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Published: 1 February, 2024

Alongside 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

Published: 4 November, 2025

People need a real choice of safe and welcoming options for both mental health and substance use crises. This must be culturally safe, trauma-informed and uphold human rights wherever people live in Aotearoa New Zealand.   

Published: 16 June, 2022

Ending coercion and transforming our mental health and addiction system is important for the mental health and wellbeing of everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Published: 24 June, 2026

On 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.

Published: 14 September, 2026

Eight years after a suite of recommendations in He Ara Oranga were made to improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes in Aotearoa New Zealand, incoming Chair Dr Barbara Disley assesses where things have progressed, and where there is more work to do.

Published: 5 June, 2024

The purpose of this report is to monitor mental health and addiction services over the five-year period from July 2018 to June 2023. The report focuses on access to services and options available.

Published: 27 January, 2022

As 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.

Published: 16 June, 2026

into the Harm Young New Zealanders Encounter Online, July 2025 pdf, 1.9 MB Download Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy - Advice, June 2025 pdf, 864 KB Download Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy - Advice, May 2025 pdf, 185 KB Download 2024 submissions: Downloads Mental Health Bill submission, December

Published: 30 April, 2026

New 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.

Published: 19 August, 2026

There 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.