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  • Pacific community connections key to wellbeing during COVID-19

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    they connected with family, community, church and culture.  “The pandemic highlighted the value of connectedness to maintaining Pacific communities’ health and wellbeing. Throughout the worse periods of the pandemic, Pacific people drew on their connections to provide flexible and practical

  • Put an end to CCTOs

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    . Why is this important? People in Aotearoa experiencing significant mental distress continue to be subject to coercive practices despite evidence there is no therapeutic value.  Practices, like compulsory community treatment orders or seclusion, are enabled by: outdated mental health law (the Mental

  • Targeted vaccination approaches needed in the face of Omicron variant

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    As New Zealand faces community transmission of the Omicron variant, too many people who experience mental distress or addictions remain unvaccinated. The total New Zealand vaccination rates are now very high, with over one million people boosted and 93% of the eligible population double vaccinated

  • Youth wellbeing insights

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    pressing and present issue when they think about their future, since young people, particularly rangatahi Māori, value the environment for their wellbeing Discrimination, including anti-rainbow discrimination and ableism, racism and the impacts of colonisation are significant issues for rangatahi Māori

  • Peer support workforce paper 2023

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    ; The peer support approach and values are critical to transforming models of care and addressing wider workforce shortages. There is huge potential for further development of the Māori lived experience workforce, who bring a Te Ao Māori perspective, which incorporates mātauranga Māori, tikanga, and

  • Broader focus on wellbeing needed to understand COVID-19 impacts

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    good mental health and wellbeing, services and resources are important, but not enough.  People need to have their rights, dignity and tino rangatiratanga upheld; they need to feel valued and connected to their communities and their cultures; and they need skills, resilience, hope and purpose

  • Pathway for peer support to transform the mental health and addiction workforce webinar

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    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

  • Work with us

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    your skills and experience to our work, check out current vacancies and apply for them, or register your interest in future job opportunities. For recruitment queries, contact hr@mhwc.govt.nz or call us on 021 431 658. Me pēhea te tuku tono - How to apply To apply for a role, click on the position you

  • Access and Choice programme

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    unwarranted variation across the country in relation to fidelity (including access and entry pathways) to the IPMHA model by 30 June 2026. The full monitoring report, summary and Kaupapa Māori primary mental health and addiction services data infographic were published in April 2025.  In

  • Meet our Lived Experience Advisors

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    Mahara in June 2025 as Kaitohutohu Wheako Whānau Māori | Principal Advisor Whānau Māori Lived Experience. Previously I have worked in a variety of policy and operational roles across the health system, including at Te Aka Whai Ora | the Māori Health Authority, Te Whatu Ora | Health NZ, and Manatū