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  • Access and choice mental health programme stacks up

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      At the five- year mark, the Access and Choice Programme has proved to be a valuable addition to the mental health, addiction and wellbeing support services available to people throughout the country. Today Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission released a report that

  • Covid-19 Insights Series - Wellbeing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

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    exacerbated and amplified many existing inequities in mental health and wellbeing outcomes, and in accessing services and supports. In the face of challenges presented by the pandemic, iwi, hapū, and whānau Māori exercised rangatiratanga, providing practical support for themselves and others through the

  • Expert Advisory Group

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    -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). The group included a Māori EAG which supported the development of a te ao Māori perspective

  • Access and choice for mental health and addiction services encouraging, but workforce challenges remain

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    the next two years to meet expected population targets and will require further increases in workforce. To ensure the successful long-term transformation of mental health, addiction and wellbeing services in Aotearoa, we call for a comprehensive strategy and roadmap that will provide additional

  • Have your say on a service-level monitoring framework for mental health and addiction

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    The consultation phase to provide feedback on the development of a framework to monitor mental health services and addiction services is now closed. The Initial Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission provided people with an opportunity to have their say on the He Ara Āwhina service-level monitoring

  • Prioritising youth voices necessary to improve wellbeing

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    The mental health and wellbeing of rangatahi Māori and young people is one of the most important issues we can focus on today. We only need to acknowledge increasing levels of distress, and the many well-known barriers to wellbeing, to understand that much more needs to be done to support young

  • Young people experiencing acute mental distress need age-appropriate care

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    Too many young people experiencing acute mental distress are being admitted to adult inpatient mental health services, and this practice needs to stop. This is according to today’s Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report Te Huringa Tuarua 2023: Youth services focus

  • Chief Executive Karen Orsborn opinion piece on coercive practices

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    skills at the time. Our current mental health law overrides that right and discriminates on the basis of disability, breaching our country's obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It's important to acknowledge that mental health and addiction services

  • Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission unveils new name 

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    government and position our voice to improve the mental health, addiction, and wellbeing systems in Aotearoa.   “Having a name that reflects the spirit of the work that we do and the communities that we serve is an important part of this journey.  “Our role is to work in the spirit of Te

  • Our submissions

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    , 113 KB Download Submission to the Justice Committee pdf, 767 KB Download Submission to the Justice Committee docx, 102 KB Download 2022 submissions: Downloads Submission to the Social Services and Community Committee docx, 103 KB Download Submission to the Social Services and Community Committee