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Published: August 2025

us to inform our monitoring, and we talk to people with lived experience when we monitor wellbeing and when we monitor what is happening in the mental health and addiction system Value and utilise lived experience by drawing on lived expertise by drawing on lived experience wisdom. Research

Published: 25 February, 2026

Ara Awhina monitoring framework to help us understand how tāngata whaiora access services and how services are performing within a wider system. Data reported on includes the number of people accessing services, wait times, and workforce. This is released as part of our regular monitoring role. Te

Published: 27 October, 2022

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

Published: January 2026

presents key service monitoring findings for young people against the He Ara Āwhina framework . These frameworks are designed to work together, acknowledging the critical contribution of the mental health and addiction system to achieving broader wellbeing outcomes by providing services and support where

Published: 5 November, 2025

see access to peer services is being expanded”. The report released yesterday by Te Hiringa Mahara – Ururpare mōrearea: Crisis responses monitoring report – shows people seeking help and their whānau find current crisis services hard to navigate. We are calling for a nationally cohesive system to be

Published: 8 August, 2025

Pacific adults. Synthesising the health survey data is part of Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission’s role to be thought leaders in the system for mental health and wellbeing. We primarily do this through our core monitoring products. We have recently expanded our suite of

Published: February 2026

Download the report Urupare mōrearea: Crisis responses monitoring report | 2025 downloads Download Urupare mōrearea: Crisis responses monitoring report. Report Watch our webinars Improving crisis responses across Aotearoa New Zealand webinar Watch the recording of a webinar providing an overview of

Published: 5 June, 2024

On 5 June 2024, we released Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey Has Begun —our latest monitoring report on mental health and addiction services. This report focuses on access to mental health and addiction services and options available over the five-year period from July 2018 to June 2023. &nbsp

Published: February 2026

published 30 June 2022 and describes what an ideal mental health and addiction system looks like. This will be used to assess, monitor, and advocate for improvements to the mental health and addiction system of Aotearoa, including services. He Ara Āwhina amplifies the most important voices – tāngata

Published: January 2026

   Our tools to create system change The tools we have as an Independent Crown Entity to create system change include engagement, monitoring, and advocacy. Making recommendations and calls to action are two closely related tools that we use to highlight the changes we want to see to