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  • 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

  • Leadership

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    broad range of initiatives including maternal crisis respite, perinatal and infant mental health service development, and youth respite. Sonya has also led national strategy processes, including leading development of the Commissioning Framework for Mental Health and Addiction and re-development of the

  • 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

  • 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

  • Acute options for mental health care insights paper

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    Download the report Acute options for mental health care insights paper Our insights paper on acute options that can provide an alternative to acute inpatient care. Report This insights report focuses on acute options that can provide an alternative to acute inpatient care. Increasing the range of

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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