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Published: 3 April, 2025

  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

Published: 2 September, 2025

, including in peer-led services and co-response teams. The webinar explored key principles for an effective crisis response system, including the benefits of national coordination, standards, and infrastructure, alongside the impact of kaupapa Māori and peer-led initiatives in Aotearoa. This webinar

Published: 28 October, 2021

This report found that the programme has put much-needed investment into primary and community care in line with many of the recommendations in He Ara Oranga: Report of the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction , enabling important services to be provided. The overall programme is on

Published: 29 May, 2025

in 2019/20 to 8.6% in 2023/24. “A reported surge in methamphetamine use in the last year is likely to put further pressure on services. At a time that we need to be bolstering services, we’re seeing fewer people access addiction services.”   “Another sign that the system is under pressure

Published: 5 June, 2024

failed attempts to access services, and failure to get the care they need has resulted in a loss of trust. This has been reported by the Commission previously and we again call on services to meet the needs of Māori. The report shows rangatahi and young people face significant barriers to access

Published: 15 December, 2025

we acknowledge the complexity of this challenge, there is an opportunity to follow through on the work and insights from Te Aka Whai Ora to improve access and responsiveness of mental health and addiction services for Māori and whānau. The recommendations Te Hiringa Mahara made in Kua Tīmata Te

Published: 4 November, 2025

: Crisis responses monitoring report - summary pdf, 800 KB Download Urupare mōrearea: Crisis responses monitoring report - summary docx, 403 KB Download Urupare mōrearea: Crisis responses monitoring report - Te Reo Māori summary pdf, 793 KB Download Urupare mōrearea: Crisis responses monitoring report - Te

Published: 3 December, 2025

, particularly ensuring that services meet the needs of population groups who are not always been well served by mental health and addiction services — Māori and young people.   Downloads Assessment of progress - implementation of Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga recommendations report pdf, 404 KB Download Assessment of progress - implementation of Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga recommendations docx, 440 KB Download

Published: 22 September, 2021

improving outcomes for Māori, including community-led design of kaupapa Māori services that are by Māori, for Māori working with people with lived experience of mental distress and addiction to expand access to services and choice in support options so people can recover from mental distress and addiction

Published: 10 October, 2022

Te Hiringa Mahara is producing a series of short reports during 2022 and 2023 to add our collective understanding of the wellbeing impacts of the pandemic and to provide key insights on wellbeing areas or populations of focus. Media reporting of COVID-19 Our first report Media reporting of COVID-19