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Put an end to CCTOs
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Waitangi, human rights and supported decision making. The process to repeal and replace the Mental Health Act is underway but will take years to be agreed and implemented. We don’t have to wait for changes to be made now. Make changes in practice now Implement cultural and other practice changes in
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New report highlights Pacific wellbeing challenges
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Newsexample is adequate household income – Pacific young people are putting their learning on hold to support their families due to rising cost of living. We can expect this situation to worsen if left unaddressed.” "We want to see a continued focus on mental health and wellbeing outcomes for Pacific
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Chief Executive Karen Orsborn opinion piece on coercive practices
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Newsto coercion despite evidence there is no therapeutic value in such practices. The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission wants investment that will provide the choice of services needed to enhance everyone's safety, end coercive practices and support whānau to safely navigate through
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Strategy to improve mental health outcomes on the way
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Newspassed into law with unanimous support from MPs. When the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill was introduced in October 2021, we advocated for the inclusion of a mental health and addiction strategy under the legislation. While six other strategies were specified, mental health and addiction was not included
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Mental Health Bill debate stalled
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Newspersistent inequities for Māori and Pacific peoples that must be addressed. “We need to see a shift in the system to ensure human rights are upheld in practice. A new Mental Health Act is needed to support the reduction and ultimately the end of seclusion and enable clear pathways for safe and
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Our work
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health and addiction services that support people's mental health and wellbeing in Aotearoa. Wellbeing Learn more about our monitoring and advocacy to address determinants of improved individual and whānau mental health and wellbeing outcomes.
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Initial Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission appointed
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NewsThe Government announced appointments to the Initial Commission on 12 September 2019.
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Guide to language in He Ara Āwhina
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Resource, psychiatric diagnosis, addiction, using mental health or addiction supports or services, or experience of barriers to accessing these support and services when they are needed. Lived experience relates to how people self-identify, and share their identity with others, so it is not our role to
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Te Hiringa Mahara to continue to advocate for young people after Oranga Tamariki Bill passes third reading
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NewsThe Oversight of Oranga Tamariki System and Children and Young People’s Commission Bill, intended to strengthen the oversight of Oranga Tamariki and improve the care and support provided to young people in care, has passed its third reading in Parliament. Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and
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Lived experiences of Compulsory Community Treatment Orders under the Mental Health Act (1992) webinar
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practices under the current Mental Health Act. The Government process to repeal and replace the Act is underway, but it is likely to be years before new legislation is passed and fully implemented. We call for new law, based on supported decision making, embedding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Te Ao