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Published: 22 August, 2024

Download our insights report focusing on acute options that can provide an alternative to acute inpatient care. Increasing the range of acute options provides people with viable and welcome alternatives that allow them to stay safe and supported in their local community. Published: August 2024.

Published: 14 November, 2019

Chair of the Initial Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission presents at the Ministry of Health's forum on 'Enabling Wellbeing'.

Published: June 2025

Monitoring report on progress and achievements at five years

Published: 5 June, 2024

Download the Mental health and addiction service monitoring report 2024: Access and options

Published: June 2024

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Published: 30 June, 2022

Our He Ara Āwhina Framework, which means pathways to support, describes what an ideal mental health and addiction system looks like and is used to used to assess, monitor, and advocate for improvements to the mental health and addiction system of Aotearoa.

Published: 24 March, 2025

Registrations are open now the for Hauora hinengaro: He ara tūroa conference 2025. This will be held on 5 November 5th at the
Waipuna Hotel in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland. The focus will be on Waenga mōrearea: He ara oranga : Amidst crisis and distress there are pathways to wellbeing.

Published: 1 October, 2020

We created a framework called He Ara Āwhina, which means pathways to support. He Ara Āwhina was published 30 June 2022 and describes what an ideal mental health and addiction system looks like. The process for developing this framework is described on this page.

Published: June 2025

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Published: 30 June, 2022

The most important terms in He Ara Āwhina are explained here, along with complex terms that are not ‘everyday language’.