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Published: September 2024

Here are our media releases and news stories.

Published: May 2026

Crisis responses are a critical part of an effective mental health and addiction system. However, crisis response pathways are hard to navigate, fragmented, and patchy, and many people don’t get the help they need. In November 2025 we published Urupare mōrearea: Crisis responses monitoring report

Published: January 2026

Mental health and wellbeing is a global issue and Te Hiringa Mahara connects with commissions and other global entities.

Published: 3 December, 2025

ensures transparency, acts as a lever for change, and allows people to see the impact from our recommendations.  The first recommendations were made in the Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey has Begun, monitoring report published in June 2024. These were directed towards Health New Zealand and the

Published: November 2025

Published May 2024.

Published: 21 February, 2022

I would like to welcome our newest member, Tuari Potiki, to the Board of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission.

Published: 12 September, 2019

The Government announced appointments to the Initial Commission on 12 September 2019. Read the press release on the Beehive website .

Published: 6 October, 2022

Te Hiringa Mahara has produced a series of short reports during 2022 and 2023 to add our collective understanding of the wellbeing impacts of the pandemic and to provide key insights on wellbeing areas or populations of focus. Wellbeing impacts of COVID-19 pandemic This eighth (and final) report

Published: May 2024

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Published: February 2026

Mental health and addiction system performance monitoring report downloads | June 2025 Download the system performance monitoring report outlining six key shifts to transform our mental health and addiction system. Report As an independent monitor of the mental health and wellbeing system, we