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Published: September 2023

are feeling, there is someone to talk to and free help is available. People are here for you if you just want to seek advice around how to support people that you’re worried about. Whatever support you’re looking for, there is a variety of online tools and helplines. If it is an emergency situation

Published: 5 June, 2024

There have been significant changes in access to mental health and addiction over the past five years a monitoring report released today by Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission shows. The new report, Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey Has Begun , provides the most up-to-date

Published: 10 July, 2025

assessment released on 25 June is our first assessment comparing the status of wellbeing for people who interact with mental health and addiction services when compared compared to the rest of the population. It found that people who interact with mental health and addiction services experience systemic

Published: 13 December, 2023

last year we had interviews in national media such as TVNZ Breakfast, Radio Waatea and RNZ Morning Report through to specialist outlets including rural, iwi and Pasifika media.   During the year we met with kindred agencies in Australia as a member of the Australasian Joint Mental Health

Published: March 2024

their communities.  This was a key finding of our Kaupapa Māori Services report , released in June of this year.  Hāunga anō ngā pikinga pūtea i te rima tau kua pahure, me kaha tonu ake te whakatutuki i ngā pūtea taurite ki ngā ratonga Māori mō te hauora hinengaro me ngā waranga. Ko tōna kaupapa

Published: May 2026

of mental health and addiction services is now available. This new data is for the most recent year, up until 30 June 2025. He Ara Āwhina | Pathways to Support framework covers a total of 76 measures. To provide an at-a-glance overview of service performance a short, visual summary has been published

Published: May 2026

journey through these servic This report focuses on crisis responses over a five-year period, from January 2020 to December 2024. Crisis responses form a critical function in ensuring people and whānau who are experiencing crisis get the urgent support they need.   Our report examines how the

Published: 13 December, 2023

New Zealand’s first Minister for Mental Health, Matt Doocey, has a big job ahead of him. Te Hiringa Mahara | Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission chair Hayden Wano outlines our top priorities to transform our mental health and addiction system.  The announcement that New Zealand will have

Published: 10 March, 2026

starts and implement changes at the source. Just as we regulate pollution put into our physical environments to ensure that young people can be free to learn and explore, shouldn’t the same attention be given to our online environments? Young people want to see the government enact stronger

Published: 16 June, 2022

In early June we provided an article on coercive practices to the New Zealand Herald for consideration as part of its Great Minds campaign on mental health. The article, by our Chief Executive Karen Orsborn, pointed out that coercive practices continue in Aotearoa New Zealand despite evidence they