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Published: 12 September, 2023

In our webinar series, we focused on: Lived experiences of Compulsory Community Treatment Orders under the Mental Health Act 1992 webinar When: 12:00pm-12:45pm Thursday, 28 September 2023 Pathway for peer support to transform the mental health and addiction workforce webinar When: 12:00pm-12:45pm Thursday

Published: 25 July, 2023

   Prior to joining Te Hiringa Mahara board Jemaima contributed to the mental wellbeing of Aotearoa through her work with the Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction in 2018, and the subsequent ground-breaking He Ara Oranga report.

Published: 29 May, 2025

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission is concerned that people may not be able to access support when they need it,” said Sonya Russell, Director Mental Health and Addiction System Leadership.

Published: 5 June, 2024

  There are important questions about why there is a disconnect between an increasing need for mental health and addiction support and a decrease in people accessing specialist services.

Published: 29 August, 2023

and Treatment) Act 1992 Expanding access and choice to existing primary mental health and addiction services for people with mild to moderate mental health and addictions needs.

Published: 9 April, 2026

The summary set and dashboard are part of our suite of monitoring products and provide curated information on mental health and wellbeing for use by interested stakeholders and complements our other reporting.

Published: 30 June, 2022

He Ara Āwhina describes what an ideal mental health and addiction system looks like. This will be used to assess, monitor, and advocate for improvements to the mental health and addiction system of Aotearoa, including services.

Published: 1 December, 2021

We are currently in the important stage of mahi (work) to develop the methods and measures for how we will monitor and assess the mental health and addiction system.

Published: 1 October, 2020

This diverse group of experts shared their expertise and perspectives and guided the co-design of the vision of what a system of services, support, and approaches should look like for people and whānau who experience mental distress, substance use harm, or gambling harm (or a combination of these).

Published: 7 August, 2025

The resulting strategy sets out how we work and what we will deliver.  We held an an office hours session with our Board chair Hayden Wano, and Chief Executive, Karen Orsborn.