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Published: 23 October, 2024

  Our role is to bring to the fore the voices of lived and living experience, whānau and carers, and other priority populations to ensure services meet their needs and preferences.

Published: 4 January, 2023

As kaitiaki (guardian) of mental health and wellbeing, Te Hiringa Mahara works to ensure the voices of Māori and tāngata whaiora (people with lived experience of distress and addiction, substance, or gambling harm) can be heard and given prominence.

Published: May 2026

Needs to include youth-specific, peer-led, and Kaupapa Māori options be led by lived experience, embed peer support, be culturally responsive, rights-based, and trauma responsive ensure the provision of a timely and compassionate response as well as safe and welcoming places to go ensure tāngata whaiora

Published: 10 March, 2026

It's inescapable that young people live in an online and digital age, where connection and community look a lot different than for previous generations.

Published: 4 November, 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara stress a strong role for a lived experience workforce, and real choices of safe and welcoming services that are culturally appropriate, trauma-informed and uphold human rights wherever people live in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Published: January 2026

Te Hiringa Mahara does not handle complaints about individual or whānau experiences of using mental health and / or addiction services. These complaints are managed by the Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner (HDC).

Published: 29 June, 2023

There is huge potential for further development of the Māori lived experience workforce, who bring a Te Ao Māori perspective, which incorporates mātauranga Māori, tikanga, and kawa.

Published: 30 June, 2022

He Ara Āwhina describes what an ideal mental health and addiction system looks like. This will be used to assess, monitor, and advocate for improvements to the mental health and addiction system of Aotearoa, including services.

Published: 15 March, 2023

The report shows the following: Help provided will need to target people who already experience disadvantage, including people and whānau with lived experience of distress or addiction, and priority populations Immediate support should be provided to community groups, especially marae, as these entities

Published: 21 March, 2024

  “The peer support approach and values are critical to transforming models of care and addressing wider workforce shortages. It’s important that the Māori lived experience workforce, who bring a Te Ao Māori perspective, are included in planning.”