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Published: 23 July, 2024

Te Hiringa Mahara and Le Va co-hosted a webinar on supporting Pacific people's wellbeing in Aotearoa. The webinar shared and expanded on the findings of our Pacific wellbeing report which was released in May 2024.   The report brought together an assessment of Pacific peoples mental health and

Published: 13 December, 2023

Commissioner Forum. We participated in forums organised by the World Federation for Mental Health and the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL). We met visiting IIMHL CEO Steve Appleton alongside Le Va colleagues in early November.    We have a small but very committed

Published: January 2026

history in Golden Bay, going back six generations, with their heritage including the historic Langford Store at the top of the Aorere valley. Wayne has held governance roles in the mental health, veterinarian and rural education space. He is often referred to as the YOLOFarmer, a social media

Published: February 2026

peer support and lived experience workforce in enabling recovery, improving hope and in transforming the landscape of mental health and addiction services. The potential of this workforce is yet to be fully realised.  Key findings in the paper include: The peer support approach and its values are

Published: 20 April, 2026

updated law will set a new standard for care. Delays are putting the intended commencement date, currently set for July 2027, at risk.   “Still, too many people experience compulsory community treatment and seclusion in our mental health services, and there is wide variation between districts with

Published: 9 April, 2025

On 8 April the NZ Police and Health NZ made a joint announcement about Mental Health Response Changes.  With Phase One complete, the agencies Phase Two will now start from 14 April with both agencies agreeing to a staged implementation across districts. Te Hiringa Mahara has made this

Published: 21 March, 2024

recent years there has been a marginal increase in the size of the peer support workforce (an increase of 64 FTE or 18% between 2018 and 2022) but it still makes up only 3.4% of the wider mental health and addictions workforce.  “The peer support approach and values are critical to transforming

Published: 28 August, 2024

Details of how the 2019 Wellbeing Budget Taking mental health seriously funding was spent have been made public by Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. In a new report released today, the Commission shows that 92% of all funding allocated had been spent or committed by 30

Published: 8 June, 2023

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

Published: May 2026

over the past decade. The research is clear that supporting young people earlier, before distress escalates, can reduce the long-term impacts on their mental health, wellbeing, education, employment, and family outcomes. It also reduces the demand on the mental health system which is under pressure