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  • Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission welcomes Budget 2022 investment in specialist mental health and addiction services

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    move in the right direction towards addressing issues raised in our recent Te Huringa report and transforming the system toward the vision of He Ara Oranga. The focus of this investment is aligned with the voices of Māori and tāngata whaiora (people with lived experience of distress and addiction

  • Rolling out more options for crisis care

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    Government recently announced that six new Crisis Recovery Cafés will be rolled out around the country over the next two years. The benefits of this type of care model are examined in our recently released insights paper on acute options for mental health care. Our Lived Experience team prepared

  • Karen Orsborn appointed as Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Chief Executive

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    clearly to those voices over the last 18 months, particularly people and whānau with lived experience of mental distress and addiction. Through the reporting of the Initial Commission, she advocated strongly for the community’s call for system transformation to be prioritised and advanced by Government

  • Achieving equity of Pacific mental health and wellbeing outcomes

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    along with engagement with Pacific communities.  Released 23 May 2024.  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

  • Time called on compulsory community mental health treatment

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      People in mental distress and their whānau do not feel heard in clinical review and court processes that lead to enforced treatment a report released today by Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission shows.  The Lived Experiences of Compulsory Community Treatment

  • Mental health and addiction service monitoring

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    five recommendations: Health NZ develops a mental health and addiction workforce plan to address service capacity and workforce shortages by June 2025 (inclusive of clinical, peer and cultural workforces, Māori and lived experience leadership, and across primary, community, and specialist services

  • Increasing service options for Māori webinar

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    , kua mahi ia puta noa i ngā wāhanga o te mātauranga, o te ture me te ope haumaru.     Guy Baker, Principal Advisor Māori Whānau Lived Experience   A personal journey of lived experience of mental distress later in life, sparked a passion that saw Guy join Te Kupenga Net Trust in

  • Treasury Te Tai Waiora Wellbeing Report reflects same youth wellbeing focus as Te Hiringa Mahara

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    their effects on wellbeing and mental distress. “Our 2021 Te Rau Tira Wellbeing Outcomes Report found that many people experienced positive wellbeing outcomes in home, schooling and community environments. However, it also reported that 23% of tamariki Māori lived in households with good material

  • Mental Health Bill

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    statements about future care. We support the Bill’s introduction of assessment of people’s decision-making capacity as part of new criteria for compulsory assessment and treatment of people. This is a welcome shift towards a modern supported decision-making legislative framework for specialist

  • Chief Executive Karen Orsborn opinion piece on coercive practices

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    co-response teams involving paramedics, mental health clinicians, peers and police staff. Over the past 10 years, such services have demonstrated that they can support people safely, and that people's levels of distress decrease when they are aided by people with lived experience who are trained in