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Published: June 2025

Wellbeing assessment: People who interact with mental health and addiction services | June 2025 Our wellbeing assessment shows people who interact with mental health and addiction services face significantly greater barriers to wellbeing compared to those who don’t. Mental health and addiction

Published: 27 September, 2024

Te Hiringa Mahara has been governed by an active board since being formed in February 2021. On 27 September 2024 Matt Doocey, Minister for Mental Health, and Mark Patterson, Minister for Rural Communities, jointly announced the appointment of Wayne Langford as a new board member. Wayne has been

Published: November 2025

, 10am - 11am, to get an overview of how crisis responses are working across Aotearoa New Zealand. Watch our webinar on what makes an effective crisis response Te Hiringa Mahara hosted a webinar on 2 September 2025 exploring effective crisis response models based on our recently released crisis response

Published: April 2025

Ara Āwhina dashboard This dashboard pulls together data about many aspects of Aotearoa New Zealand’s mental health and addiction system. Updated June 2025. System performance monitoring The Commission's first Monitoring mental health and addiction system performance in Aotearoa New Zealand: Our

Published: 27 June, 2023

The report provides an overview of investment into kaupapa Māori mental health and addiction services, sheds light on the significant disparities faced by Māori in mental health outcomes, and calls for the need for change to address these inequities.  It was released on 27 June 2023. Despite

Published: 5 July, 2022

Hayden Wano said the new name embraced the Commission’s role as the kaitiaki of mental health and wellbeing and was an expression of the commitment to being an organisation grounded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi.   “We started by making a strong commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and improving mental

Published: 28 October, 2021

services, this may not include those who find co-payment a barrier to visiting their GP. This presents a significant equity issue,” Wano says. While there are a number of areas that need more focus, overall he says it is exciting to see the momentum created by the Access and Choice programme. “Now we need

Published: March 2025

@mhwc.govt.nz  or call 021 431 658. Keep up-to-date with our work Sign-up to our mailing list and we will email you news, event notices and other updates.  Sign-up here   Transparency Statement The objective of Te Hiringa Mahara in performing its functions and exercising its powers, under

Published: August 2025

We currently have two Lived Experience Advisors whose job is to support connections with tāngata whaiora and lived experience communities and provide advice on all of the work of Te Hiringa Mahara.  Saskia Ymker Saskia Ymker (she/her) is Kaitohu Mātāmua Wheako Ora | Principal Advisor Lived

Published: 3 April, 2025

provides an overview of the implementation of Access and Choice,  primary mental health care programme.  The report finds that the Access and Choice programme has increased the access to and choice in services for people with mild to moderate mental health and addiction needs. This has