Why did we change from the name "Healthy Start Workforce Project"?
The Healthy Start Workforce Project has been operating for over six years now and we are updating the name and description to better reflect the service we provide to health practitioners, and our commitment to honoring the Treaty of Waitangi and partnership.
Meaning behind the logo design
The DNA and helix image incorporates a simple koru graphic, demonstrating the kaupapa of early life science and education. The koru symbolises new life and new beginnings - which refers to our focus on the first 1,000 days of a child’s life. A unique period of opportunity when the foundations of optimum health, growth, and neurodevelopment across the lifespan are established. Also a critical time in the development of chronic disease later in life.
The line in logo - apart from using this as visual divider, the line refers to genealogy, whakapapa and the process of tracing, mapping our ancestral ties. The round circle at the end of the line, is a reference to genetic markers within sequences. Genetics plays a huge role in our physiological and biological makeup alongside our lifestyle choices, in the development and progression of chronic diseases.