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Improving crisis responses across Aotearoa New Zealand webinar
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NewsTe Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission held a webinar on what's needed to improve crisis responses across Aotearoa New Zealand on Monday 1 December 2025.
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Covid-19 Insights Series - Impact of COVID-19 on wellbeing of older people in Aotearoa New Zealand
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ResourceImpact of COVID-19 on wellbeing of older people in Aotearoa New Zealand In this report, we show that older people contributed greatly through the pandemic, often coping and supporting others across a range of areas - despite often facing worse impacts of the pandemic.
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Independent Commission’s report highlights the importance of improving access and choice for mental health and addiction services in Aotearoa
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News“Access to mental health, wellbeing, and addiction services when they are needed, and giving people a diverse choice of services to suit their needs, are vitally important for the successful long-term transformation of mental health, addiction, and wellbeing systems in Aotearoa,” says Mental Health and
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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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NewsRates of suicide for young Māori people or rangatahi Māori have been noted as a pressing health and social issue for Aotearoa New Zealand. Youth mental health is a complex interplay between individual, peer, family, system and macro factors.
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Covid-19 Insights Series - Impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of rural communities in Aotearoa New Zealand
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ResourceImpact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of rural communities in Aotearoa New Zealand In this report, we show that rural communities face different wellbeing challenges to urban Aotearoa, and the pandemic has presented a range of added stresses.
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Mental health system still falling short for young people and Māori, new report shows
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NewsIntroduction to the 2026 system performance monitoring report Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission - says improvements in Aotearoa New Zealand’s mental health and addiction system must come faster to meet the rising need for young people and Māori.
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Top priorities for New Zealand's first Minister for Mental Health
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NewsThese impact on young people’s ability to feel hopeful about their futures. Yet, recently released performance measures for Te Whatu Ora | Health NZ show a concerning increase in waiting times for young people to access specialist mental health services.
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Young people are missing out on access to mental health services
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NewsTe Hiringa Mahara is calling for increased urgency to improve access to specialist mental health and addiction services for young people after new analysis shows a continued reduction in the number of young people accessing services.
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Effectively addressing rising distress in rangatahi and young people
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NewsThe 2024/25 New Zealand Health Survey found 1 in 5 of 15–24-year-olds experienced high to very high psychological distress. Primary and specialist mental health and addiction services cannot meet need at this scale.
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Improving wellbeing outcomes for tāngata whaiora
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Infographics We have a unique role to monitor wellbeing outcomes for people in Aotearoa New Zealand and show cross-government contribution to improving mental health and wellbeing at a population level.