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Congratulations to Taimi Allan on new role as SA Mental Health Commissioner
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We extend warm congratulations to board member Taimi Allan who has been appointed as Mental Health Commissioner of South Australia. The SA Commissioner plays a significant leadership role working to strengthen the mental wellbeing of South Australians. This is a role that Taimi is very
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Karen Orsborn appointed as Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Chief Executive
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Commission set to move forward on advancing Aotearoa’s wellbeing agenda The Chair of the Commission Board, Hayden Wano, has today announced the appointment of its new Tumu Whakarae - Chief Executive for the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. Karen Orsborn steps into the Chief Executive role
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More investment needed for kaupapa Māori mental health and addiction services
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More investment in kaupapa Māori mental health and addiction services is needed to ensure the support available meets the level of mental distress experienced by Māori. Despite funding increases over the past five years more needs to be done to achieve equitable funding. This is a
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More action needed to address mental health and addiction service challenges
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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
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Increasing service options for Māori webinar
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Watch our fourth recording in the Te Huringa Tuarua webinar series - 19 October 2023. Learn about the impacts of inequitable investment and what it will take to improve service options for Māori. Ākona ngā tukinga o ngā tōritenga haumi me te huarahi e anga ai tātou ki te whakapai ake i ngā
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Young people experiencing acute mental distress need age-appropriate care
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report - Admission of young people to adult inpatient mental health services. This report examines the trends in admitting young people (aged 12 to 17 years) to adult inpatient mental health services in Aotearoa and reflects on perspectives from young people, whānau and family who have
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Report signals progress of Government’s response to He Ara Oranga, the inquiry into mental health and addiction
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The Initial Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission has released a report, He Ara Oranga – Manuka takoto, kawea ake / Upholding the Wero Laid in He Ara Oranga , signalling progress of the Government’s response to He Ara Oranga, the inquiry into mental health and addiction
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Prioritising youth voices necessary to improve wellbeing
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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
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Advancing lived experience mental health and wellbeing
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a te ao Māori perspective and from a shared perspective. Our other key framework, He Ara Āwhina , enables us to monitor the mental health and addiction system, and is written from the perspective of tāngata whaiora and whānau - amplifying the most important voices. The feedback that we heard from
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COVID-19 restrictions impact family violence and wellbeing, empowered communities key to supporting safety at home
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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