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Published: 4 November, 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission, is calling for a cohesive national mental health crisis response system by June 2027. “A highly effective crisis response system is at the heart of mental health and addiction services. When people are in crisis it is often where the

Published: 4 November, 2025

effective crisis response systems, focused on our recently released monitoring report which calls for the development of a nationally cohesive approach to crisis responses. Watch the webinar exploring effective crisis response models based on our recently released Crisis response literature scan held on 24 September 2025. Get a copy of the report: Urupare mōrearea: Crisis Responses monitoring report  

Published: December 2025

. Having a plan to grow the workforce and address workforce shortages, improve prevalence information, and create better data systems will provide a solid foundation for enabling system changes that are most effective in improving access and addressing gaps to mental health and addiction services.   &nbsp

Published: 5 November, 2025

see access to peer services is being expanded”. The report released yesterday by Te Hiringa Mahara – Ururpare mōrearea: Crisis responses monitoring report – shows people seeking help and their whānau find current crisis services hard to navigate. We are calling for a nationally cohesive system to be

Published: 3 December, 2025

the delivery of effective acute community options tailored to meet the needs of rangatahi and youth by June 2025. Health NZ develops a mental health and addiction data plan by June 2025 that ensures information systems are integrated and enables collection of quality and timely data. Government

Published: 2 October, 2025

of suicide and self-harm measures that will be incorporated into the Commission’s ongoing independent monitoring and reporting. Five high level ‘outcome’ measures will be included in our annual system performance monitoring. Monitoring data we draw on will be available from late 2025 and will be

Published: 26 August, 2025

are timely, non-coercive, culturally safe, and connected to wider systems of care, ensuring tāngata whaiora and whānau receive the right support at the right time. This literature scan forms part the ongoing Te Hiringa Mahara work programme examining effective crisis response systems. We will be

Published: November 2025

Download Leadership as a mental wellbeing system enabler report Read the full Leadership as a mental wellbeing system enabler report Leadership as a mental wellbeing system enabler: Insights on progress toward Kia Manawanui report focuses on one aspect of the ‘long-term pathway’ to transform

Published: July 2024

and addiction system. These frameworks are designed to work together, acknowledging the critical contribution of the mental health and addiction system to achieving broader wellbeing outcomes by providing services and support where needed. In our report Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey has Begun , we use He

Published: 4 July, 2024

The announcement of targets to address wait times and workforce pressures across the mental health and addiction system has been welcomed by Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. “Access to appropriate services when and where they are needed is very important to people seeking