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Published: 25 June, 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara's wellbeing assessment reveals people who interact with mental health and addiction services face significantly greater barriers to wellbeing across economic, social and cultural indicators compared to the general population.

Published: November 2025

Find information about us here.

Published: November 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara is a kaitiaki of mental health and wellbeing. We contribute to better and equitable mental health and wellbeing outcomes for all people in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Published: 5 June, 2024

Read and download infographics on: Kaupapa Māori mental health and addiction services, Reducing coercive practices, Youth and rangatahi wellbeing and access to services, and a monitoring overview.

Published: 5 March, 2025

Te Hiringa Mahara will host a webinar on 24 March 2025 with an expert panel discussion on the Police and Health NZ change programme to responding to mental health crisis events.

Published: 1 October, 2020

We created a framework called He Ara Āwhina, which means pathways to support. He Ara Āwhina was published 30 June 2022 and describes what an ideal mental health and addiction system looks like. The process for developing this framework is described on this page.

Published: 29 October, 2024

Last week we welcomed the unanimous passing of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) (Improving Mental Health Outcomes) Amendment Bill. This amendment requires that the Minister for Mental Health produce a mental health and wellbeing strategy for Aotearoa New Zealand within 12 months.

Published: 18 February, 2025

Download our factsheet providing supplementary information about the number of people accessing specialist mental health and addiction services, with data up to June 2024.

Published: 3 April, 2025

Monitoring report on progress and achievements at five years

Published: 18 February, 2025

Fewer people accessed specialist mental health and addiction services in the year from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024 than in previous years.