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Published: 27 June, 2023

‘mental disorder’ in any year. However only 11 per cent of current mental health and addiction expenditure is on Kaupapa services,” says Te Hiringa Mahara Board Chair Hayden Wano.  “Māori make up 17 per cent of the population and have higher levels of mental distress than other population

Published: April 2026

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. These changes in service use are due to the increasing complexity of needs in those accessing specialist

Published: 28 August, 2024

June 2023. Of the unspent $163.8 million, almost $62 million was set aside for capital works. “The vast majority of the $1.9 billion investment has been spent and we can now show where the money went,” said Karen Orsborn, Chief Executive. “We have documented where the money went because we thought it

Published: 20 January, 2024

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

Published: February 2026

services in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Access and Choice programme, rolled out from 2019/20 over five years, has a particular focus on people with mild-to-moderate mental health and addiction needs. It aims to improve access to primary mental health, wellbeing, and addiction services, including in Kaupapa

Published: 30 September, 2024

that drive mental health outcomes and prevent mental distress. For example, we know from our own assessment that a strong cultural identity for young Māori is an important enabler of better mental health outcomes. Given this, we are also heartened to see a funding announcement for further funding of

Published: January 2026

Interim Chair of the National Health Board, Chair of the former Taranaki District Health Board, and Chair of the Health Sponsorship Council. He is a former Director of TSB and recently retired as Chair of TSB Community Trust and Chair of TSB Group Ltd. Hayden is currently a Board member of both the

Published: 3 April, 2025

provides an overview of the implementation of Access and Choice,  primary mental health care programme.  The report finds that the Access and Choice programme has increased the access to and choice in services for people with mild to moderate mental health and addiction needs. This has

Published: 27 January, 2022

As New Zealand faces community transmission of the Omicron variant, too many people who experience mental distress or addictions remain unvaccinated. The total New Zealand vaccination rates are now very high, with over one million people boosted and 93% of the eligible population double vaccinated

Published: August 2025

We currently have two Lived Experience Advisors whose job is to support connections with tāngata whaiora and lived experience communities and provide advice on all of the work of Te Hiringa Mahara.  Saskia Ymker Saskia Ymker (she/her) is Kaitohu Mātāmua Wheako Ora | Principal Advisor Lived