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Published: November 2025

.   5. Invest in tāngata whaiora Māori to decide, design and deliver solutions and develop pathways to grow the lived experience workforce. 6.  Increase resourcing of Kaupapa Māori organisations and approaches. Prioritise community partnerships to design and deliver projects which address the

Published: November 2025

Amorangi to help public service agencies to meet their new responsibility under the Public Service Act 2020 and to lift and maintain the capability of their people to engage with Māori. Lifting Māori Crown relations capability means increasing competency areas and skills that will shift the Crown

Published: 4 July, 2024

the system. As well as being about accountability, the targets can help people working across the system to see where they can do better,” Mr Wano said. 

Published: 10 July, 2025

on future webinars.    About our Speakers Alexander El Amanni Addiction Practitioner and Counsellor, Te Hiringa Mahara board member Alexander was born in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He has living experience of using mental health services. He also has lived experience of youth and adult

Published: 3 April, 2025

The purpose of this report is to monitor the progress and achievements of the Access and Choice programmes over the five-year period from 2019/20 to 2023/24. The report finds that, after five years, the Access and Choice programme has substantially increased access to and choice in services for

Published: 18 February, 2025

Tīmata Te Haerenga service monitoring report. We found that this was not due to a decrease in need for specialist services, but largely due to significant workforce shortages and increasing complexity of people’s needs. In June 2024, the Commission made a set of recommendations for urgent action

Published: 23 October, 2024

. Alongside traditional inpatient care, there is a wide variety of peer-led, community-based, and Kaupapa Māori approaches we can draw on. Tāngata whaiora (people seeking wellness), have told us that an effective crisis response system has a number of important qualities. They want someone they can call

Published: 5 June, 2024

; We hosted a webinar to walk people through key findings from this report alongside the data behind these findings. We also shared the changes we want to see happen.    The report shows that service access has increased in some parts of the system but decreased in others. The new Access

Published: 29 May, 2025

New analysis shows a 10.5% reduction in the number of people accessing addiction treatment services over the last five years raising concerns about whether there is sufficient capacity to respond to an increase in demand.  “Recent reports show drug use has increased, yet over the past five

Published: 13 December, 2023

, kaupapa Māori services, compulsory community treatment orders and the peer support workforce. A dashboard has been developed to ensure data is more easily accessible See: www.mwhc.govt.nz/dashboard    Taking stock of the lessons we can take from the COVID-19 pandemic response was a focus