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Published: 7 August, 2025

In July 2025, Te Hiringa Mahara began operating under a refreshed organisational strategy that sets out how we work and what we will deliver over the next four years.

Published: 23 October, 2024

There is huge potential for more peer-led, community-based and Kaupapa Māori, services to support people experiencing acute distress. This article summaries findings form our Acute options for mental health care insights paper, published in August 2024.

Published: 30 September, 2024

Funding of a new Child and Youth Mental Health and Addiction Prevalence survey was welcomed by Te Hiringa Mahara. The survey is keeping with a recommendation we made to first survey rangatahi and young people, before extending a prevalence study to the wider population.

Published: 11 June, 2025

The System Performance Monitoring Report released by Te Hiringa Mahara outlines progress toward improving mental health and wellbeing outcomes for New Zealanders and shows the need to speed up much needed improvements across the system.

Published: 30 June, 2022

The most important terms in He Ara Āwhina are explained here, along with complex terms that are not ‘everyday language’.

Published: 5 December, 2024

Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission’s Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2024 is now publicly available.

Published: 1 November, 2023

to seek help. This could be through a health service, online, calling a helpline, or other service. We will use the information we collected to advocate for changes to the mental health and addiction system in Aotearoa.  Keep an eye out for our mental health and addiction service monitoring

Published: 13 December, 2023

discrimination to an increasingly online world. These impact on young people’s ability to feel hopeful about their futures.  Yet, recently released performance measures for Te Whatu Ora | Health NZ show a concerning increase in waiting times for young people to access specialist mental health services

Published: 5 February, 2023

to normal' and the need for support has not gone away. It is also important to recognise that rural communities are not one monolithic group, and that rural issues disproportionately affect Māori. We call for greater understanding of and research into the diverse needs and experiences of rural

Published: 1 December, 2022

December 2022 - Our second report in the COVID-19 insights series shows that older people contributed greatly through the pandemic, despite often facing worse impacts of the pandemic.