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  • Youth services focus report

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    Māori services - residential alternatives to hospital based inpatient mental health care and short-term respite care. These services can provide appropriate treatment, and a supportive culture, where young people are safe and have hope for the future. Watch our New Zealand Sign Language summary

  • Improve wellbeing for rangatahi Māori and young people

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    across all districts, including Kaupapa Māori services, residential alternatives to hospital based inpatient mental health care and short-term respite care. Why is this important? Rates of distress for rangatahi Māori and young people have increased over the last ten years, and more needs to be done to

  • Access and Choice programme 2025 report downloads

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    Access and Choice services by Māori are included in a Kaupapa Māori primary mental health and addiction services infographic. In addition, a literature scan that explores approaches to primary mental health care in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally has also been published. Access and Choice

  • Collective effort will ensure Auditor General’s recommendations on mental health support for rangatahi and young people hit the mark

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    to youth mental health and addiction services so no matter where people live or what their ethnicity or gender is, people can get the help they need.  “We know that Māori, rainbow young people, and young people in state care have higher rates of distress yet can’t always get access to the care

  • Access and choice mental health programme stacks up

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    improved access to primary mental health care. It includes specific services to meet the needs of rangatahi and young people, Māori and Pacific peoples. This is in line with levels of need experienced by these population groups. One marker of need is rates of moderate levels psychological distress. This

  • Access and Choice programme

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    Wellbeing Budget. By 30 June 2026, Health NZ develop a plan to streamline pathways and ensure that Access and Choice Youth services and Infant, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (ICAMHS) work together to meet the needs of young people across the continuum of care, including shared care

  • Mental Health Bill

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    -making legislative framework for specialist mental health care. Regarding policy objectives, we welcome the Bill’s express purposes, principles underpinning limited use of “compulsory care”, and recognition of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. These important changes will partially address policy problems of

  • Chief Executive Karen Orsborn opinion piece on coercive practices

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    have no therapeutic value, and called for investment that will provide the choice of services needed to enhance safety for all. Karen Orsborn: Time to end coercive practices in mental health care OPINION: People in Aotearoa New Zealand experiencing significant mental distress continue to be subject

  • Reports to the Minister

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    Mental Health Care - August 2024 [228KB] Briefing on Oranga Tamariki Submission - July 2024 [496KB] Briefing on 2024-25 SPE - June 2024 [79KB] Briefing on meeting with Minister Doocey - June 2024 [470KB] Briefing on Kia Manawanui Leadership Insights Paper - May 2024 [390KB] Briefing on He Ara

  • Key mental health and addiction findings: NZ Health Survey 2023/24

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    addiction outcomes. Overall, the data shows an increase in psychological distress, and unmet need for mental health and addiction care. While hazardous drinking has decreased, problematic use of illicit substances has not. In general, findings show significant disparities for disabled adults and Māori and