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Published: 5 November, 2025

It is going to take sustained leadership and collaboration to put in place much needed improvements to support people in crisis."

Published: 3 December, 2025

Government commits to funding a planned programme of work to collect mental health and addiction prevalence data by June 2025, to enable improved services and ensure value for money.    Each of the recommendations had a completion date of 30 June 2025.  

Published: 4 September, 2023

“Calling for the voices of young people to be heard in service policy and delivery echo what we have been saying,” said Ms Orsborn.

Published: 15 December, 2025

The day-long event was the first-time people from across the mental health and addiction sector have met to look at how crisis responses are working for people and their whānau.

Published: November 2025

New Zealand’s approach to mental health and wellbeing.

Published: 3 April, 2025

Today Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission released a report that documents progress establishing the programme, with recommendations on how to ensure it reaches its full potential.

Published: 5 June, 2024

This report included data on investment in, and use of, Kaupapa Māori services up to June 2022. This infographic provides an update to this quantitative data one year on – up to June 2023 – to observe what has changed and where further work is needed.

Published: November 2025

  We will then extend from there to recognise other Māori system and service leadership forums within the sector and our government partner agencies in paving pathways for strong relationships.

Published: 25 February, 2026

This information is intended to be used as evidence to support planning and investment, and to direct resources where they are most needed to improve mental health and addiction outcomes.

Published: 26 August, 2025

We will be reporting on this work later in 2025, with a monitoring report, and expect these findings to inform future service design and improvements.