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  • Access and Choice programme

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    Access and Choice programme, as the five-year roll-out period is now complete. Te Hiringa Mahara released reports in October 2021 and November 2022 to provide independent updates on the implementation of the programme. This report builds on our two previous reports and looks at how the services have

  • More deliberate focus needed to ensure all people in Aotearoa experience good wellbeing

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    experience good wellbeing, most of the time. The report also found that a concerningly large minority of people and communities experience persistently poor wellbeing. “This may not come as a surprise to many, but that does not make it any less concerning,” says Board Chair, Hayden Wano. “When a person

  • Karen Orsborn appointed as Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Chief Executive

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    Commission set to move forward on advancing Aotearoa’s wellbeing agenda The Chair of the Commission Board, Hayden Wano, has today announced the appointment of its new Tumu Whakarae - Chief Executive for the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. Karen Orsborn steps into the Chief Executive role

  • 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

  • He Ara Āwhina development journey

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    and Pacific communities. People told us: Support starts and continues with people and communities, not services. The former Mental Health Commissioner’s framework was viewed as being too narrow but was something that could be refined and built upon. The voices of Māori and tāngata whaiora are crucial

  • Annual Report 2022/23 highlights

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    Te Hiringa Mahara Chief Executive Karen Orsborn shares highlights from our 2022-23 Annual Report. In our second full year we have ramped up our efforts as kaitiaki of mental health and wellbeing in Aotearoa. In this short note I am sharing some of the highlights from the 2022-23 year, with our full

  • Increasing service options for Māori webinar

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      Watch our fourth recording in the Te Huringa Tuarua webinar series - 19 October 2023. Learn about the impacts of inequitable investment and what it will take to improve service options for Māori. Ākona ngā tukinga o ngā tōritenga haumi me te huarahi e anga ai tātou ki te whakapai ake i ngā

  • Unicef report highlights Aotearoa New Zealand's low ranking for child and youth mental health and wellbeing

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    are failing to address well-established high rates of suicide and mental distress among our young people as a nation. There is overwhelming evidence to show that psychological distress and mental wellbeing for young people is declining over time. New Zealand’s high suicide rates was one of the

  • Mental Health Bill

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    the Mental Health Bill, introduced into Parliament in October 2024. Download and read our full submission on the Mental Health Bill (2024) (PDF 284KB)       Summary of our submission on the Mental Health Bill This Mental Health Bill is a step in the right direction to update the Mental

  • Chief Executive Karen Orsborn opinion piece on coercive practices

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    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 despite evidence they have no