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Published: 24 June, 2026

On 24 June 2026, Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission launched a new roadmap calling for faster, more focused action to improve mental health, addiction and wellbeing outcomes in Aotearoa New Zealand.   This webinar is your opportunity to learn about this.

Published: February 2026

Peer support workforce paper 2023 Read and download our Peer support workforce paper 2023 about the critical role of the peer workforce in enabling recovery, improving hope and in transforming the landscape of mental health and addiction services.

Published: November 2025

The framework will support Te Hiringa Mahara to monitor mental health and addiction services and will be used to advocate for improvements to those services.

Published: 15 December, 2025

These have been documented in a short synthesis report: He Tirohanga o Te Ara Tūroa Bold Directions for the future of Aotearoa's Mental Health System (download link below).

Published: 14 February, 2023

This is according to today’s Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report,  The impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of rural communities in Aotearoa New Zealand .

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: 8 December, 2021

Te Rau Tira introduces our vision to improve wellbeing for communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our report measures wellbeing through our He Ara Oranga Wellbeing Outcomes Framework , which was developed alongside communities and created with people with lived experience of poor wellbeing.

Published: 29 June, 2023

Our Peer support workforce paper 2023 shows the critical role of the peer workforce in enabling recovery, improving hope and in transforming the landscape of mental health and addiction services. The potential of this workforce is yet to be fully realised.

Published: November 2023

Aotearoa / New Zealand Date published: 20 June 2024 Response date: 29 April 2024 View/download PDF: MHWC2024-003 - Algorithm Charter for Aotearoa / New Zealand OIA response [PDF, 139KB] Government department spending on public relations and communications support Date published: 20 June 2024 Response

Published: February 2026

What people told us in our 2022 He Ara Āwhina framework consultation, and the changes made in response, have been summarised in four ‘voices documents’ showing feedback from Māori, people with Lived Experience, people who work in, support whānau with, or personally experience alcohol or other drug harm