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Published: December 2025

The objective of Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission in performing its functions and exercising its powers, under the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Act 2020, is to contribute to better and equitable mental health and wellbeing outcomes for people in Aotearoa New

Published: 28 October, 2021

This report found that the programme has put much-needed investment into primary and community care in line with many of the recommendations in He Ara Oranga: Report of the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction , enabling important services to be provided. The overall programme is on

Published: 25 February, 2026

and Pacific adults. Synthesising the health survey data is part the role of Te Hiringa Mahara as  thought leaders in the system for mental health and wellbeing. Downloads Mental health and substance data summary: Key findings from the NZ health Survey 2024/2025 pdf, 3.3 MB Download Mental health and substance data summary: Key findings from the NZ health Survey 2024/2025 docx, 3.8 MB Download

Published: January 2026

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Published: February 2024

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Published: 31 May, 2023

This mental health and addiction service monitoring report is the main report that monitors across the breadth of national-level data. It aims to show what is working well and what isn’t in mental health and addiction services, how this has changed over time, and advocate for improvements. This

Published: 4 September, 2023

The Cross-Party Mental Health and Addictions Wellbeing Group have prioritised the mental health and wellbeing of rangatahi and young people in a new cross-party report. The report shows collective political support on this important topic. Te Hiringa Mahara welcomes recommendations in the&nbsp

Published: 31 May, 2023

More people are accessing new services through the Access and Choice programme, however, there has been a decrease in people accessing specialist mental health and addiction services and other primary mental health services, and little or no change on other measures of service quality. This is

Published: 15 May, 2023

The mental health and wellbeing of rangatahi Māori and young people is one of the most important issues we can focus on today. We only need to acknowledge increasing levels of distress, and the many well-known barriers to wellbeing, to understand that much more needs to be done to support young

Published: 9 March, 2023

During the 2020 national lockdown, reports of family violence increased considerably, but the New Zealand Police and advocacy groups were concerned that this was still under-reported. Women, children, rangatahi Māori, disabled people and rainbow youth were particularly affected. This is according