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Pacific community connections key to wellbeing during COVID-19
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Pacific peoples’ connection – to family, community, culture and faith – has been a key source of strength and resilience in the pandemic. This is according to today’s Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report Pacific connectedness and wellbeing in the pandemic 
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COVID-19 learnings can support communities recovering from Cyclone Gabrielle
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; “Crises like the pandemic have shown us that re-establishing and strengthening the social infrastructure that supports connection and communities is key to supporting wellbeing,” says Te Hiringa Mahara Chief Executive Karen Orsborn. “We can expect rates of distress and addiction to
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We asked what happened with our recommendations? Here’s what we found out
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June 2024, which included four recommendations for Health NZ and one recommendation for the government to be achieved by 30 June 2025. We know our stakeholders including tāngata whaiora and those with lived experience want to see the impact and influence our work has in creating change, so in recent
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Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission supports legislation to ban conversion therapy
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intent. We urge the Select Committee to listen carefully to the voices of rainbow communities, including trans people, those with variations of sex characteristics (sometimes known as intersex), and non-binary people, and their calls to clarify and strengthen areas of the Bill,” says Kevin Hague
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Collective effort will ensure Auditor General’s recommendations on mental health support for rangatahi and young people hit the mark
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to youth mental health and addiction services so no matter where people live or what their ethnicity or gender is, people can get the help they need. “We know that Māori, rainbow young people, and young people in state care have higher rates of distress yet can’t always get access to the care
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More investment needed for kaupapa Māori mental health and addiction services
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2024, is allocated to Kaupapa Māori services and Māori providers. This is a positive step forward,” Mr Wano said. “It is about more than just funding. These services also need to be empowered to design and deliver services tailored to their communities. In support of this, we advocate for the
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Te Hiringa Mahara welcomes Health Quality and Safety Commission report on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 on Aotearoa
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services. “As the Commission notes, the arrival of the Omicron variant has exposed long-standing, fundamental weaknesses in our health system. There is little capacity in the mental health system to cope with shocks, there are entrenched inequities in access to services and better outcomes experienced by
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Time called on compulsory community mental health treatment
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Orders report documents how tāngata whaiora, whānau and family, and Māori feel marginalised in processes that determine what treatment they receive. “The use of compulsory community treatment orders is a practice from mental health that is out of step with human rights and current approaches to
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Focus on youth wellbeing more urgent than ever
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More evidence of the state of New Zealand youth mental health — Youth and rangatahi wellbeing and access to services assessment — has been released today and shows that while most youth and rangatahi are doing well, there is a steady decline in youth wellbeing in comparison to older age groups more
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Holding a mirror up to the mental health and addiction system
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same ends. An important step is for the Government’s new Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy to reflect this thinking.” “We can’t rely on small changes to improve outcomes for people – it will take commitment to changes across the board. We want to see outcomes achieved when we look back at the 10