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  • COVID-19 restrictions impact family violence and wellbeing, empowered communities key to supporting safety at home

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    made accessing help difficult for some communities, digital technology also allowed online violence and abuse to be brought directly into people’s homes. While social media was useful to mitigate physical isolation and enhance social connectedness, experiences of digital harm and violence skyrocketed

  • Board Chair Hayden Wano receives New Year Honour for services to Māori health

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    important role in the current transformation of the health system. As kaitiaki (guardian) of mental health and wellbeing, Te Hiringa Mahara works to ensure the voices of Māori and tāngata whaiora (people with lived experience of distress and addiction, substance, or gambling harm) can be heard and

  • Broader focus on wellbeing needed to understand COVID-19 impacts

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    A narrow focus on mental health may prevent us from understanding the broader wellbeing impacts of COVID-19 in Aotearoa, Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission - has found in its first report on the impact of the pandemic on wellbeing. “For people to flourish and experience

  • More action needed to address mental health and addiction service challenges

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    to experience long waiting times to access specialist services. Our young people deserve better,” says Te Hiringa Mahara Board Chair Hayden Wano. “The workforce has grown for specialist adult mental health and addiction services over the last five years, but workforce vacancies have doubled. We want

  • Relationships and engagements

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    relationships internally and externally with Māori. To achieve this, our engagement approaches will reflect the organisational establishment and growth, along with growing relationships with iwi ahi kā.  We will then extend from there to recognise other Māori system and service leadership forums

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

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    digital and online environments and navigating a rapidly changing world to name a few. Our 2024 assessment of youth mental health and wellbeing paints a picture of a system that continues to marginalise young people, especially young people with lived experience of mental distress and addiction. It

  • Achieving equity of Pacific mental health and wellbeing outcomes

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    along with engagement with Pacific communities.   Pacific community leaders told us that the ‘Pacific dream’ is about thriving Pacific families in Aotearoa. However, it is clear from our assessment of the data and experience of Pacific people we spoke to, both for migrants and generations

  • Te Hiringa Mahara welcomes Health Quality and Safety Commission report on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 on Aotearoa

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    , lived experience, peer, and community support will be needed. “Looking beyond the findings of the Commission’s report, we know that improved services alone will not be enough to address the mental health and wellbeing impacts of the pandemic. A range of factors affect people’s mental health and

  • Te Huringa Tuarua 2023 webinar series

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    as three focus reports on kaupapa Māori services, lived experience of Compulsory Community Treatment Orders and admission of young people to adult inpatient services. We also released a report on the peer support workforce. In our webinar series, we focused on: Lived experiences of Compulsory

  • Wāhanga tautuhi takirua / Co-define phase

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    country's mental health and wellbeing. To develop the He ara Oranga framework, the Inital Commission sought participation from people across Aotearoa including Māori, Pacific people, and people with lived experience of mental health and addiction. Outcomes need to be what truly improves people’s wellbeing