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Access and choice for mental health and addiction services encouraging, but workforce challenges remain
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, and higher rates of access to youth services for rangatahi Māori.” While high quality access and choice requires culturally and socially appropriate service settings and delivery, it also requires a stable and well-trained workforce, sufficient staff, and professional sensitivity to do the job. “We
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Unicef report highlights Aotearoa New Zealand's low ranking for child and youth mental health and wellbeing
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catalysts for the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction (the He Ara Oranga Inquiry) in 2019 alongside widespread concern within the mental health sector and the broader community about services. Rates of suicide for young Māori people or rangatahi Māori have been noted as a pressing health
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He Ara Āwhina development journey
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and Pacific communities. People told us: Support starts and continues with people and communities, not services. The former Mental Health Commissioner’s framework was viewed as being too narrow but was something that could be refined and built upon. The voices of Māori and tāngata whaiora are crucial
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Achieving equity of Pacific mental health and wellbeing outcomes
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analysis of well-established and respected data sources used across government to inform policy-making. And a qualitative aspect which provides case studies of initiatives that are succeeding in promoting Pacific Peoples’ mental health and wellbeing, which may act as a model for future work
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Data phase/ He Ara Oranga wellbeing outcomes framework
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Once the He Ara Oranga wellbeing outcomes framework was drafted, the next step was to find what data were available to measure and monitor the performance of the mental health and wellbeing system. In the data phase, the Initial Commission looked at how they could use information collected from
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Service monitoring data summaries 2025
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Two new data summaries provide updated data on access and trends for mental health and addiction services, with the second one focused on addiction specialist services. This is released as part of our regular monitoring role. The purpose of these data summaries is to highlight and bring together
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COVID-19 restrictions impact family violence and wellbeing, empowered communities key to supporting safety at home
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During the 2020 national lockdown, reports of family violence increased considerably, but the New Zealand Police and advocacy groups were concerned that this was still under-reported. Women, children, rangatahi Māori, disabled people and rainbow youth were particularly affected. This is according
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Mental health and addiction specialist service access factsheet download
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This factsheet provides supplementary information about the number of people accessing specialist mental health and addiction services, with data up to June 2024. Latest data to June 2024, shows the number of people using specialist mental health and addiction services continues to decrease. In
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Targeted vaccination approaches needed in the face of Omicron variant
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Commission. 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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Bigger role for mental health and addiction peer support workforce called for
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part of the frontline workforce, but they have a wider role too. Alongside other lived experience roles, they can help transform the landscape of mental health and addiction services,” Ms Orsborn said. “There is huge potential for further development of the Māori peer workforce to