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  • Pacific people's wellbeing - the path to equitable outcomes webinar

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    Te Hiringa Mahara and Le Va co-hosted a webinar on supporting Pacific people's wellbeing in Aotearoa. The webinar shared and expanded on the findings of our Pacific wellbeing report which was released in May 2024.   The report brought together an assessment of Pacific peoples mental health and

  • 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

  • Crisis response webinar: what makes an effective crisis response

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    forms part of the ongoing Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission programme of work examining effective crisis response systems, which will inform our upcoming monitoring report scheduled for publication in November 2025, and we expect to inform future service design and

  • 2024 service monitoring infographics

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    access to mental health and addiction services and the service options available to people. In this infographic we present the key results for young people. The infographic also presents findings from our quantitative assessment of mental health and wellbeing among young people and rangatahi Māori, using

  • Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission supports legislation to ban conversion therapy

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    Commission calls for the Justice Select Committee to listen carefully to the voices of rainbow communities The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission (the Commission) appeared in front of the Justice Select Committee yesterday to speak to its  written submission  on the Conversion

  • Covid-19 Insights Series - Supporting wellbeing after a crisis

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    lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic can help support the mental health and wellbeing of communities recovering from other crises, like Cyclone Gabrielle. The report shows the following: Help provided will need to target people who already experience disadvantage, including people and whānau

  • Budget 2019 to Budget 2022 investment in mental health and addiction report downloads

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    Government’s priority Taking mental health seriously   was allocated to each initiative and the expenditure on each of those initiatives for the four years from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2023. It describes each initiative in terms of what it set out to achieve and its status as of 30 June 2023. The report

  • Pushing ahead with Phase two of the Health NZ and Police mental health response changes

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    move ahead when they are ready. In areas where improvements can be introduced now, there is the opportunity for people in need to be better supported by a health response. People need to have confidence in the plans and implementation approach.  It is important that NZ Police and HealthNZ Te Whatu

  • Mental health and addiction specialist service access factsheet download

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    2024, in line with the best practice of waiting 3 months or more from reference year end.  Download Access to specialist mental health and addiction services, 2023/24 factsheet pdf, 342 KB Download Related works Find all of our service monitoring products released in 2025.

  • Access and Choice programme 2025 report webinar

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    provides an overview of the implementation of Access and Choice,  primary mental health care programme.  The report finds that the Access and Choice programme has increased the access to and choice in services for people with mild to moderate mental health and addiction needs. This has