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  • Time called on compulsory community mental health treatment

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    Orders report documents how tāngata whaiora, whānau and family, and Māori feel marginalised in processes that determine what treatment they receive.  “The use of compulsory community treatment orders is a practice from mental health that is out of step with human rights and current approaches to

  • Urupare mōrearea: Crisis responses monitoring report | 2025 downloads

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    shows that current crisis services are hard to navigate, fragmented and patchy, and people don’t always get the help they need.  A robust crisis response approach is at the heart of an effective mental health and addiction system and getting that right, will have ripple effects on other parts of the

  • Other documents

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    ;  In June 2023 we surveyed a group of key stakeholders inclusive of Māori, tāngata whaiora (people seeking wellness), whānau, family, supporters, and priority populations, to get feedback on how effectively we engage, and how we can improve.  Te Hiringa Mahara annual engagement survey summary report 2023 [PDF, 290 KB] Te Hiringa Mahara annual engagement survey summary report 2023 [DOCX, 340 KB]  

  • Youth wellbeing insights

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    rangatahi Māori and young people, it reflects the expressed concerns of young people over the last five years. To lift rangatahi Māori and young peoples’ wellbeing, we need to address the barriers they have identified, with the participation of rangatahi Māori and young people in all decisions that affect

  • COVID-19 learnings can support communities recovering from Cyclone Gabrielle

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    Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic can help support the mental health and wellbeing of communities recovering from Cyclone Gabrielle. This is according to today’s Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report,  Supporting wellbeing after a crisis .&nbsp

  • Mental Health Bill

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    community treatment particularly for Māori and for Pacific people. The number of Māori subject to community orders is increasing at a faster rate by 13.0 percent from 2018 to 2020/21 compared with 5.8 percent for non-Māori, non-Pacific peoples. In the Bill’s current form, the implementation of the

  • Unicef report highlights Aotearoa New Zealand's low ranking for child and youth mental health and wellbeing

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    are failing to address well-established high rates of suicide and mental distress among our young people as a nation. There is overwhelming evidence to show that psychological distress and mental wellbeing for young people is declining over time. New Zealand’s high suicide rates was one of the

  • Advancing lived experience mental health and wellbeing

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    with lived experience are included across the full range of reports we have released.  In our series of insights reports on the impact of Covid-19 on communities’ wellbeing, this paper discusses how the pandemic impacted the wellbeing of people with lived experience of mental distress. See our COVID

  • Wellbeing outcomes for people who interact with mental health and addiction services

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    discrimination compared to people who don’t interact with services. There is also lower access to protective factors such as social connection. For Māori, connection to culture and whānau continue to be  critical enablers for improved wellbeing outcomes. Inequities in a broad range of outcomes are

  • Te Hiringa Mahara to continue to advocate for young people after Oranga Tamariki Bill passes third reading

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    The Oversight of Oranga Tamariki System and Children and Young People’s Commission Bill, intended to strengthen the oversight of Oranga Tamariki and improve the care and support provided to young people in care, has passed its third reading in Parliament. Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and