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Published: 4 November, 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission, is calling for a cohesive national mental health crisis response system by June 2027. “A highly effective crisis response system is at the heart of mental health and addiction services. When people are in crisis it is often where the

Published: 4 September, 2023

The Cross-Party Mental Health and Addictions Wellbeing Group have prioritised the mental health and wellbeing of rangatahi and young people in a new cross-party report. The report shows collective political support on this important topic. Te Hiringa Mahara welcomes recommendations in the&nbsp

Published: 15 May, 2023

and urgently ensure that there are real opportunities for young people to be involved in decisions that impact them. This is the heart of our call to action - Rangatahi Māori and young people must have a seat at every decision-making table where they can shape their own futures and their voices

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: 28 August, 2024

also includes key mental health and addiction initiatives from Budget 2020 to Budget 2022. Downloads Budget 2019 to Budget 2022 investment in mental health and addiction report pdf, 540 KB Download Budget 2019 to Budget 2022 investment in mental health and addiction report docx, 998 KB Download Budget 2019 to Budget 2022 investment in mental health and addiction infographic pdf, 596 KB Download

Published: July 2025

experience networks, organisations and people, and are grateful for the contributions that lived experience groups have made to our work so far. Some of the ways that tāngata whaiora and lived experience groups can be involved in our work include: meeting with us kanohi ki te kanohi (face to face) or online

Published: 2 October, 2025

of suicide and self-harm measures that will be incorporated into the Commission’s ongoing independent monitoring and reporting. Five high level ‘outcome’ measures will be included in our annual system performance monitoring. Monitoring data we draw on will be available from late 2025 and will be

Published: February 2026

Government’s priority Taking mental health seriously was allocated to each initiative and the expenditure on each of those initiatives for the four years from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2023. It describes each initiative in terms of what it set out to achieve and its status as of 30 June 2023. The report also includes key mental health and addiction initiatives from Budget 2020 to Budget 2022.

Published: March 2024

lived experience are included across the full range of reports we have released.  In our series of insights reports on the impact of Covid-19 on communities’ wellbeing, this paper discusses how the pandemic impacted the wellbeing of people with lived experience of mental distress. See our COVID

Published: 5 June, 2023

, and this included serious disruption to the ways they connect with family, community, church, and culture. However, throughout the worse periods of the pandemic, Pacific people drew on their connections to provide flexible and practical support to each other – support like trustworthy and