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Published: February 2026

There has been high uptake of services, with rangatahi and young people making up 20% of people accessing the Access and Choice Programme and Māori making up 27%.  We outline the changes we want to see and make three recommendations.

Published: 10 March, 2026

Exposure to disordered eating content has been associated to poor self-esteem and body image concerns. Cyberbullying can be a prevalent form of harassment that is widely reported. This is where action must take place, to regulate these spaces and harmful content.

Published: 7 August, 2025

We have reviewed and refreshed our strategy to continue to meet the challenges of today. After taking stock of where the organisation had got to after its first three years, we have looked ahead to how we’ll achieve our vision over the next four years.

Published: 8 June, 2022

“We want a continued focus on improving mental health outcomes and ensuring a range of views and experiences at the decision-making table.”

Published: 4 January, 2023

Throughout his life Mr Wano has taken every opportunity to advocate for the voices of Māori in healthcare and carries on this mahi today by ensuring Te Hiringa Mahara plays an important role in the current transformation of the health system.

Published: 28 August, 2024

This report shows where the Budget 2019 investment in the Government’s priority Taking mental health seriously   was allocated to each initiative and the expenditure on each of those initiatives for the four years from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2023.

Published: January 2026

Tools to create system change Find out how we use one of our key functions to advocate for improvements across the system. Our submissions You can find copies of our submission documents available for download here.

Published: 30 November, 2022

“We are past the halfway point of the programme, and now is a good time to pause and reflect on whether the investment into community and primary care is paying the dividends identified in He Ara Oranga ,” says Te Hiringa Mahara Chair Hayden Wano.

Published: 2 February, 2022

“People with greater experience of negative health outcomes than most want more power in their decision-making.

Published: 30 September, 2024

Together these two sources of data will offer rich insights about causality of mental health but also broader wellbeing for children and young people. Data linking and making data available from both these studies across the system for central agencies is critical for system performance monitoring.