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Published: 4 November, 2025

November. The forum, co-hosted by Te Hiringa Mahara and Australian based The Mental Health Services Learning Network, will be opened by Minister Doocey, with mental health experts from New Zealand, Australia and Canada speaking.    Download Urupare mōrearea: crisis responses monitoring report, which focuses on crisis responses over a five-year period Urupare mōrearea: Crisis responses monitoring report

Published: 23 October, 2024

Taranaki Retreat put it “A supportive relationship is formed, in which the safety valve of a listener to both reflect and turn to, is available to them to make positive steps for change.” When power is shared with tāngata whaiora so is the accountability for their choices. Tāngata whaiora from the

Published: 22 March, 2022

wellbeing.  This also creates an opportunity to hear the voices of Māori and people with lived experience and provide a greater choice of supports.” To transform the system toward the vision of He Ara Oranga , the Commission in its role of kaitiaki (guardian) of mental health and wellbeing

Published: March 2024

together and synthesises evidence from academic research, New Zealand data, and the voices of people with lived experience on the value of the peer support workforce in mental health and alcohol and drug services. While the peer support workforce in Aotearoa is growing, it remains a small proportion of our

Published: February 2026

sustained and inequitable use of the current Act. We recommend key areas to be strengthened under the Bill: seclusion is eliminated within a specified timeframe under the Act courts and tribunals decision-making procedures under the Act reflect best practice approaches community compulsory treatment/care

Published: 22 September, 2021

improving outcomes for Māori, including community-led design of kaupapa Māori services that are by Māori, for Māori working with people with lived experience of mental distress and addiction to expand access to services and choice in support options so people can recover from mental distress and addiction

Published: 14 June, 2021

from 1 July after leading the Commission’s establishment efforts as Acting Chief Executive since it opened in February. Throughout 2020, she also led the early set-up phase as Head of Secretariat for the Initial Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission (Initial Commission). “It’s with great pleasure I

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: 10 March, 2026

the world. There is no turning back the clock. Yet the downsides of the online world for young people are well known and how to address these is now playing out on the international stage. With France recently following in Australia's footsteps by introducing an age-based ban on social media, this

Published: 16 June, 2022

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