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Published: 25 February, 2026

We’ve put the key mental health and addiction findings from the NZ Health Survey 2024/2025 into an easy-to-read summary.

Published: 10 March, 2026

An article outlining what needs to be done to promote online safety for rangatahi and young people.

Published: 24 March, 2026

This short paper captures outcome of a think tank held in August 2025 to explore the future roles of primary and community care play in supporting people with mental health and substance use needs.

Published: 16 June, 2022

In early June we provided an article on coercive practices to the New Zealand Herald for consideration as part of its Great Minds campaign on mental health.

Published: 8 August, 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara has placed the key mental health and addiction findings from the NZ Health Survey 2023/2024 into one, easy to read summary.

Published: 1 October, 2020

We created a framework called He Ara Āwhina, which means pathways to support. He Ara Āwhina was published 30 June 2022 and describes what an ideal mental health and addiction system looks like. The process for developing this framework is described on this page.

Published: 9 April, 2025

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Published: 18 February, 2025

Fewer people accessed specialist mental health and addiction services in the year from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024 than in previous years.

Published: 23 October, 2024

There is huge potential for more peer-led, community-based and Kaupapa Māori, services to support people experiencing acute distress. This article summaries findings form our Acute options for mental health care insights paper, published in August 2024.

Published: 30 September, 2024

Funding of a new Child and Youth Mental Health and Addiction Prevalence survey was welcomed by Te Hiringa Mahara. The survey is keeping with a recommendation we made to first survey rangatahi and young people, before extending a prevalence study to the wider population.