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Published: March 2024

kōwhiringa ratonga mā te Māori. Despite funding increases over the past five years, more needs to be done to achieve equitable funding in kaupapa Māori mental health and addiction services. This is to ensure that the support available meets the level of mental distress experienced by Māori within

Published: 4 November, 2025

Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission.   The latest report of the Commission, “Urupare mōrearea: Crisis responses monitoring report”, has found that crisis response services are fragmented and difficult to navigate. “The findings in the report are clear. We need national consistency to

Published: 18 February, 2025

This factsheet provides supplementary information about the number of people accessing specialist mental health and addiction services, with data up to June 2024. Latest data to June 2024, shows the number of people using specialist mental health and addiction services continues to decrease. In

Published: February 2026

Download Mental Health Bill submission pdf, 284 KB Since our formation Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission has contributed to policy development to ensure Aotearoa New Zealand has mental health law based on human rights and eliminates coercive practices or reduces them to the

Published: 8 December, 2021

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

Published: 25 June, 2020

. Expanding access and choice to publicly funded mental health and addiction services Programmes for new frontline services have been launched at pace, such as nearly nationwide services via GPs, and pilot programmes with kaupapa Māori, Pacific and youth focus. Money is flowing into mental health to support

Published: 20 May, 2025

catalysts for the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction (the He Ara Oranga Inquiry) in 2019 alongside widespread concern within the mental health sector and the broader community about services. Rates of suicide for young Māori people or rangatahi Māori have been noted as a pressing health

Published: January 2026

the public service and in a variety of industries over the last 25 years.  Stuart is a member of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, and has an accounting qualification from the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. Over the past year he has honed his DIY skills as part of a house renovation project in central Wellington.

Published: February 2026

June 2023. We answer the question: ‘Where has the funding gone?’ In 2019, in response to the report of the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction (He Ara Oranga) , the Government invested over $1.9 billion into mental health and wellbeing as part of the landmark 2019 Wellbeing Budget

Published: 13 December, 2023

team of about 20 (FTEs). We have continued to focus on building our capability to act as an effective leader, monitor and advocate. A highlight for the team last year was a noho marae hosted by Te Āti Awa. We are planning further wananga in the coming year.  This is a short snapshot of our