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  • Leadership as a mental wellbeing system enabler report

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    strengthen lived experience leadership in the system and 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

  • New report highlights Pacific wellbeing challenges

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    is one solution to addressing the gap between mental health and wellbeing outcomes for Pacific peoples in comparison to the rest of Aotearoa. “Holistic on-the-ground support is what makes the difference for Pacific families – we need to make it easier for people to access a range of services from

  • 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

  • Broader focus on wellbeing needed to understand COVID-19 impacts

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    their findings to contribute to our collective understanding of the impacts of the pandemic on wellbeing and on different parts of Aotearoa and what can be done to address these gaps.” View the report

  • 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

  • Focus on youth wellbeing more urgent than ever

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    Hiringa Mahara. Addressing the underlying causes behind poorer mental health for youth is an urgent priority. For example, households with young people residing in them are less likely to have enough income to meet everyday needs than households without young people present. What is clear from the

  • Peer support workforce paper 2023

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    critical to transforming models of care and addressing wider workforce shortages. 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. Peer support is often

  • Advancing Māori mental health and wellbeing

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    in Aotearoa is addressed in a number reports.  See our wellbeing monitoring reports Notable reports include: Young people speak out about Wellbeing: An insights report into the Wellbeing of Rangatahi Māori and other Young People in Aotearoa Exercising rangatiratanga during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Contact us

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    For any questions or feedback about Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission, you can contact us at kiaora@mhwc.govt.nz . Our postal address is: Te Hiringa Mahara, DX Box SP22502, Wellington. For media queries, contact  media@mhwc.govt.nz  or call 021 613 723. For

  • More deliberate focus needed to ensure all people in Aotearoa experience good wellbeing

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    their communities are not. “As a country, we need to address this. The He Ara Oranga report from the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction highlighted that mental wellbeing is deeply connected to wider wellbeing in our society. People called for this understanding to be embedded