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  • Peer support workforce paper 2023

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    Our Peer support workforce paper 2023 shows the critical role of the peer workforce in enabling recovery, improving hope and in transforming the landscape of mental health and addiction services. The potential of this workforce is yet to be fully realised.

  • Service monitoring data summaries 2025

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    Two new data summaries provide updated data on access and trends for mental health and addiction services, with the second one focused on addiction specialist services. This is released as part of our regular monitoring role.

  • Covid-19 Insights Series - Media reporting of COVID-19

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    Media reporting of COVID-19 Our first report Media reporting of COVID-19 and mental health and wellbeing provides a scene-setter for the rest of the series.

  • Wāhanga tautuhi takirua / Co-define phase

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    Over April and May 2020, the Initial Commission sought a range of views to start developing an outcomes framework for mental health and wellbeing.

  • We asked what happened with our recommendations? Here’s what we found out

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    Systems change takes a team effort, and we will continue to provide leadership in advocacy for changes that will contribute to better and equitable mental health and wellbeing outcomes for all people in Aotearoa.

  • 2026 system performance monitoring report downloads

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    This report assesses how the mental health and addiction system is performing to improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes for tāngata whaiora and whānau. Progress is reported on six key system shifts that, taken together, would transform the mental health and addiction system.

  • Rural communities respond well to pandemic, despite challenges

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    This is according to today’s Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report,  The impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of rural communities in Aotearoa New Zealand .

  • Targeted vaccination approaches needed in the face of Omicron variant

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    There is evidence that some people who use specialist mental health services and addiction services are being left behind,” says Hayden Wano, Chair of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission.

  • Guide to language in He Ara Āwhina

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    Peer advocacy is when peers support tāngata whaiora or whānau to advocate for themselves in the mental health and addiction system or other wellbeing systems.

  • Kaupapa Māori services report

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    To ensure a more balanced allocation of resources, we call for an increase in funding for kaupapa Māori services to address inequities in the funding model. This includes an allocation of any new mental health and addictions investment allocated to kaupapa Māori services.