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  • Put an end to CCTOs

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    unacceptable. Māori and Pacific peoples are more likely to experience compulsory treatment, and solitary confinement. In 2020/21, Māori were 1.8 times more likely than Pacific peoples and 4 times more likely than other ethnicities to be subject to Compulsory Community Treatment Orders. 

  • 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.

  • Pathway for peer support to transform the mental health and addiction workforce webinar

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      Watch our second recording in the Te Huringa Tuarua webinar series - 5 October 2023. Find out how we can realise the potential of the peer support workforce in Aotearoa New Zealand.   We released our peer support workforce insights paper in June this year. This paper brings

  • Key mental health and addiction findings: NZ Health Survey 2023/24

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    We’ve put the key mental health and addiction findings from the NZ Health Survey 2023/2024 into one, easy to read summary. We intend for this information to be used as evidence to support planning and investment, and to direct resources where they are most needed to improve mental health and

  • Our commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi

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    Tauākī ki Te Tiriti o Waitangi Te Tauākī ki Te Tiriti on Waitangi, July 2025 pdf, 505 KB Te Tiriti o Waitangi Position Statement, July 2025 pdf, 397 KB Te Tauākī ki Te Tiriti on Waitangi glossary pdf, 705 KB Ngā Ringa Raupā Ngā Ringa Raupā are the collective of Māori kaimahi within Te Hiringa Mahara

  • Governance

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    The Te Hiringa Mahara Board is chaired by Hayden Wano. The board members are Professor Sunny Collings, Kevin Hague, Wayne Langford, Dr Barbara Disley, Tuari Potiki and Alexander El Amanni. Appointments to the board were announced on 18 December 2020 by the Minister of Health. The announcement was

  • Where did the $1.9 billion Wellbeing Budget go?

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    Details of how the 2019 Wellbeing Budget Taking mental health seriously funding was spent have been made public by Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. In a new report released today, the Commission shows that 92% of all funding allocated had been spent or committed by 30

  • Guide to language in He Ara Āwhina

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    particular direction and denying fully informed consent. Commercial determinants Private sector (companies that aren’t controlled by the state) activities that can affect people’s health [and wellbeing] positively or negatively (World Health Organisation, 2021). This can include alcohol advertising, or

  • Lived experiences of CCTOs report

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    This report looks at compulsory community treatment orders (CCTOs) made under section 29 of the Mental Health Act 1992. The focus is on amplifying voices of tāngata whaiora, whānau, and family. We heard that the clinical review and the court hearing processes involved in CCTOs can silence or

  • Pacific community connections key to wellbeing during COVID-19

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    Pacific peoples’ connection – to family, community, culture and faith – has been a key source of strength and resilience in the pandemic.