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  • Commission will provide system oversight of new mental wellbeing long-term pathway

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    improving outcomes for Māori, including community-led design of kaupapa Māori services that are by Māori, for Māori working with people with lived experience of mental distress and addiction to expand access to services and choice in support options so people can recover from mental distress and addiction

  • Mental health system still falling short for young people and Māori, new report shows

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    measure, only workforce is improving and ‘on track’. In practice, that means although access to services is improving overall, it is not improving fast enough for young people, who continue to face rising psychological distress and persistent gaps in age-appropriate support. “We are also seeing

  • 2024 mental health and addiction services monitoring – update webinar

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    and Choice programme in primary care has increased access and expanded options for people with mild to moderate mental health and addiction needs. However, access to specialist services has decreased, with people reporting challenges accessing these services. We look at the access challenges faced

  • Effectiveness of early intervention and secondary prevention supports for young people

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    .  There are many programmes and services in New Zealand and internationally that provide early intervention and secondary prevention, including Youth One Stop Shops and the Youth Access and Choice Programme.   These programmes and services are increasingly being designed specifically

  • Improve wellbeing for rangatahi Māori and young people

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    times than other age groups to access specialist mental health and addiction services. Rangatahi Māori and young people fare worse than adults on several determinants of wellbeing, such as adequate income and loneliness.    We are seeing improvements After increasing for four years

  • Mental health and addiction service use – what the data shows webinar

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    through the Access and Choice programme. The decrease in service use in parts of the system is unexpected given the public reports on increasing levels of distress. We presented the data behind these findings and related measures, along with the changes we want to see happen. We also talked about future

  • Mental health and addiction service monitoring 2026 downloads

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    Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission is legislated to monitor mental health and addiction services. Improved access to services contributes to ensuring mental health and addiction (MHA) services are meeting the needs of tāngata whaiora and their whānau (one of our strategic

  • The future of primary mental health care

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    paper. The paper documents the discussion which answered two provocative questions: What does the primary care landscape need to look like? How do we get there? This discussion followed the release in April 2025 of our final monitoring report on the Access and Choice programme. During development of

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

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    picture of the system available. More New Zealanders are accessing mental health or addiction support from a GP or other primary health provider. The Access and Choice programme, newly established in 2019/20, provided support to around 186,000 people in 2022/23. However, the number of people

  • More kaupapa Māori services

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    options for non-Māori. We are already seeing changes, but we need to see more Currently, Access and Choice allocates 20% of ringfenced funding for Kaupapa Māori services, which is heading in the right direction. Increases in future years for Kaupapa Māori services will contribute significantly towards