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  • Te Huringa Tuarua: Mental Health and Addiction Service Monitoring Reports 2023

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    Access and Choice programme Workforce vacancies in specialist adult mental health and addiction services have doubled between 2018 and 2022, and we want to see a clear strategy and roadmap to address growing workforce shortages Coercive practices continue to be widely used, particularly for Māori and

  • Leadership as a mental wellbeing system enabler report

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    drive cross-government leadership to address mental health and wellbeing. We make the following calls to action: 1.   Ensure Māori lived experience leaders are prioritised in the changes to health system structures following the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora. 2.  Resource and

  • Our relationships

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    joining our lived experience mailing list advocating together to bring about change sharing your views, experiences and hopes for the future when we are monitoring parts of the mental health, addiction and wellbeing system. Sign-up to our lived experience mailing list.  First name Family name Email address I want to receive Lived experience updates and news You must enable JavaScript to submit this form

  • Achieving equity of Pacific mental health and wellbeing outcomes

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    housing and better mental health Pacific communities and organisations are doing the mahi, but system support is needed Enabling communities to deliver on better wellbeing outcomes works Wrap around support to address wider wellbeing will achieve improved Pacific mental health outcomes By Pacific

  • More investment needed for kaupapa Māori mental health and addiction services

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    disparities faced by Māori in mental health outcomes, and calls for the need for change to address these inequities.The tangata whaiora Māori who contributed to the report emphasised the funding disparity.  “Approximately 30 per cent of Māori will experience mental distress to the level categorised as

  • Rolling out more options for crisis care

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    Allen, the founder of Taranaki Retreat, explains this concept using the language of a “window of opportunity”: seeing crisis as a moment in time where there is an opportunity for tāngata whaiora and their supporters to address what is leading to the distress and to find alternative and sustainable

  • Unicef report highlights Aotearoa New Zealand's low ranking for child and youth mental health and wellbeing

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    are failing to address well-established high rates of suicide and mental distress among our young people as a nation. There is overwhelming evidence to show that psychological distress and mental wellbeing for young people is declining over time. New Zealand’s high suicide rates was one of the

  • Peer mental support role in EDs is a positive move

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    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.”   The Commission has provided advice to the Minister for Mental Health that will address other pressure points

  • Improve wellbeing for rangatahi and young people

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    address this. We are particularly concerned that: Young people continue to experience long wait times to than other age groups to access specialist mental health services. Initial dispensings for antidepressant, antipsychotic, and anxiolytic medications have increased substantially. Last year, 159

  • Access to specialist mental health and addiction services continues to decrease

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    Government and health agencies to accelerate improvement in a range of critical areas. This included a call for Health NZ to develop a mental health and addiction workforce plan to address service capacity and workforce shortages by June 2025. “We will be keeping a close watch on access and will