Plan Template
Click on the image to download the Alcohol Management Plan Template as a word document.
(to be used in conjunction with Guidelines for Managing Alcohol at Large Events)
Click here to order these resources online.
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