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  • Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission supports legislation to ban conversion therapy

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    Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill (the Bill). Speaking on behalf of the Commission, Board member Kevin Hague, noted the Commission’s support for the Bill’s aim to ban conversion practices. “The Commission welcomes the introduction of this bill to prohibit conversion practices and supports its general

  • Governance

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    , insights, and expertise to inform Board discussions and decision-making. Hayden Wano, Chair Hayden Wano, Chair. Hayden is of Te Atiawa, Taranaki, and Ngāti Awa descent and has over 30 years experience in senior health management. He is the former CEO of Tui Ora Limited, a position he held for

  • Mental health and addiction targets welcomed

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    help and their whānau. These targets will help focus effort on making sure services are available,” says Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Board chair Hayden Wano. “In our briefing to incoming Ministers we made a strong case for mental health and addiction targets to be developed, so it is

  • Our commitment to lived experience

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    , methodologies, practices, lived experience roles, social movements, and leadership Prioritise our projects and focus areas based on their importance to people with lived experience. Read and download our Lived Experience Position Statement Lived Experience Position Statement (A3 poster), July 2025 (PDF

  • 2025 monitoring

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    about many aspects of Aotearoa New Zealand’s mental health and addiction system. Service monitoring data summaries | May 2025 Two new data summaries provide updated data on access and trends for mental health and addiction services, with the second one focused on addiction specialist services

  • The Access and Choice Programme: Report on the first three years 2022

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    This report and its accompanying Improving access and choice for youth report, looks at the first three years of the programme rollout since funds were allocated to the priority initiative in the 2019 Wellbeing Budget. Published in November 2022. These reports provide us with an opportunity to see

  • Mental health and addiction system

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    approach and initial findings was released in June 2025. Access and choice Our independent reports on the Access and Choice Programme monitors progress providing support through primary care services. Updated April 2025. Acute options for mental health care insights paper This new insights report

  • Access and choice mental health programme stacks up

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    documents progress establishing the programme, with recommendations on how to ensure it reaches its full potential. “The introduction of the Access and Choice programme has filled gap in support and has substantially increased access for people seeking help for mild to moderate mental health

  • Te Huringa Tuarua: Mental Health and Addiction Service Monitoring Reports 2023

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    Access and Choice programme Workforce vacancies in specialist adult mental health and addiction services have doubled between 2018 and 2022, and we want to see a clear strategy and roadmap to address growing workforce shortages Coercive practices continue to be widely used, particularly for Māori and

  • Webinar: achieving equitable wellbeing outcomes for tāngata whaiora

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    addiction services; child, youth, and family custody; and the youth and adult justice systems and corrections processes. Alexander has been working in the mental health and addiction sector since 2009. He graduated with a Master of Health Practice Honours degree in 2021. He is currently working