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Published: 9 April, 2025

We will be reporting on this later in 2025 and expect this to inform future service design and improvements. Read the Implementation of Phase Two of Mental Health Response Changes to start announcement (8 April 2025)

Published: 7 August, 2025

Find out more about our refreshed strategy Date: 1pm Wednesday 20 August 2025.

Published: December 2025

The objective of Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission in performing its functions and exercising its powers, under the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Act 2020, is to contribute to better and equitable mental health and wellbeing outcomes for people in Aotearoa New Zealand

Published: 14 May, 2026

Read and download the 2026 analysis report

Published: 26 August, 2025

We will be reporting on this work later in 2025, with a monitoring report, and expect these findings to inform future service design and improvements.

Published: 10 March, 2026

(First published on 5 March 2026) Read our submission to the Education and Workforce Select Committee Inquiry into the harm young New Zealanders encounter online, and the roles that Government, business, and society should play in addressing those harms (July 2025)  (PDF 1.7MB)

Published: 19 August, 2026

As part of our 2025–26 work programme, we commissioned a substantive Literature review along with an Evidence brief on “what works” to reduce alcohol and other drug harm..

Published: 29 August, 2023

Interviews were conducted from March to May 2020 and do not reflect new decisions, processes, or announcements made since that time.

Published: 1 July, 2021

Over April and May 2020, the Initial Commission sought a range of views to start developing an outcomes framework for mental health and wellbeing.

Published: 1 June, 2021

In February 2021, the Initial Commission Board approved the advice to the Commission and the Minister of Health about identified data gaps and implementation. Read and download the data phase report Download Data phase report Download