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Published: 3 December, 2025

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

Published: November 2025

wellbeing, Pacific people face greater challenges than the rest of the population. The evidence shows Pacific people are experiencing inequities in mental health outcomes. Despite these challenges, however, Pacific peoples rate their family wellbeing higher than non-Pacific people.   We heard

Published: 5 November, 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission welcomes investment in crisis response services announced today by Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey. The substantial funding package will improve access to support for people in mental health and substance use crisis. The announcement

Published: 27 January, 2022

. “We know that populations such as Māori and Pacific peoples regularly experience exclusion and racism. We know that these are factors in their mental health challenges. Vaccination is a wellbeing issue, and if these groups are again finding themselves outside the mainstream on vaccination and more

Published: 15 May, 2023

The mental health and wellbeing of rangatahi Māori and young people is one of the most important issues we can focus on today. We only need to acknowledge increasing levels of distress, and the many well-known barriers to wellbeing, to understand that much more needs to be done to support young

Published: January 2026

a common understanding of strengths, challenges and opportunities facing rangatahi and young people. This infographic primarily presents findings from our quantitative assessment of mental health and wellbeing among young people and rangatahi Māori, using the He Ara Oranga framework . It also

Published: 22 March, 2022

investment in mental health and addiction services through the 2019 Wellbeing Budget, improvements in services have not materialised as we had hoped for over this time,” says Commission Board Chair Hayden Wano. “We commend the investment in additional, and much needed, primary and community services, but

Published: 16 August, 2023

well qualified to step into.    Taimi joined the Te Hiringa Mahara board at its inception in February 2021. She has brought deep expertise and connection with lived experience perspectives and a broad knowledge of the mental health and wellbeing system. Taimi has played an active role

Published: 22 March, 2022

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

Published: August 2025

Experience at the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. She is an enthusiastic advocate of the restorative power of being ourselves and has a passion for peer support and the power of lived experience to drive transformation. She joined the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission in 2024 and has held