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  • New Te Hiringa Mahara Board appointments welcomed

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    takes us up until 2029. We will continue to push strongly to ensure people who need support have access to appropriate services, and as well as tackling underlying factors that contribute to poor mental health.” The changes announced are:   Dr Barbara Disley, a current board member, has

  • Covid-19 Insights Series - Supporting wellbeing after a crisis

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    local social hubs, such as marae and libraries, are up and running, putting face-to-face support in place such as carer and social worker visits, opening schools, and ensuring the community services and volunteers that are reaching into communities are supported Supports, including access to mental

  • Te Huringa: Mental Health and Addiction Service Monitoring Reports 2022

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    that there has been little evidence of improvement in services or changes in wait times for specialist mental health services over the past five years. Wait times for young people to access specialist mental health services continue to be well below target and wait times for addiction services have

  • Lived experience

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    own, first-hand experience of distress, substance harm, harmful gambling, psychiatric diagnosis, addiction, using mental health or addiction supports or services, or experiencing barriers to accessing these supports and services when they are needed. Lived experience perspectives and knowledge is

  • COVID-19 restrictions impact family violence and wellbeing, empowered communities key to supporting safety at home

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    broad range of community-based organisations, including Whānau Ora providers, women’s refuges, and Māori wardens. “However, while government and community responses were and are valuable, more should be done to empower communities, provide a range of safe accessible supports, and monitor and research family and sexual violence.”

  • Covid-19 Insights Series - Media reporting of COVID-19

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    has focused on resources, namely access to services, supports and resources Distress and other impacts of the pandemic have frequently been normalised and universalised in media coverage. These are important factors, but this narrow view misses out other factors that we know are important to mental

  • Covid-19 Insights Series - Wellbeing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

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    exacerbated and amplified many existing inequities in mental health and wellbeing outcomes, and in accessing services and supports. In the face of challenges presented by the pandemic, iwi, hapū, and whānau Māori exercised rangatiratanga, providing practical support for themselves and others through the

  • More investment needed for kaupapa Māori mental health and addiction services

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    shed light on the challenges faced by Māori communities and emphasizes the urgent need for change.  “We want to see more funding allocation to follow the example set by the new Access and Choice programme. The government has committed to ensuring 20 per cent, or $35.5 million each year by 30 June

  • Kaupapa Māori services report

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    and have higher rates of mental distress than other populations groups, have been advocating for equitable funding for kaupapa Māori services for decades. The proportion of tāngata whaiora Māori accessing Māori specialist mental health and addiction services has decreased over the last five-year

  • The Initial Commission reporting

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    Mā Te Rongo Ake / Through Listening and Hearing The Initial Commission was responsible for monitoring and providing advice on progress of the Government’s system transformation response to He Ara Oranga. This included monitoring progress on the implementation of kaupapa Māori approaches. Mā Te