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  • 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

  • Covid-19 Insights Series - Wellbeing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

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    understand the experiences of different communities in Aotearoa. Note:  This final paper does not evaluate the Government’s COVID-19 response – rather it highlights the shared and unique wellbeing impacts of the pandemic, for people who experience greater barriers to wellbeing across Aotearoa. Read

  • Technical Advisory Network

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    readily available. We established a Technical Advisory Network (TAN) to provide advice and expertise of methods, measures, data sources and data gaps. This group was active during 2022 and had a diverse membership that covered the broad scope of He Ara Āwhina, priority groups, and experience of both

  • Could you access mental health or addiction support when you needed it?

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    they found help, how easy or difficult it was to get what they needed. If they didn’t find help, what stopped them from getting the help they needed. If they were whānau or supporting someone else, what was their experience. Our focus was on trying to understand issues that people face when they try

  • Assessment of youth and rangatahi wellbeing and access to services

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    ).   Download infographic (Word 4.3MB) Topics covered in the infographic include rating of wellbeing, income adequacy, experience of discrimination, educational achievement, access to services and levels of psychological distress. We did this assessment to feed into policy and system responses to

  • Advocacy

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    commissions and other global entities about mental health and wellbeing. Our advocacy focuses on: The collective interests of people who experience mental distress or addiction, and the people, including whānau, who support them Improving mental health and addiction services Approaches to mental

  • 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

  • Our wellbeing outcome framework

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    wellbeing outcomes framework shows how wellbeing will be achieved from both a te ao Māori perspective and a shared perspective, which also applies to Māori. Wellbeing will be achieved when all people, their whānau (families) and hapori (communities) experience: From a te ao Māori perspective: Tino

  • Young people experiencing acute mental distress need age-appropriate care

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    Too many young people experiencing acute mental distress are being admitted to adult inpatient mental health services, and this practice needs to stop. This is according to today’s Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report Te Huringa Tuarua 2023: Youth services focus

  • Expert Advisory Group

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    -design of the vision of what a system of services, support, and approaches should look like for people and whānau who experience mental distress, substance use harm, or gambling harm (or a combination of these). The group included a Māori EAG which supported the development of a te ao Māori perspective