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  • Rural communities respond well to pandemic, despite challenges

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    The COVID-19 pandemic has added additional stress to the rural community, which itself faces different wellbeing challenges to those of urban Aotearoa. This is according to today’s Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report,  The impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing

  • Board Chair Hayden Wano receives New Year Honour for services to Māori health

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    Te Hiringa Mahara congratulates our Board Chair Hayden Wano on being made a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order in the New Year’s Honours List 2023, for his service to Māori health. The award reflects Mr Wano’s 40 years-plus health sector experience in mental health, community and medical

  • Our wellbeing outcome framework

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    in mental health and wellbeing. It is designed as one of the tools to shift the way the whole system is working towards a wellbeing approach. He Ara Oranga wellbeing outcomes framework sits alongside its partner framework, the He Ara Āwhina system monitoring framework that describes what an ideal

  • Access and choice for mental health and addiction services encouraging, but workforce challenges remain

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    Considerable progress has been made with the Access and Choice programme rollout over the last year, despite significant challenges for the primary care and mental health and addiction sectors in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is according to the second report on the programme by Te

  • Lived experience

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    Our commitment to lived experience We have promised to uphold a ‘nothing about us, without us’ approach and to work together to transform the mental health and addiction system. Meet our Lived Experience Advisors We currently have two Lived Experience Advisors who support connections with tāngata

  • Abuse in care report recognises life-long trauma

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    The release of the final report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into abuse in care marks a very important milestone for people who have experienced abuse. Following release of the the report Te Hiringa Mahara Chief Executive Karen Orsborn shared this statement.

  • Broader focus on wellbeing needed to understand COVID-19 impacts

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    A narrow focus on mental health may prevent us from understanding the broader wellbeing impacts of COVID-19 in Aotearoa, Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission - has found in its first report on the impact of the pandemic on wellbeing. “For people to flourish and experience

  • Focus on youth wellbeing more urgent than ever

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    More evidence of the state of New Zealand youth mental health — Youth and rangatahi wellbeing and access to services assessment — has been released today and shows that while most youth and rangatahi are doing well, there is a steady decline in youth wellbeing in comparison to older age groups more

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

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    There have been significant changes in access to mental health and addiction over the past five years a monitoring report released today by Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission shows. The new report, Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey Has Begun , provides the most up-to-date

  • Te Hiringa Mahara to continue to advocate for young people after Oranga Tamariki Bill passes third reading

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    The Oversight of Oranga Tamariki System and Children and Young People’s Commission Bill, intended to strengthen the oversight of Oranga Tamariki and improve the care and support provided to young people in care, has passed its third reading in Parliament. Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and