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  • New Mental Health Bill - are we there yet?

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    all parties in Parliament – agreed on recommendations for amendments to the Bill. The Select Committee has recommended some changes that strengthen the proposed legislation. Recommended improvements include that ‘advance directives’ and acknowledgement of the ‘dignity of risk’ are added to the guiding

  • New prevalence study will provide vital data

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    stage of investment for GUiNZ will provide information about the participants as they transition through puberty, adolescence, school, and into adulthood and work. Together these two sources of data will offer rich insights about causality of mental health but also broader wellbeing for children

  • Access and Choice programme

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    development funding – the first three years Read our Supplementary paper: Access and Choice Programme workforce development funding – the first three years Our independent reports on the Access and Choice programme monitor progress on improving access and choice for mental health and addiction

  • Lived experiences of Compulsory Community Treatment Orders under the Mental Health Act (1992) webinar

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    Kupenga Net Trust in 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 Association of Mental Health Services Consumer Advisors (NAMHSCA) prior to joining Te Hiringa Mahara in 2022.

  • Mental health and addiction service monitoring

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    show what is working well and what isn’t in mental health and addiction services, how this has changed over time, and advocate for improvements. Youth services focus report - Admission of young people to adult inpatient mental health services | Pūrongo arotahi ratonga taiohi - Te whakauru i ngā

  • Karen Orsborn: Full impact of COVID-19 on mental health yet to be seen

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    , and people will continue to be affected for some time to come. Aotearoa New Zealand's responses to it will continue to evolve. An essential part of the early response was to isolate people and family units. This is the prudent action when dealing with an infectious disease and kept many people in

  • He Ara Āwhina development journey

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    and Pacific communities. People told us: Support starts and continues with people and communities, not services. The former Mental Health Commissioner’s framework was viewed as being too narrow but was something that could be refined and built upon. The voices of Māori and tāngata whaiora are crucial

  • Annual Report 2022/23 highlights

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    annual report available for download.    A big emphasis in the last year has been on solidifying our monitoring approach and laying the foundation for our advocacy. We published Te Huringa Tuarua, a detailed report on services, along with four insights papers exploring youth services

  • Mental Health Bill

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    Download Mental Health Bill submission pdf, 284 KB Since our formation Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission has contributed to policy development to ensure Aotearoa New Zealand has mental health law based on human rights and eliminates coercive practices or reduces them to the

  • Chief Executive Karen Orsborn opinion piece on coercive practices

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    were 4.1 times more likely than non-Māori (excluding Pacific people) to be subject to a community treatment order, 3.5 times more likely to be subject to an inpatient treatment order, and 5.4 times more likely to be subjected to solitary confinement in adult inpatient services than non-Māori