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Published: November 2025

Amorangi to help public service agencies to meet their new responsibility under the Public Service Act 2020 and to lift and maintain the capability of their people to engage with Māori. Lifting Māori Crown relations capability means increasing competency areas and skills that will shift the Crown

Published: 20 May, 2025

resources and skills to build resilience. We need to ask what more we will do to build a secure future with more certainty that inspires optimism and hope. The global rankings detailed in the Unicef report are a reminder of the scale of the task ahead of us. It will take all of us working together across social and political divides to make the shifts we urgently need. With concerted effort it will be possible to turn things around.  

Published: 7 August, 2025

those challenges. This helped shape the key shifts we need to make as an organisation to fulfil our legislative mandate. Following extensive discussion around the board table it was agreed the vision and mission should remain unchanged, with three strategic priorities adopted. The shifts in our

Published: 11 June, 2025

wellbeing we have provided a shared view of what a good mental health and addiction system looks like. The system shifts that are needed to achieve the vision of He Ara Oranga are clear”.   “This will rely on having meaningful lived experience leadership, services meeting the highest needs

Published: 20 May, 2025

services in the community. The Committee’s report refers to a proposal to replace compulsory community treatment orders with community support commitments. As recommended in our submission, we would still like to see a sunset clause to achieve an end to seclusion. To make this shift it’s important to

Published: 1 July, 2021

, and need to be simple and practical, with supports put in place for implementation.   People said it needed to: focus on equity and relevance for Māori, be relevant for specific and diverse populations, support a paradigm shift to wellbeing, be focused on strengths, and be relevant to all age

Published: 29 June, 2023

peer workers.”   “We were told that a paradigm shift is needed and that developing the peer support and lived experience workforce is a critical priority,” Ms Orsborn said.   Download a copy of the report

Published: September 2023

in mental health and wellbeing. It is designed as one of the tools to shift the way the whole system is working towards a wellbeing approach. He Ara Oranga wellbeing outcomes framework sits alongside its partner framework, the He Ara Āwhina system monitoring framework that describes what an ideal

Published: 25 June, 2020

brave and bold shift in culture and new ways of working together.” Findings on four priority areas are: Establishing the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission is being established, which sends the right signals and provides someone to guide the system. People

Published: March 2024

questions show there is more work to do to improve practice. This includes taking more time for decision making and involving whānau, family and other supporters in planning with tāngata whaiora. During this webinar, we shared our key findings and discussed the changes we want to see happen to shift