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Published: July 2025

Connecting with lived experience communities and tāngata whaiora is crucial if we are going to do our job well – monitoring the mental health and addiction system, contributing to equitable wellbeing for all, and advocating for the changes needed.

Published: 26 August, 2025

This crisis response literature scan reviews international and Aotearoa evidence on crisis responses and provides insight into what crisis responses are most effective.

Published: November 2025

Published May 2024.

Published: August 2025

Learn more about who we are and what we do at Te Hiringa Mahara.

Published: November 2025

Published June 2024.

Published: November 2023

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Published: 4 July, 2024

The announcement of targets to address wait times and workforce pressures across the mental health and addiction system has been welcomed by Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission.

Published: 1 October, 2020

We created a framework called He Ara Āwhina, which means pathways to support. He Ara Āwhina was published 30 June 2022 and describes what an ideal mental health and addiction system looks like. The process for developing this framework is described on this page.

Published: August 2025

We have promised to uphold a ‘nothing about us, without us’ approach and to work together to improve wellbeing transform the mental health and addiction system. Our Lived Experience Position Statement outlines what we will do to uphold these commitments to lived experience communities.

Published: 10 July, 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara hosted a webinar outlining findings from our 2025 Assessment of wellbeing for people who interact with mental health and addiction services.