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Published: June 2026

Nau mai, haere mai | Welcome Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission is a kaitiaki of mental health and wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand. We were established as a result of He Ara Oranga, the 2018 inquiry into mental health and addiction, as an independent Crown entity at arms

Published: February 2024

basic details about you such as your age group. These details will help us analyse data for our priority populations. There are also three privacy and consent questions so you can tell us what you would like us to do with your data. What will the organisation do with the online form results? What

Published: 3 April, 2025

programme report downloads Downloads Access and Choice programme report - April 2025 pdf, 9.3 MB Download Access and Choice programme report - April 2025 docx, 15 MB Download Access and Choice programme report summary - April 2025 pdf, 1.5 MB Download Access and Choice programme report summary

Published: 13 December, 2022

crises and supporting wellbeing in general. As a result, we call for greater recognition of the involvement of older people in their communities and inclusion of older people in decision making affecting them.   “It is important that our understanding of the pandemic, and our planning for the future recognises that older people have a variety of different experiences, needs, and contributions.” View the report

Published: January 2026

Briefing to the Incoming Minister February 2025 Following the changes to the Minister for Health and Minister for Youth in February 2025, Te Hiringa Mahara -- Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission provided the following briefings to the incoming Ministers. Read and download our Briefing to the

Published: 13 December, 2023

seeing is mental health services co-locating with other health and social supports to meet young people where they’re at. We have repeatedly been told that to get the best results these services should be co-designed with rangatahi and young people who have lived experience of mental distress.&nbsp

Published: July 2024

for their whānau (11) TK Notes 1. Results from the ‘What About Me’ survey indicate that 58% of 13 to 18-year-olds had good mental wellbeing in the period June to November, 2021. 2. Sutcliffe et al (2023) Rapid and unequal decline in adolescent mental health and well-being 2012–2019: Findings from

Published: 29 May, 2025

data over the five-year period to June 2024.   Downloads Addiction services data summary - May 2025 pdf, 2.8 MB Download Addiction services data summary May 2025 docx, 1.5 MB Download Service access data summary May 2025 pdf, 1.1 MB Download Service access data summary May 2025 docx, 1.1 MB Download Related works Find all of our service monitoring products released in 2025.

Published: 7 August, 2025

In July 2025 the Commission began operating under a refreshed organisational strategy that sets out how we work and what we will deliver over the next four years. Our approach is documented in our 2025-2029 Statement of Intent and 2025/26 Statement of Performance Expectations, along with a new

Published: February 2026

Wellbeing assessment: People who interact with mental health and addiction services | June 2025 Our wellbeing assessment shows people who interact with mental health and addiction services face significantly greater barriers to wellbeing compared to those who don’t. Mental health and addiction