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Published: April 2026

The future of primary mental health care This short paper captures outcome of a think tank held in August 2025 to explore the future roles of primary and community care play in supporting people with mental health and s We independently monitor, assess, report and share findings on mental health and

Published: June 2026

Online safety education rolled out in schools, greater regulation of social media platforms and youth co-design of solutions. Commitment to ring fenced prevention and early intervention investment that reflects the 25% population of young people.

Published: 3 April, 2025

The report was released on 3 April 2025 and provides an overview of the implementation of Access and Choice,  primary mental health care programme.

Published: 22 March, 2023

Investing in and re-establishing social infrastructure will help re-establish a sense of community and enough resilience to mitigate many of the worst mental health, addiction, and wellbeing effects of any future crises.

Published: 8 June, 2023

   This report looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the wellbeing of Pacific peoples in Aotearoa.

Published: December 2025

We collect feedback on the quality of our work, our impact, the issues we focus on, representation of lived experience voices in our work, and how we measure up to this.   This is the second stakeholder survey we have published since 2023.

Published: 4 November, 2025

  “Right now, some districts have a range of crisis services; while others have very limited options, especially after hours.

Published: 15 December, 2025

While we acknowledge the complexity of this challenge, there is an opportunity to follow through on the work and insights from Te Aka Whai Ora to improve access and responsiveness of mental health and addiction services for Māori and whānau.

Published: 8 August, 2025

We have recently expanded our suite of evidence products to include shorter infographics, evidence briefs and data summaries. This data summary is an example of providing curated mental health and addiction information for use by the sector and system.

Published: 30 November, 2022

“We are pleased to see an improvement in the size of the Kaupapa Māori workforce compared with last year, with 29 Kaupapa Māori services contracted across 19 out of 20 districts. This included 17 additional Kaupapa Māori services established over the 2021/22 year.