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New primary mental health and addiction support provides a welcome expansion, but gaps remain – new report
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There have been significant changes in access to mental health and addiction over the past five years a monitoring report released today by Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission shows. The new report, Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey Has Begun , provides the most up-to-date
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Wāhanga tautuhi takirua / Co-define phase
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Over April and May 2020, the Initial Commission sought a range of views to start developing an outcomes framework for mental health and wellbeing. When they started this work, their aim was to ensure that everyone could have their say on how the system will monitor, measure and improve our
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Who we are
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government of the day. An Initial Commission was set-up in November 2019 to start on high priority projects as well as beginning establishment of the new organisation. The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Act 2020 was passed in June 2020, and we began to fulfil our new legislative functions
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Our brand story
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Launching the new commission On Wednesday, 14 April 2021, the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission held an event to acknowledge the establishment of the Commission, which officially opened its doors on Wednesday, 9 February 2021. Hon Andrew Little, Minister of Health, Hayden Wano, Chair of the
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Te Hiringa Mahara welcomes Health Quality and Safety Commission report on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 on Aotearoa
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Te Hiringa Mahara Chief Executive Karen Orsborn has welcomed today’s release of the second report of the Health Quality and Safety Commission (the Commission) on the impact of COVID-19 on health with its dedicated chapter on the impacts on people’s mental health and use of mental health
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Mental health and wellbeing must be a high priority in health system transformation
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We welcome the transformational approach taken in the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill, which passed its third reading yesterday. The Commission’s Chair Hayden Wano says the Government now has the means to ensure better mental health and wellbeing outcomes for future generations. “It is very good to
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International relationships
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Mental health and wellbeing is a global issue and Te Hiringa Mahara connects with commissions and other global entities. Te Hiringa Mahara is a member of the Australasian Joint Mental Health Commissioner Forum with the Australian national and state Commissions. Members of the forum are: National
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Independent Commission’s report highlights the importance of improving access and choice for mental health and addiction services in Aotearoa
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The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission (the Commission) has today released its independent report into the progress of the Access and Choice Programme being developed and implemented under the leadership of the Ministry of Health. The programme, developed in response to
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Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission supports legislation to ban conversion therapy
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Commission calls for the Justice Select Committee to listen carefully to the voices of rainbow communities The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission (the Commission) appeared in front of the Justice Select Committee yesterday to speak to its written submission on the Conversion
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Meet our Lived Experience Advisors
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Experience at the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. She is an enthusiastic advocate of the restorative power of being ourselves and has a passion for peer support and the power of lived experience to drive transformation. She joined the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission in 2024 and has held lived experience leadership, mentoring, and peer support roles prior to this. Contact To contact Saskia, please email kiaora@mhwc.govt.nz