October is Mental Health Awareness Month—a chance to pause, connect, and explore simple ways to support our wellbeing. Community Link Upper Clutha has brought together a wide and varied programme of local activities, with something for every age, interest, and comfort level. Take a look, try something new, and discover what helps you feel connected and well.
What’s On Top – Have Your Say!
A message from the Path Wānaka Chair
Path Wānaka | Ara Ki Wānaka is a network of Agency Members – public agencies, youth services, health and community organisations – rather than a membership-based group for individuals.
Because those agencies retain their own independent governance, Path Wānaka does not speak with a single unified policy voice on every social issue or regulatory/legislative question.
Path Wānaka’s role is to facilitate dialogue, share information, collate data (e.g. via its Youth Survey), and host workshops or community conversations. The organisation emphasises supporting families to understand and navigate “adult-sized problems” faced by youth – parenting challenges, social pressures, mental health, substance use, online harm.
Randal Dobbs – Chair
08 May 2026
Have Your Say Today!
Could your relationship use a reset, refresh, or renewal?
Community Link Upper Clutha
Could your relationship use a reset, refresh, or renewal? The six-week Couples Workshop Series offers practical tools to help you communicate, navigate conflict, and reconnect as a team. Whether you’re facing challenges or simply want to strengthen an already healthy relationship, this supportive programme creates space to invest in each other. Because stronger couples help build stronger families and communities.
Struggling with heating or food costs?
Community Link Upper Clutha
Practical support is available, including food parcels, vouchers, and heating and energy assistance for you and your whānau.
LifeKeepers
Suicide Prevention Training Aotearoa
Free, in-person training for 18 years plus.
Wednesday 23 September – 8.30am to 5.00pm, Queenstown.
- Learn how to talk responsibly about suicide.
- Gain an understanding of the risk factors that contribute to someone being suicidal.
- Learn what to look for when someone may be at risk of suicide.
- Develop strategies for how to ask about suicide, respond with confidence, and engage different services and supports.
English Classes
Connection & Conversation for ESOL Families
Connect through culture and language in a supportive group environment. This course is for ESOL Families in the Wānaka community.
- Practise your conversation skills
- Improve listening
- Increase your vocabulary
Starts Term 3 – 8 July to 28 September, 7-9pm
Wānaka Community Hub
34 McDougall Street
Tutor: Lisa Swinburn
Youth Vaping Education - Train the trainer
The Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ is inviting expressions of interest for a free Youth Vaping Education – Train the Trainer workshop for educators, school staff, health and youth workers, iwi and community organisations, and anyone working with rangatahi. Participants will gain practical tools, resources and the confidence to deliver youth vaping education in their communities, with the opportunity to work towards an ARFNZ Facilitation Certificate and join an ongoing support network. Expressions of interest close 5.00pm, Friday 10 July, for the workshop on Thursday 20 August at the Wānaka Community Hub.
Help protect our rangatahi from illegal tobacco and vape sales
Think you’ve seen illegal tobacco sales or tobacco or vaping products being sold to someone under 18?
Report it to Health NZ and help protect our rangatahi while supporting a smokefree future for our communities.
By speaking up, you can make a real difference in your local community by making it harder for young people to access tobacco and vaping products.
World Smokefree May
World Smokefree May is a nationwide quit campaign backing whānau across Aotearoa to give up smoking this May. It culminates in World Smokefree Day on 31st May (World No Tobacco Day).
Aims to raise awareness of the smokefree kaupapa and encourage quit attempts through consistent national messaging and community action.
The Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Improving Alcohol Regulation) Amendment Bill
The Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Improving Regulation) Amendment Bill is currently before Parliament, and this is an important opportunity for communities and individuals to have their voices heard on the proposed changes. Submissions to the Justice Select Committee are now open and close on Thursday, May 14.