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  • Hauora hinengaro: He ara tūroa: Mental Health: An enduring pathway conference 2025

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    together to be a part of a better collective crisis response. The TheMHS Learning Network and Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission are partnering together to bring you a jam-packed day full of expert discussions, inspiration, and colearning. In 2025 Hauora hinengaro: He ara

  • Webinars

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    July 2023 In this webinar we had three guest presenters discussion what wellbeing means for rangatahi Māori and young people.    Supporting wellbeing after a crisis webinar, 6 April 2023 Te Hiringa Mahara (the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission) hosted a webinar on supporting wellbeing after a crisis, such as pandemics or natural disasters.

  • Put an end to CCTOs

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      We are advocating for change from a coercive to a choice based mental health system. The changes we are calling for can be made now. Repeal and replace the Mental Health Act New legislation must be co-designed with people with lived experience of compulsory treatment, uphold Te Tiriti o

  • Improving crisis responses - Police and Health NZ change programme webinar

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    Te Hiringa Mahara will host a webinar with an expert panel discussion on the Police and Health NZ change programme to responding to mental health crisis events. This webinar is the first in a three-part series on improving crisis responses in Aotearoa New Zealand. Register now . The panel will

  • Pushing ahead with Phase two of the Health NZ and Police mental health response changes

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    statement in response to planned changes. People in acute mental health distress need access to the services and help they need in a timely way. Strengthening the health led crisis responses is the right direction to head. We are keeping a close eye on the implementation of changes being made by NZ

  • Chief Executive Karen Orsborn opinion piece on coercive practices

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    recognition of people's expertise to manage their own distress, and a lack of safe, accessible community-based options for acute care and crisis support. It is concerning that there is a persistently higher application of mental health law to Māori. For many people, the experience of compulsory treatment

  • 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

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

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    We commend the Government’s Budget 2022 investment in specialist mental health and addiction, particularly the investment in community-based crisis services, specialist child and adolescent mental health and addiction services, and Kaupapa Māori services.  "We see this latest announcement as a

  • Where to get support

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    and anyone is in immediate physical danger, phone 111. Alternatively, you can go to your nearest hospital emergency department (ED). For urgent help, mental health crisis services, or medical advice Phone your local Mental Health Crisis Assessment Team  if you are concerned about a person’s

  • Mental Health Bill

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    Download Mental Health Bill submission pdf, 284 KB Since our formation the Commission has contributed to policy development to ensure Aotearoa New Zealand has mental health law based on human rights and eliminates coercive practices or reduces them to the greatest extent possible. We submitted on