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  • Access and Choice programme

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    independent monitoring shows the programme 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 needs. While the programme represents a good investment in the mental

  • Call for a National Mental Health Crisis System

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    the country that could be scaled up nationwide. From peer support to kaupapa Māori services, publicly funded services across the country are already demonstrating what good crisis responses looks like.  “Change is already happening in pockets across Aotearoa New Zealand. This is very positive

  • Lived experiences of Compulsory Community Treatment Orders under the Mental Health Act (1992) webinar

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    practices under the current Mental Health Act. The Government process to repeal and replace the Act is underway, but it is likely to be years before new legislation is passed and fully implemented. We call for new law, based on supported decision making, embedding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Te Ao

  • Mental health and addiction service monitoring

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    workforce challenges.  The report calls for urgent action by Government and health agencies to accelerate improvement in a range of critical areas. The report makes five recommendations: Health NZ develops a mental health and addiction workforce plan to address service capacity and workforce

  • He Ara Āwhina development journey

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     in assessing whether services, and approaches to wellbeing, are meeting the needs of people and communities. There needs to be a shared view of what ‘good’ or transformative services and supports look like  so we can monitor and assess performance and contribute to wellbeing outcomes. We

  • Annual Report 2022/23 highlights

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    on policy proposals and bills, such as the Accessibility for New Zealanders Bill, Therapeutic Products Bill and Manatū Hauora policy proposal to repeal and replace the Mental Health Act.   We generated good coverage of the issues we’re working on in a variety of media outlets. Over the

  • Mental Health Bill

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    people’s rights, will and preferences, to make decisions about their care. Shifting to supported decision making The Bill does not go far enough to enable the shifts in practice we want to see lead to better outcomes for people. The Bill’s second half retains substituted decision-making roles and

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

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    Prevention Action Plan .   Work underway to understand the prevalence of mental health needs for children and youth is a good start to designing more effective services. Our 2024 mental health and addiction service monitoring report showed that investment in services for children and young

  • Chief Executive Karen Orsborn opinion piece on coercive practices

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    significant distress. The Commission urges the Government to be bold in work under way to transform mental health law, and to invest in culturally appropriate, community-based acute services to provide genuine choice for people and whānau, alongside the option of inpatient care. People with personal

  • Put an end to CCTOs

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      We are advocating for change from a coercive to a choice based mental health system. The changes we are calling for can be made now. Repeal and replace the Mental Health Act New legislation must be co-designed with people with lived experience of compulsory treatment, uphold Te Tiriti o