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Published: 16 June, 2022

We commend the 2019 Wellbeing Budget $1.9 billion cross-agency investment in mental wellbeing, and the additional Budget 2022 investment of $100 million for mental health, including community acute options and crisis services.

Published: April 2026

Report Te Huringa: Mental Health and Addiction Service Monitoring Report 2022 Te Huringa 2022 was our first mental health services and addiction services monitoring report. It shows the performance of mental health services and addiction services between 2016-2017 and 2020-2021.

Published: November 2023

the He Ara Āwhina framework Date published: 19 July 2022 Response date: 6 April 2022 View/download PDF:   MHWC2022-001- OIA He Ara Āwhina framework [PDF, 937 KB] Protection of Personal and Property Rights (PPPR) hearings Date published: 15 December 2021  Response date: 8 September 2021 View

Published: 22 March, 2022

Mental Health Service and Addiction Service Monitoring Report 2022 [PDF, 958 KB]  is being released today. The report monitors the performance of mental health services and addictions services between 2016 / 17 and 2020 / 21.

Published: 25 July, 2023

Te Hiringa Mahara has been governed by an active board since being formed in February 2021. There have been two recent changes.  Having been on the board since our establishment in February 2021, Dr Jemaima Tiatia's term has come to an end.

Published: April 2026

Budget 2019 to Budget 2022 investment in mental health and addiction report This report focuses on where key mental health and addiction investments announced in the 2019 Wellbeing Budget in May 2019 had been spent as of 30 June 2023.

Published: 1 November, 2022

The He Ara Āwhina co-development phase ran from March 2021 to June 2022. A draft version of He Ara Āwhina went out for public consultation for six weeks from 8 March to 19 April 2022.

Published: 20 January, 2024

Read more about The Access and Choice Programme: Report on the first three years 2022 Read and download the paper below: Downloads Supplementary paper: Access and Choice Programme Download Supplementary paper: Access and Choice Programme Download

Published: 5 June, 2024

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 accessing specialist mental health and addiction services has decreased over a five-year time frame.

Published: 28 August, 2024

The Commission received data about the status of the funding allocated for mental health and addiction initiatives in Budget 2019 to Budget 2022 from all 13 responsible government agencies. The specific areas funding was used for is detailed in the report.