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  • Understanding wellbeing for rangatahi and young people webinar

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    . Jessica Stubbing, Research Fellow and Clinical Psychologist, Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures, discusses the importance of youth voice for improving our understanding of young people’s wellbeing. Ta’ase Vaoga (Sāmoa, Ngāpuhi, Te Ātihaunui-a-Pāpārangi), Rangatahi Insights Lead, Te Rourou, One

  • 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

  • More deliberate focus needed to ensure all people in Aotearoa experience good wellbeing

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    young people, veterans, rainbow communities, Māori, Pacific peoples, former refugees and migrants, children in state care, older people, rural communities, disabled people, prisoners, and children experiencing adverse childhood events, looked at felt life is less worthwhile, and reported less

  • Lived experiences of Compulsory Community Treatment Orders under the Mental Health Act (1992) webinar

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    focus is on clinical review (application) and the court hearing (outcome) as formal substitute decision-making practices under the Act. These voices raise questions about the extent to which people are involved and participate meaningfully in clinical reviews and court hearings under the Act. Such

  • Access and Choice programme

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    arrangements. Health NZ develop a plan to reduce 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

  • 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

  • He Ara Āwhina development journey

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    and Pacific communities. People told us: Support starts and continues with people and communities, not services. The former Mental Health Commissioner’s framework was viewed as being too narrow but was something that could be refined and built upon. The voices of Māori and tāngata whaiora are crucial

  • Our tools to create system change

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    Asessment of progress report downloads Read our assessment of recommendations made in the Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey Has Begun service monitoring report. December 2025. As an Independent Crown Entity, Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission uses a variety of tools to

  • Voices report: accompanying report to Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga 2024

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    asking for help, discrimination, or a lack of suitable options. We have also heard good stories, such as of people getting the support they needed, and the value of being active participants in their own care or with their whānau and family. This report captures this and more. The hard-working mental