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Published: 7 August, 2025

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

Published: 5 June, 2024

infographic provides an update to this quantitative data one year on – up to June 2023 – to observe what has changed and where further work is needed. We also include some of the findings for Māori from our recent monitoring report Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga | The Journey has Begun. Published: July 2024

Published: 27 June, 2024

Hiringa Mahara. Addressing the underlying causes behind poorer mental health for youth is an urgent priority. For example, households with young people residing in them are less likely to have enough income to meet everyday needs than households without young people present. What is clear from the

Published: August 2025

us to inform our monitoring, and we talk to people with lived experience when we monitor wellbeing and when we monitor what is happening in the mental health and addiction system Value and utilise lived experience by drawing on lived expertise by drawing on lived experience wisdom. Research

Published: 2 September, 2025

Piri Pono, a peer led residential service located in Silverdale, Auckland. Piri Pono is one of the case studies in the literature scan. Inspector Matt Morris, Health Partnerships Team Manager, Prevention Team, NZ Police.  Matt will be speaking about Wellington's co-response team, which is a case

Published: June 2024

report measures wellbeing through our He Ara Oranga Wellbeing Outcomes Framework , which was developed alongside communities and created with people with lived experience of poor wellbeing. It reflects what people say matters to them. Our report found that: Most communities in Aotearoa New Zealand

Published: 4 November, 2025

, Director, Take Notice Dr Leeanne Fisher, National Chief Mental Health and Addiction, Heath New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora The session was chaired by Dr Barbara Disley, Te Hiringa Mahara board member. This webinar was the third in a series we have run covering the Commission's work programme examining

Published: 1 June, 2021

Once the He Ara Oranga wellbeing outcomes framework was drafted, the next step was to find what data were available to measure and monitor the performance of the mental health and wellbeing system. In the data phase, the Initial Commission looked at how they could use information collected from

Published: January 2026

  Māori, who make up 17% of the population and have higher rates of mental distress than other population groups, have been advocating for equitable funding for Kaupapa Māori services for decades.   What needs to change? We want to see: Equitable investment in Kaupapa Māori services

Published: 30 September, 2024

use conditions and the distribution among our young population is welcomed, we also advocate for collection of information about wellbeing and what gives children and young people strength. Wellbeing more broadly considers determinant factors and other sources of individual and family capability