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Positive progress with targets but challenges remain for young people
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NewsThe latest mental health and addiction target factsheets for quarter two 2025/26 can be found on the Health NZ | Te Whatu Ora website .
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Briefings to Incoming Ministers (BIMs) publicly released
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NewsAlongside these, we highlight a few actions that can be taken immediately: introducing the Member’s Bill Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) (Improving Mental Health Outcomes) Amendment Bill as a Government Bill, to include a mental health and wellbeing strategy in the Act. including a mental health target in
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Chief Executive Karen Orsborn opinion piece on coercive practices
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NewsEnding coercion and transforming our mental health and addiction system is important for the mental health and wellbeing of everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Te Hiringa Mahara office hours webinar, July 2026
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NewsOn 24 June 2026, Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission launched a new roadmap calling for faster, more focused action to improve mental health, addiction and wellbeing outcomes in Aotearoa New Zealand. This webinar is your opportunity to learn about this.
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Targeted vaccination approaches needed in the face of Omicron variant
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NewsAs New Zealand faces community transmission of the Omicron variant, too many people who experience mental distress or addictions remain unvaccinated. The total New Zealand vaccination rates are now very high, with over one million people boosted and 93% of the eligible population double vaccinated.
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Effectively addressing rising distress in rangatahi and young people
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NewsNew evidence shows timely, lower-cost support can stop distress escalating, lift wellbeing and ease pressure on an overstretched system. The 2024/25 New Zealand Health Survey found 1 in 5 of 15–24-year-olds experienced high to very high psychological distress.
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What works to reduce harm from alcohol and other drugs
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NewsThere have been internationally recognised and groundbreaking harm reduction initiatives introduced in Aotearoa New Zealand but there is potential to do much more. The need for action was identified in He Ara Oranga, the 2018 inquiry into mental health and addiction.
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The voices of young people matter; this youth week and every week thereafter
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NewsThat is why it is important to see climate change and mental health as part of the same story, not two separate ones.
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Te Hiringa Mahara to continue to advocate for young people after Oranga Tamariki Bill passes third reading
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News“This work will add weight to our belief that the voices and knowledge of young people should be central to the design of systems that determine their wellbeing, as we work towards long-term transformation of mental health, addiction and wellbeing systems in Aotearoa New Zealand.”
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Te Huringa Tuarua 2023 webinar series
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NewsAnei te whānui ake o ngā whakamāramatanga e whai ake nei. We are delighted to announce that we will be holding a series of webinars where we will share key findings as well as our calls to action from our recent mental health and addiction service monitoring reports.