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More deliberate focus needed to ensure all people in Aotearoa experience good wellbeing
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NewsThis is not good for them, nor for the broader community. It adversely affects, sometimes very seriously, many aspects of their quality of life, including their health.
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Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission calls for stronger action to transform key areas of the mental health and addiction system
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NewsThe Commission is also calling for a decrease in compulsory treatment orders and mental health law that does not discriminate on the basis of having a ‘mental disorder’.
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Mental health system still falling short for young people and Māori, new report shows
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News“We continue to see high rates of seclusion and other coercive practices being used, which raises concerns about the ability of the system to uphold human rights-based practice. Māori continue to experience these practices at a higher rate than any other group.
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Improving wellbeing outcomes for tāngata whaiora
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In 2025, we reported on the inequity for people who interact with mental health services, and those who interact with specialist mental health services in particular Māori, young people, LGBTQIA+ people, Pacific people and disabled people who face compounding and intersecting barriers to wellbeing.
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Positive progress with targets but challenges remain for young people
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NewsThe latest mental health and addiction target factsheets for quarter two 2025/26 can be found on the Health NZ | Te Whatu Ora website .
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Haurora Hinengaro Hui Taumata Mental Health Conference 2026
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NewsRead the full programme on the conference website. Read about the 2025 conference When: Wednesday 11 November 2026 Where: Pullman Hotel, Tāmaki Makaurau Register now - places are limited
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Covid-19 Insights Series - Media reporting of COVID-19
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ResourceIn the pandemic context, this would mean considering mental health much more broadly than the direct impacts on health and work. Everybody experiences wellbeing differently, based on a variety of factors; and some communities experience poorer wellbeing across a range of measures.
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Advocacy
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Put an end to CCTOs Learn about how we are advocating for change from a coercive to a choice based mental health system. More kaupapa Māori services Learn about our call for equitable funding of kaupapa Māori mental health and addiction services.
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New primary mental health and addiction support provides a welcome expansion, but gaps remain – new report
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News“The challenges we face as a society show no sign of abating and we need to be able to respond,” Orsborn says. “Based on this new report, we now better understand what is happening across the system.
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Rolling out more options for crisis care
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NewsIn our insights paper we describe the range of options that could and, in some cases, do make up the acute care continuum in Aotearoa. Alongside traditional inpatient care, there is a wide variety of peer-led, community-based, and Kaupapa Māori approaches we can draw on.