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Published: 15 April, 2026

A once‑in‑a‑decade Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy has been released for public consultation, and Te Hiringa Mahara is calling on New Zealanders to help shape the final document.

Published: March 2026

This short paper captures outcome of the think tank held in August 2025 to explore the future roles of primary and community care play in supporting people with mental health and substance use needs.

Published: 30 April, 2026

Two new reports show early intervention and secondary prevention are effective, scalable ways to support the mental health and wellbeing of young people.

Published: February 2026

Te Hiringa Mahara is releasing a package of products in April-June 2025 to monitor mental health and addiction services, and understand system performance.

Published: November 2025

Published May 2024.

Published: 29 June, 2023

2023 - Our Peer support workforce paper shows the critical role of the peer workforce in enabling recovery, improving hope and in transforming the landscape of mental health and addiction services.

Published: 27 June, 2023

period from 30 per cent in 2017/18 to 26 per cent in the last financial year (2021/22). To ensure a more balanced allocation of resources, we call for an increase in funding for kaupapa Māori services to address inequities in the funding model. This includes an allocation of any new mental health and

Published: February 2026

Our approach and initial findings | June 2025

Published: 25 February, 2026

people, including young people, however it is still falling short of the aim of 325,000 per year,” Ms Orsborn said. Editor’s note - summary of key findings More people were able to access services overall 183,356 people used specialist services in 2024/2025, an increase of 6,072 (3.4% increase) compared

Published: 5 November, 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission welcomes investment in crisis response services announced today by Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey.