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  • Karen Orsborn appointed as Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Chief Executive

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    also chaired the Initial Commission Board and says Karen brought focus and energy to the Initial Commission’s work programme, quickly building a strong, focused team and making stuff happen. “The Board has great confidence that by maintaining leadership continuity, Karen’s understanding of the history

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

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    higher level of care get the support they need,” says Karen Orsborn, chief executive of Te Hiringa Mahara. “It is a real step forward that a significant number of people are getting early access to help. At the same time, we continue to hear that demand is increasing and people are reporting

  • Put an end to CCTOs

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    . Why is this important? People in Aotearoa experiencing significant mental distress continue to be subject to coercive practices despite evidence there is no therapeutic value.  Practices, like compulsory community treatment orders or seclusion, are enabled by: outdated mental health law (the Mental

  • Speaking up about the Pae Ora amendment bill

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    ) Amendment Bill are currently being considered by the Health Select Committee. Read our submission (PDF 175 KB) When the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill was introduced by the previous government in October 2021, we advocated for the inclusion of a mental health and addiction strategy under the legislation

  • Have your say on a service-level monitoring framework for mental health and addiction

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    The consultation phase to provide feedback on the development of a framework to monitor mental health services and addiction services is now closed. The Initial Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission provided people with an opportunity to have their say on the He Ara Āwhina service-level monitoring

  • Collective effort will ensure Auditor General’s recommendations on mental health support for rangatahi and young people hit the mark

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    they need. We need to see this change,” Ms Orsborn said.  The findings of the Auditor General mirror conclusions we have reached, and those of the Cross-Party Mental Health and Addiction Wellbeing Group whose report Under One Umbrella, released in September 2023, focused on integrated mental

  • Increasing service options for Māori webinar

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     Te Tairāwhiti as an adult peer support/advocacy worker, Consumer Leader, and Mataora. Guy was privileged to carry the voices of whānau to local, regional, and national forums where he was a Co-Chair of Ngā Hau e Whā (National Consumer Advocacy Group) and become a member of the National

  • Report signals progress of Government’s response to He Ara Oranga, the inquiry into mental health and addiction

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    . Chair of the Initial Commission, Mr Hayden Wano, says that this report provides a check-in on areas that are progressing and offers advice for Government to consider in these early days of system transformation. “We were established to hold the government – and the system – to account for the

  • The Initial Commission reporting

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    four initial priority areas, and offered advice to consider in the early days of system transformation: Establishing Te Hiringa Mahara Publishing the suicide prevention strategy and establishing a Suicide Prevention Office Repealing and replacing the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and

  • Co-development phase - public consultation feedback

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    The He Ara Āwhina co-development phase ran from March 2021 to June 2022. A draft version of He Ara Āwhina went out for public consultation for six weeks from 8 March to 19 April 2022. We supported many ways for people to share feedback such as via email, LinkedIn, mail, voice message