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  • Focus on youth wellbeing more urgent than ever

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    data is that there are some young people who are experiencing more hardship than others. For example, rangatahi Māori, disabled and LGBQTIA+ people are subject to higher levels of inequities when compared to older age groups, and lowered wellbeing than their peers, she said. Across the board, young

  • Mental health and addiction service monitoring

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    increasing complexity of needs in those accessing specialist services, along with increased pressure on specialist services due to workforce challenges.  The report calls for urgent action by Government and health agencies to accelerate improvement in a range of critical areas. The report makes

  • Supplementary paper: Access and Choice Programme workforce development funding – the first three years

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    Our Supplementary paper: Access and Choice Programme workforce development funding – the first three years was published in January 2024. Since being announced in Budget 2019, approximately $54 million in contracted funding has been allocated to a range of initiatives within three main development

  • Improve wellbeing for rangatahi and young people

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    people across all districts, including kaupapa Māori services, residential alternatives to hospital based inpatient mental health care and short-term respite care. Why is this important? Rates of distress for rangatahi and young people have increased over the last ten years, and more needs to be done to

  • New primary mental health and addiction support provides a welcome expansion, but gaps remain – new report

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    appropriate support. They have the longest wait times for getting access to specialist services of any age group. Across the whole population, there is a continued increase in psychological distress experienced by New Zealanders. “The challenges we face as a society show no sign of abating and we need

  • Older people contributed to communities during COVID-19, whilst dealing with impacts on personal wellbeing

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    Older people have contributed greatly to their communities through the COVID-19 pandemic whilst managing increased loneliness and a range of other challenges. This is according to today’s Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report  ​ The impact of COVID-19 on the

  • Leadership

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    services, and aged care. Karen has also held roles as National Lead for Elective Services and Group Manager Funding at the Ministry of Health, as well as operational roles in a District Health Board. Karen is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Services Management (ACHSM) and a former

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

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    . “Rangatahi and young people aged under 25 make up over 10,000 of the 16,000 fewer people being seen. This requires urgent attention.” “We want to see improved access so people get timely support when they need it.” The reasons behind a reduction in access to services were reported in our 2024 Kua

  • New prevalence study will provide vital data

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    the Growing up in NZ study (GUiNZ) by Minister for Social Development Louise Upston on 19 September 2024. New Zealand's largest contemporary longitudinal study of child development, hosted and led by the University of Auckland, now has received $16.4 million of government funding until 2028. This next

  • New report highlights Pacific wellbeing challenges

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    peoples.  This will require increased and concerted effort across all government agencies, and ongoing leadership from the Ministry for Pacific Peoples and Pacific leaders,” Cullen added. Despite these challenges, however, we also report that Pacific families are a continued source of wellbeing for