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Unicef report highlights Aotearoa New Zealand's low ranking for child and youth mental health and wellbeing
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Gains – Child Wellbeing at Risk in an Unpredictable World . Recent findings from the new UNICEF report show worsening youth mental health in Aotearoa New Zealand. This is not new information but seeing how we measure up internationally clearly tells us that we are simply not doing enough. We
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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
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Our commitment to lived experience
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We have promised to uphold a ‘nothing about us, without us’ approach and to work together to improve wellbeing and transform the mental health and addiction system. We monitor lived experience leadership and participation across the system and advocate for improvement. Our Lived Experience Position
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Refreshed strategic direction – July 2025
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In July 2025 the Commission began operating under a refreshed organisational strategy that sets out how we work and what we will deliver over the next four years. Our approach is documented in our 2025-2029 Statement of Intent and 2025/26 Statement of Performance Expectations, along with a new
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Webinar: achieving equitable wellbeing outcomes for tāngata whaiora
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-for-profits, and wider government. For more than 30 years, he has researched and published extensively in the area of Māori health, with a specialist interest in health outcome measurement (psychometrics), Māori mental health, longitudinal research, public health and health service delivery. He is currently leading New Zealand’s largest dedicated programme of Māori mental health research – Te Aratiatia ki te Hauora.
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Rolling out more options for crisis care
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and carers, and other priority populations to ensure services meet their needs and preferences. We will continue to advocate for choice at all levels of the system - through policy and government resourcing, commissioning, and service delivery. By promoting choice, we are better able to ensure tāngata whaiora are supported in ways that work for them and support their recovery. Download: Acute options for mental health care insights paper
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Achieving equity of Pacific mental health and wellbeing outcomes
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housing and better mental health Pacific communities and organisations are doing the mahi, but system support is needed Enabling communities to deliver on better wellbeing outcomes works Wrap around support to address wider wellbeing will achieve improved Pacific mental health outcomes By Pacific
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Ake, ake, ake – A Forever Language
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ao Māori including learning te reo Māori at kura kaupapa is a source of strength and achievement for young Māori learners. Fewer Māori achieved qualifications at NCEA level 2 or above but NCEA level 2 achievement was higher for Māori who attended kura kaupapa. Across all ethnicities and school types, NCEA level 2 achievement trended downwards in 2021 and 2022.
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Where did the $1.9 billion Wellbeing Budget go?
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is important to clear up any public misunderstanding about an investment of this size.” “It’s part of our monitoring role to bring transparency to investment decisions. Without it, people can lose confidence in the system’s ability to deliver.” “Going forward, we need to ensure allocation of
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Holding a mirror up to the mental health and addiction system
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people expect.” “Peer support services for example have seen an increase since 2018 with greater investment in the peer and lived experience workforce. There has also been an increase in kaupapa Māori specialist mental health and addiction services since 2018, but this has yet to reach