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  • Mental Health Bill

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    respond to people in crisis. Once the ‘crisis’ moment in time is passed, people need clear pathways to access care and support they need to continue their recovery. These pathways must include community-based, peer-led, Kaupapa Māori services and social support to ensure access to safe and secure

  • System performance monitoring report - June 2025

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    present our first mental health and addiction system performance monitoring report.  The report identifies six key system shifts that, taken together, will transform the mental health and addiction system to achieve improved mental health and wellbeing outcomes and realise the vision set out in He

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

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    and social issue for Aotearoa New Zealand. Youth mental health is a complex interplay between individual, peer, family, system and macro factors. These include development in early environments, family dynamics, access to basic needs such as warm housing, adequate income, quality education, safe

  • Kaupapa Māori services report

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    and have higher rates of mental distress than other populations groups, have been advocating for equitable funding for kaupapa Māori services for decades. The proportion of tāngata whaiora Māori accessing Māori specialist mental health and addiction services has decreased over the last five-year

  • Te Huringa: Mental Health and Addiction Service Monitoring Reports 2022

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    that there has been little evidence of improvement in services or changes in wait times for specialist mental health services over the past five years. Wait times for young people to access specialist mental health services continue to be well below target and wait times for addiction services have

  • Lived experience

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    own, first-hand experience of distress, substance harm, harmful gambling, psychiatric diagnosis, addiction, using mental health or addiction supports or services, or experiencing barriers to accessing these supports and services when they are needed. Lived experience perspectives and knowledge is

  • Pressure on addiction treatment services highlighted

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    years there has been a drop in the number of people accessing treatment and support. The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission is concerned that people may not be able to access support when they need it,” said Sonya Russell, Director Mental Health and Addiction System Leadership.   In 2023

  • Voices report: accompanying report to Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga 2024

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    addiction workforce across Aotearoa New Zealand about access to services and options available.  In this report we give people the space to express their views. This includes comments on the urgency of system change which will ensure people get support where and when they need it.  There are

  • Covid-19 Insights Series - COVID-19 and safety in the home

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    , and grow more severe Women, children, and young people, particularly those who are Māori, or from the rainbow community, were particularly affected. Digital technology allowed online violence and abuse to be brought directly into people’s homes, but the digital divide made accessing help difficult for

  • Achieving equity of Pacific mental health and wellbeing outcomes

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    born here, that this dream has not been fully realised. Many Pacific peoples are finding Aotearoa less welcoming, less understanding, with less access to the things they need to live well – factors that impact mental health and wellbeing.  Across almost every measure of mental health and