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Lived experiences of Compulsory Community Treatment Orders under the Mental Health Act (1992) webinar
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Kupenga Net Trust in Tairāwhiti as an adult peer support/advocacy worker, Consumer Leader, and Mataora. Guy was privileged to carry the voices of whānau to local, regional, and national forums where he was a Co-Chair of Ngā Hau e Whā (National Consumer Advocacy Group) and become a member of the National Association of Mental Health Services Consumer Advisors (NAMHSCA) prior to joining Te Hiringa Mahara in 2022.
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Improving crisis responses - Police and Health NZ change programme webinar
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include lived experience insights and representatives from Health NZ and Police. Te Hiringa Mahara will facilitate the webinar, and share findings from our acute options insights paper along with an introduction to work we are doing on monitoring crisis responses. Our speakers are: Dr Leeanne Fisher
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Top priorities for New Zealand's first Minister for Mental Health
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? The COVID-19 pandemic, the increasingly severe natural disasters and the cost of living crisis has led to mounting concerns about whether services are readily available. Mental health is more visible than ever before, and not always for the right reasons. What we need
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Guide to language in He Ara Āwhina
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Ara Āwhina [DOCX, 108 KB] Addiction services Services that exist to respond to the experiences, needs, and aspirations of tāngata whaiora and whānau who experience harm from substances or harm from gambling, substance addiction, or non-substance addiction. Coercive practises Practises where
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Reports to the Minister
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Minister Doocey - November 2024 [589] Briefing on meeting with Minister Doocey - September 2024 [KB317] Briefing on Budget 19 to 22 Investment in Mental Health and Addiction - August 2024 [305KB] Briefing on Acute Options for Mental Health Care - August 2024 [228KB] Briefing on Oranga Tamariki Submission
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More action needed to address mental health and addiction service challenges
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More people are accessing new services through the Access and Choice programme, however, there has been a decrease in people accessing specialist mental health and addiction services and other primary mental health services, and little or no change on other measures of service quality. This is
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Independent Commission’s report highlights the importance of improving access and choice for mental health and addiction services in Aotearoa
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recommendations in He Ara Oranga: Report of the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction , has a particular focus on people with mild-to-moderate mental health and addiction needs and improving access to primary mental health, wellbeing and addiction services, including in Kaupapa Māori, Pacific
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More kaupapa Māori services
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Māori, who make up 17% of the population and have higher rates of mental distress than other populations groups, have been advocating for equitable funding for kaupapa Māori services for decades. What needs to change? We want to see: Equitable investment in kaupapa Māori services
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Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission welcomes Budget 2022 investment in specialist mental health and addiction services
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We commend the Government’s Budget 2022 investment in specialist mental health and addiction, particularly the investment in community-based crisis services, specialist child and adolescent mental health and addiction services, and Kaupapa Māori services. "We see this latest announcement as a
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Te Hiringa Mahara welcomes Health Quality and Safety Commission report on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 on Aotearoa
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services. “As the Commission notes, the arrival of the Omicron variant has exposed long-standing, fundamental weaknesses in our health system. There is little capacity in the mental health system to cope with shocks, there are entrenched inequities in access to services and better outcomes experienced by