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  • Priority on youth mental health strikes a chord

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    should be able to access the right support where and when they need,” says Karen Orsborn, Te Hiringa Mahara chief executive.  “We only need to acknowledge increasing levels of distress, and the many well-known barriers to wellbeing, to understand that much more needs to be done to support young

  • Meet our Lived Experience Advisors

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    We currently have two Lived Experience Advisors whose job is to support connections with tāngata whaiora and lived experience communities and provide advice on all of the work of Te Hiringa Mahara.  Saskia Ymker Saskia Ymker (she/her) is Kaitohu Mātāmua Wheako Ora | Principal Advisor Lived

  • Lived experience

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    our Board members  We also have two Lived Experience Advisors whose job is to support connections with tāngata whaiora and lived experience communities and provide advice on all of the work of Te Hiringa Mahara. Meet our Lived Experience Advisors Find out more about what we do: Our relationships Advancing lived experience mental health and wellbeing

  • Prioritising youth voices necessary to improve wellbeing

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    The mental health and wellbeing of rangatahi Māori and young people is one of the most important issues we can focus on today. We only need to acknowledge increasing levels of distress, and the many well-known barriers to wellbeing, to understand that much more needs to be done to support young

  • More action needed to address mental health and addiction service challenges

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    More people are accessing new services through the Access and Choice programme, however, there has been a decrease in people accessing specialist mental health and addiction services and other primary mental health services, and little or no change on other measures of service quality. This is

  • Refreshed strategic direction – July 2025

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    In July 2025 the Commission began operating under a refreshed organisational strategy that sets out how we work and what we will deliver over the next four years. Our approach is documented in our 2025-2029 Statement of Intent and 2025/26 Statement of Performance Expectations, along with a new

  • Focus on youth wellbeing more urgent than ever

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    people who are disabled and those that identify as LGBTQIA+experience more discrimination, loneliness, lower trust in others, and feeling like what they do is worthwhile. Te Hiringa Mahara research looked at wellbeing data from the General Social Survey (GSS), Te Kupenga (TK), the Household Economic

  • Te Ao Māori

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    Our commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi Learn more about our commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Relationships and engagements Learn more about our relationship and engagement with Māori communities, systems and services. Advancing Māori mental health Find more information about the work that we do, including reports, about advancing Māori mental health.

  • New primary mental health and addiction support provides a welcome expansion, but gaps remain – new report

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    to be able to respond,” Orsborn says. “Based on this new report, we now better understand what is happening across the system. Our report offers five recommendations that put the spotlight on where we can improve access and options available for people seeking support.” Downloads Kua Tīmata He Haerenga | The Journey Has Begun report June 2024 Voices report: Accompanying report to Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga June 2024   Update monitoring dashboard

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    June 2025. Find out more   Mental health and addiction system performance report This report provides monitoring findings on the performance of the mental health and addiction system. We do this through presenting a shared view of what a good mental health and addiction system looks