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Published: 5 July, 2022

  “We started by making a strong commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and improving mental health and wellbeing outcomes for Māori and whānau. This is front and centre of who we are and our work,” Mr Wano said.

Published: 31 July, 2023

Jessica Stubbing, Research Fellow and Clinical Psychologist, Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures, discusses the importance of youth voice for improving our understanding of young people’s wellbeing.

Published: 31 May, 2023

health initiatives, telehealth and online services than the previous year, but many people are accessing new services being rolled out under the Access and Choice programme Workforce vacancies in specialist adult mental health and addiction services have doubled between 2018 and 2022, and we want to

Published: 25 February, 2026

   We present measures from across the Access and Options domain of our He Ara Awhina monitoring framework to help us understand how tāngata whaiora access services and how services are performing within a wider system.

Published: 20 May, 2025

It will take cross-party support, and cross-agency and cross-sector action at every level: at the individual, family, school, services or policy. Suicide prevention solutions need to be embedded across systems, policies and plans.

Published: 16 June, 2026

  “There are signs of progress across the system, however of the six focus areas we measure, only workforce is improving and ‘on track’.

Published: 31 May, 2023

More people are accessing new services through the Access and Choice programme, however, there has been a decrease in people accessing specialist mental health and addiction services and other primary mental health services, and little or no change on other measures of service quality.

Published: 11 June, 2025

The System Performance Monitoring Report released today by Te Hiringa Mahara outlines progress toward improving mental health and wellbeing outcomes for New Zealanders and shows the need to speed up much needed improvements across the system.

Published: August 2026

Structural factors such as social conditions and public policy play a major role in shaping both drug use and harm.  Therefore, to address alcohol and other drug harm an evidence-based public health approach is needed.

Published: 8 April, 2026

drive progress;  feature cross-government and preventative actions to improve mental health and wellbeing; and take a coordinated approach to bring together government strategies and plans that address mental health.