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  • Could you access mental health or addiction support when you needed it?

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    they found help, how easy or difficult it was to get what they needed. If they didn’t find help, what stopped them from getting the help they needed. If they were whānau or supporting someone else, what was their experience. Our focus was on trying to understand issues that people face when they try

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

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    difference through small actions every day. One of the challenges we have, as a Commission and a mental health and wellbeing sector, is to balance long-term transformation with meeting critical needs for support and services right now, particularly for our children and young people,” says Karen Orsborn

  • 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

  • Strategy on a page

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    -term transformation can take place. Our strategic framework brings the key elements of our strategic plan into one place.  Our Pou Rama is standing strong, grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and shining bright on who we are, our areas of focus and what we do.  It is supported by our

  • Access and Choice programme

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    has substantially increased access to and choice in support services and substantially increased access for people seeking help with mild to moderate mental health, addiction, and wellbeing issues. While the programme represents a good investment in the mental health of New Zealanders and has come a

  • Mental health and addiction system performance monitoring report | 2025 downloads

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    lived and living experience Prioritisises effective services for tāngata whaiora with highest need Provide effective primary prevention and early interventions Ensures accessible and effective services Upholds human rights-based practices Supported by a workforce with the capability, competencies and

  • Lived experiences of CCTOs report

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    see the new mental health law based on supported decision making, and embedding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and a Te Ao Māori worldview. Practices that need to change now under the current Mental Health Act 1992: We want to see a reduction in the number of applications and outcomes granted for CCTOs, and

  • Time called on compulsory community mental health treatment

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    law is re-written we expect it to be in line with Te Tiriti o Waitangi, human rights and best practice so people are supported to make decisions about their treatment. Because the new law won’t come into force for several years, we need changes to cultural and other practices to be made now,” Mr Wano said.  Read the report  

  • Access and choice for mental health and addiction services encouraging, but workforce challenges remain

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    Hayden Wano. “These reports provide us with an opportunity to see where progress is being made, not only in access to services but also in having the opportunity to have genuine service choice. There are more services and capacity in previously under-supported areas, growth in Kaupapa Māori services

  • Our monitoring dashboard

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    are very welcome – please get in touch by email kiaora@mhwc.govt.nz .  In time, we will monitor other mental health and addiction supports and services, and we will continue to make more detailed investigations into system-level change.  Last updated: 11 June 2025.