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  • Annual Report 2022/23 highlights

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    ;  We are proud of the work we have done to highlight what is important for the wellbeing of rangatahi and young people in Aotearoa. By drawing on what rangatahi and young people have shared with us and a review of literature we identified four major themes that need action to improve wellbeing

  • Time called on compulsory community mental health treatment

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    Orders report documents how tāngata whaiora, whānau and family, and Māori feel marginalised in processes that determine what treatment they receive.  “The use of compulsory community treatment orders is a practice from mental health that is out of step with human rights and current approaches to

  • Expansion of mental health crisis support services welcomed

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    developed by June 2027.  "A cohesive national approach will set out what is needed and where to supplement services. The challenge is to connect services up for people who need it wherever they live. This includes crisis lines which are under pressure,” Ms Orsborn said. “The current system

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

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    complex cases. For example, vacancies rates sit at 22% for psychologists and 19% for psychiatrists. “What we’re seeing is that under-pressure services have constraints on how many people they can see, with some people not meeting the threshold to access specialist services. Some people can get

  • Our commitment to lived experience

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    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

  • Chief Executive Karen Orsborn opinion piece on coercive practices

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    -making skills at the time. Our current mental health law overrides that right and discriminates on the basis of disability, breaching our country's obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It's important to acknowledge that mental health

  • Focus on youth wellbeing more urgent than ever

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    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

  • Rolling out more options for crisis care

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    different ways and what works for one person, will not necessarily work for another. The critical thing is people have choices and are in control of their own recovery. In our insights paper we describe the range of options that could and, in some cases, do make up the acute care continuum in Aotearoa

  • Could you access mental health or addiction support when you needed it?

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    A big thank you to everyone who gave us feedback on their journey accessing mental health and addiction services. We received over 300 responses through the data collection that we ran in November. This is now closed. We wanted to hear from people seeking help with mental distress or addiction: If

  • Mental health and addiction service access data collection

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    . What is the purpose of the online forms? For our next monitoring report, we are investigating access to mental health and addiction services. We want to know what it is like for people to access mental health and addiction services in Aotearoa, and better understand what service options are available