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Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission supports legislation to ban conversion therapy
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News. The Bill aims to ban conversion practices, which cover a broad range of practices that seek to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. “We know from listening to rainbow communities that discrimination and prejudice against who they are has a
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Time called on compulsory community mental health treatment
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NewsOrders report documents how tāngata whaiora, whānau and family, and Māori feel marginalised in processes that determine what treatment they receive. “The use of compulsory community treatment orders is a practice from mental health that is out of step with human rights and current approaches to
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Rural communities respond well to pandemic, despite challenges
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NewsThe COVID-19 pandemic has added additional stress to the rural community, which itself faces different wellbeing challenges to those of urban Aotearoa.
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Access and choice for mental health and addiction services encouraging, but workforce challenges remain
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Newsmental health and addiction staff and reduce pressure on the existing workforce. “While we can and should take satisfaction from the progress made over the last three years, we need to ensure that people have mental health, wellbeing and addiction services when and where they are needed, and access to a
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Broader focus on wellbeing needed to understand COVID-19 impacts
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NewsA narrow focus on mental health may prevent us from understanding the broader wellbeing impacts of COVID-19 in Aotearoa, Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission - has found in its first report on the impact of the pandemic on wellbeing. “For people to flourish and experience
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Focus on youth wellbeing more urgent than ever
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NewsHiringa Mahara. Addressing the underlying causes behind poorer mental health for youth is an urgent priority. For example, households with young people residing in them are less likely to have enough income to meet everyday needs than households without young people present. What is clear from the
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New primary mental health and addiction support provides a welcome expansion, but gaps remain – new report
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Newspicture of the system available. More New Zealanders are accessing mental health or addiction support from a GP or other primary health provider. The Access and Choice programme, newly established in 2019/20, provided support to around 186,000 people in 2022/23. However, the number of people
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Collective effort will ensure Auditor General’s recommendations on mental health support for rangatahi and young people hit the mark
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News; “It is very encouraging to see other agencies taking up these issues and considering how they contribute. We welcome the report from the Auditor General and are very pleased to see he has committed to following up.”
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Targeted vaccination approaches needed in the face of Omicron variant
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NewsCommission. January figures from the Ministry of Health indicate that mental health service users have full vaccination rates that are 9% lower than the general population, and rates amongst addiction service users are 19% lower than the general population. The figures for Māori are also concerning
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More deliberate focus needed to ensure all people in Aotearoa experience good wellbeing
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Newstheir communities are not. “As a country, we need to address this. The He Ara Oranga report from the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction highlighted that mental wellbeing is deeply connected to wider wellbeing in our society. People called for this understanding to be embedded