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Published: 14 May, 2026

2026 analysis report Downloads What matters for mental wellbeing - May 2026 pdf, 5.5 MB Download What matters for mental wellbeing May 2026 docx, 1004 KB Download

Published: November 2023

Te Hiringa Mahara is committed to building on the actions of Kia Toipoto - Mahere Mahi Āputa Utu Ratonga Tūmatanui 2021-24 (Kia Toipoto – Public Service Pay Gaps Action Plan 2021-24). This is a comprehensive set of activities to help close gender, Māori, Pacific and ethnic pay gaps in the Public

Published: 4 November, 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission held a webinar on what's needed to improve crisis responses across Aotearoa New Zealand on Monday 1 December 2025.     This hour-long session provided an overview of the recently released Urupare mōrearea: Crisis Responses

Published: 5 March, 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara hosted a webinar with an expert panel discussion on the Police and Health NZ change programme to responding to mental health crisis events. This webinar was the first in a three-part series on improving crisis responses in Aotearoa New Zealand.  The panel included lived

Published: September 2023

Our wellbeing outcomes framework downloads Read and download our wellbeing outcomes framework Report Tarāwaho huatau | Conceptual framework Following a co-design and consultation process the Board of the Initial Commission developed the conceptual framework, He Ara Oranga wellbeing outcomes

Published: July 2025

experience networks, organisations and people, and are grateful for the contributions that lived experience groups have made to our work so far. Some of the ways that tāngata whaiora and lived experience groups can be involved in our work include: meeting with us kanohi ki te kanohi (face to face) or online

Published: 30 April, 2026

Zealand Health Survey found 1 in 5 of 15–24-year-olds experienced high to very high psychological distress. Primary and specialist mental health and addiction services cannot meet need at this scale.  “We know that without easy-to-access support, early distress can lead to long lasting negative

Published: April 2025

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Published: 19 April, 2024

entity under s4 of the Act.  If this is included we argue there will be the unintended consequence of reducing our statutory independence and it will impede our ability to perform our monitoring and accountability roles.   You can find all 59 submissions on the Health Select Committee

Published: April 2026

Later in 2026 we will be releasing the following: Our second mental health and addiction system performance monitoring report (June 2026) A comprehensive monitoring report on rangatahi and young people’s access to mental health and addiction services (November 2026). We have also published relevant