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Published: July 2025

Our vision for wellbeing for all people in Aotearoa is: tū tangata mauri ora, thriving together.

Published: June 2025

Updated: April 2025

Published: 25 June, 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara's wellbeing assessment reveals people who interact with mental health and addiction services face significantly greater barriers to wellbeing across economic, social and cultural indicators compared to the general population.

Published: July 2025

discrimination compared to people who don’t interact with services. There is also lower access to protective factors such as social connection. For Māori, connection to culture and whānau continue to be  critical enablers for improved wellbeing outcomes. Inequities in a broad range of outcomes are

Published: 5 June, 2024

from July 2018 to June 2023. We have drawn from a broad range of quantitative service performance data and what we heard from many perspectives in the mental health and addiction sector and communities. Published: June 2024.  Download Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey Has Begun infographic pdf, 368 KB Download

Published: June 2025

This dashboard pulls together data about many aspects of New Zealand’s mental health and addiction services. This includes a wide range of measures covering primary and specialist services, including community and inpatient services. The dashboard is available for use by anyone interested in

Published: November 2023

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Published: 20 May, 2025

Dr Ella Cullen reflects on our country’s poor ranking in a new report from Unicef that provides critical insight into child wellbeing in the world’s wealthier countries between 2018-2022.

Published: 1 October, 2020

We created a framework called He Ara Āwhina, which means pathways to support. He Ara Āwhina was published 30 June 2022 and describes what an ideal mental health and addiction system looks like. The process for developing this framework is described on this page.

Published: 9 April, 2025

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