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Published: 20 May, 2025

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

Published: 24 March, 2026

paper. The paper documents the discussion which answered two provocative questions: What does the primary care landscape need to look like? How do we get there? This discussion followed the release in April 2025 of our final monitoring report on the Access and Choice programme. During development of

Published: 3 April, 2025

and young people experience high rates of psychological distress it’s vital there are services available that meet their needs. Therefore it’s a promising sign to see the rate at which young people are accessing services throughout the country,” Ms Orsborn said. Read the  Access and Choice Programme: 2025 monitoring report

Published: 8 June, 2022

transition, to make sure transforming the mental health and addiction system remains a priority,” Mr Wano said. “Through the reforms, the Commission will work closely with the Ministry of Health, Health New Zealand, and te Mana Hauora Māori (the Māori Health Authority) to support, guide, and monitor a health system that prioritises mental health and wellbeing, and that puts mental health and addiction services front and centre.”

Published: 1 December, 2021

We are currently in the important stage of mahi (work) to develop the methods and measures for how we will monitor and assess the mental health and addiction system. Phase 1 of this work was completed at the end of 2022, and mahi will continue for measures where data does not exist or are not

Published: 9 April, 2025

Police and Health NZ. We expect the agencies leading this work (NZ Police and Health NZ) to ensure the proposed changes are well planned and implemented.  The changes need to be closely monitored and any issues that arise responded to and escalated as needed. A priority must be to ensure the

Published: 3 December, 2025

ensures transparency, acts as a lever for change, and allows people to see the impact from our recommendations.  The first recommendations were made in the Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey has Begun, monitoring report published in June 2024. These were directed towards Health New Zealand and the

Published: 16 February, 2024

health, alcohol and other drug use care for young people.  “Te Hiringa Mahara will continue to advocate for changes that improve access to and quality of mental health care for young people and their wellbeing, and we’ll keep monitoring how things are going,” Ms Orsborn said.  &nbsp

Published: 30 June, 2022

About the framework We have created a framework called  He Ara Āwhina , which means pathways to support. He Ara Āwhina 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

Published: 6 October, 2022

changed over the pandemic. The wellbeing analysis in the report also drew on the  He Ara Oranga Wellbeing Outcomes Framework  which describes the aspects of good wellbeing in Aotearoa, and guides the way Te Hiringa Mahara monitors the systems that influence these in our communities. This