Huihiko

Welcome to Huihiko

Huihiko is a community-led early intervention initiative designed to reduce suicide risk by enabling people to safely act on concern before crisis occurs.

Research consistently shows that most people who die by suicide display warning signs in the weeks and months beforehand, but those signs are often scattered across whānau, friends, workplaces, and community settings. Huihiko addresses this gap by providing a privacy-safe way for community members to share non-identifying wellbeing concerns and by translating those collective signals into early outreach and support.

Rather than focusing on individuals in crisis, Huihiko strengthens the protective capacity of the whole community. It empowers everyday people to contribute to prevention in a responsible, non-intrusive way, and supports local responders to engage early, when intervention is most effective.

The initiative is designed to be culturally adaptable, community-owned, and scalable across urban and rural settings in Aotearoa, with strong alignment to prevention-first public health approaches and Māori models of collective care.

Huihiko’s goal is simple:
to transform small acts of concern into timely support — reducing harm, strengthening wellbeing, and helping communities look after one another before tragedy occurs.