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  • More kaupapa Māori services

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      Māori, who make up 17% of the population and have higher rates of mental distress than other population groups, have been advocating for equitable funding for Kaupapa Māori services for decades.   What needs to change? We want to see: Equitable investment in Kaupapa Māori services

  • Mental health and addiction system performance monitoring report | 2025 downloads

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    capacity to meet needs now and in the future. Note: The report was updated on 12 June 2025 to clarify reported suicide rates for 2023/24 are suspected suicides and overdose deaths are accidental overdoses. Downloads System Performance Monitoring Report June 2025 docx, 5.7 MB Download System

  • Access and Choice programme

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    Access and Choice Programme report 2025 downloads Download the full Access and Choice Programme: Monitoring report on progress and achievements at five years, Kaupapa Māori primary mental health services infographic, summary and literature scan. Report Access and Choice Programme report webinar On

  • Chief Executive Karen Orsborn opinion piece on coercive practices

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    available across the country. We don't need to wait for new legislation to see care approached differently and coercive practices reduced. Coercive practices include: community treatment orders, where a person may be medicated without consent and have their freedom of movement curtailed; and

  • Improving crisis responses across Aotearoa New Zealand webinar

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    , Director, Take Notice Dr Leeanne Fisher, National Chief Mental Health and Addiction, Heath New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora The session was chaired by Dr Barbara Disley, Te Hiringa Mahara board member. This webinar was the third in a series we have run covering the Commission's work programme examining

  • Assessment of progress - implementation of Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga recommendations downloads

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    Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission has legal functions and powers, including the mandate to make recommendations. With any recommendations we make, we are committed to following up on progress towards and assessing achievement of them. This public accountability mechanism

  • Covid-19 Insights

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    Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission has produced eight short reports during 2022 and 2023 to add our collective understanding of the wellbeing impacts of the pandemic and to provide key insights on wellbeing areas or populations of focus.     Wellbeing impacts of

  • Call for a National Mental Health Crisis System

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    system either supports someone or fails them. It’s that important.”  “We need to build a system that supports people when and where they need it. The current system doesn’t always work well for Māori, young people or those living rurally in particular,” said Karen Orsborn, Chief Executive of Te

  • Wellbeing

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    This report and infographic on the state of wellbeing, and priorities to support greater wellbeing for Pacific peoples in Aotearoa, was published in May 2024. Assessment of youth and rangatahi wellbeing and access to services infographic This quantitative assessment of mental health and wellbeing

  • Governance

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    Commission.   Over the past few years Barbara has been a Gateway Reviewer for the New Zealand Treasury.  She is Chair of the Global Leaders Exchange for mental health and disability. She has a doctorate in education from Macquarie University Sydney and in 2011 was made an Officer of the