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Published: 5 February, 2023

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. Impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of rural communities in Aotearoa New

Published: 25 February, 2026

We’ve put the key mental health and addiction findings from the NZ Health Survey 2024/2025 into an easy-to-read summary.

Published: 30 September, 2025

As an integral part of our advocacy work, Te Hiringa Mahara often comments on and makes recommendations in response to consultation documents, regulations, draft bills, and regulations that may impact on the mental health and wellbeing of people in Aotearoa.

Published: 24 March, 2026

This short paper captures outcome of a think tank held in August 2025 to explore the future roles of primary and community care play in supporting people with mental health and substance use needs.

Published: 4 November, 2025

Urupare mōrearea: Crisis responses monitoring report was published in November 2025. This report focuses on crisis responses over a five-year period, from January 2020 to December 2024.

Published: 3 December, 2025

In June 2024, five recommendations for improvements were included in the 2024 mental health and addiction service monitoring report Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey Has Begun. We have now asked how much was achieved by 30 June 2025?

Published: 26 August, 2025

This crisis response literature scan reviews international and Aotearoa evidence on crisis responses and provides insight into what crisis responses are most effective.

Published: 8 August, 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara has placed the key mental health and addiction findings from the NZ Health Survey 2023/2024 into one, easy to read summary.

Published: 25 June, 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara's wellbeing assessment reveals people who interact with mental health and addiction services face significantly greater barriers to wellbeing across economic, social and cultural indicators compared to the general population.

Published: 1 October, 2020

We created a framework called He Ara Āwhina, which means pathways to support. He Ara Āwhina was published 30 June 2022 and describes what an ideal mental health and addiction system looks like. The process for developing this framework is described on this page.