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Published: 24 March, 2025

The conference provides the opportunity to bring together a forum of national and international experience and expertise including te ao Māori (Māori world views), lived/living experience, clinical, funder and systems thinking perspectives.

Published: 30 June, 2022

Leadership roles (lived experience leadership roles; whānau leadership roles) Designated roles within the mental health and addiction system where people use their personal or whānau experiences of distress, substance harm, or gambling harm to build and monitor the mental health and addiction system,

Published: 24 July, 2024

  This report is important not only for documenting the harms that have impacted the lives of thousands of New Zealanders, but to also recognise and understand the subsequent trauma and distress that people live with as a result.

Published: January 2024

Lived Experience Learn about our commitment to being an advocate for communities with lived experience of mental distress and addiction. Advocacy Learn about our advocacy work.

Published: 22 September, 2021

This pathway is an important step forward in transforming our mental health and addiction system and gives us a benchmark from which we can monitor progress," says Board Chair, Hayden Wano.

Published: January 2026

He brings frontline youth and advocacy experience to his role through a range of health, leadership, community and young people’s networks. At 14, Josiah had a life changing experience as a participant in the Pacific Youth Leadership and Transformation programme (PYLAT).

Published: 6 July, 2026

This includes Māori, lived experience, and priority population groups, such as Pacific people and disabled people."

Published: August 2026

  We are looking for an experienced Senior Analyst with well-developed critical thinking skills, strong analytical skills and experience, and advanced writing skills. We are particularly interested in applications from those with expertise in mental health and/or substance harm and addiction.

Published: January 2026

It elevates the voices of young people and draws from their experiences and expertise.

Published: 1 October, 2020

Ninety-seven individuals and groups gave feedback through a discussion document, at lived experience focus groups, as well as hui and talanoa with Māori and Pacific communities. People told us: Support starts and continues with people and communities, not services.