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Published: 16 June, 2026

Strategy 2026-2030, September 2025 pdf, 163 KB Download NZ Eating Issues, Eating Disorders, and Ngā Māuiui Kai Strategy submission, August 2025 pdf, 49 KB Download Healthy Futures Pae Ora Amendment Bill, August 2025 pdf, 1.7 MB Download Inquiry into the Harm Young New Zealanders Encounter Online, July

Published: 8 June, 2022

and wellbeing is to people and echo their calls for a continued focus on delivering tangible improvements.” The Commission welcomes the much-needed investment in primary and community care since 2019, the Budget 2022 investment in specialist mental health and addiction services

Published: June 2026

roadmap for a strong mental health system Support the mental health and wellbeing of young people We need to see: Improved access to mental health and addiction services for youth; MHA specialist services, youth Access and Choice services and acute community options. Online safety education rolled

Published: 31 July, 2023

. Jessica Stubbing, Research Fellow and Clinical Psychologist, Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures, discusses the importance of youth voice for improving our understanding of young people’s wellbeing. Ta’ase Vaoga (Sāmoa, Ngāpuhi, Te Ātihaunui-a-Pāpārangi), Rangatahi Insights Lead, Te Rourou, One

Published: 17 September, 2021

available to people who have been subject to conversion therapy. This will provide people with the support they may need to navigate the complex processes involved in seeking civil redress through the Human Rights Commission. Noting that research undertaken by rainbow communities shows that they

Published: 22 September, 2021

the urgent need for action. The Commission will provide insights and advice on what works well and bring people together to make it happen. Whānau and communities want to see things moving forward – the need at a local level is now. We will make sure that the need for mental health reform and advancing Aotearoa’s wellbeing agenda is kept front and centre across government,” says Hayden Wano.

Published: May 2026

happen to improve crisis responses in both the short term and the longer term.  Our key findings include: Crisis services are hard to navigate, fragmented and patchy, and many people don’t get the help they need. Fewer people have a recorded crisis activity, however, a higher proportion are urgent

Published: 14 November, 2019

  Chair of the Initial Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission presents at the Ministry of Health's forum on 'Enabling Wellbeing'. Check out the full presentation on the  Ministry's YouTube channel .

Published: 2 September, 2024

whakareretanga. Ko tōna mana me āna mahi huhua hei ranga wairua ki a Ngāi Māori katoa. Haere e te Kiingi Tūheitia, hoki atu koe ki ōu tīpuna moe ai.    Expressing our deepest condolences to the loss of King Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII.  Our deepest sympathies to all his whānau, his

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