Search

Published: January 2024

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

Published: 5 June, 2024

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

Published: January 2026

and application form. Please email your completed application form with your resume and cover letter to hr@mhwc.govt.nz . You will receive an acknowledgement email within one business day so please do contact us if you have not heard back. Te reo title | Have your say Te Hiringa Mahara aims to hear

Published: 6 October, 2022

for the future,” says Dr. Filipo Katavake-McGrath, Te Hiringa Mahara Director of Wellbeing System Leadership and Insights. “Just because these wellbeing dimensions are less tangible, does not mean that they are less influential in creating stress and distress. In fact, understanding the real impacts

Published: August 2025

We have promised to uphold a ‘nothing about us, without us’ approach and to work together to improve wellbeing and transform the mental health and addiction system. We monitor lived experience leadership and participation across the system and advocate for improvement. Our Lived Experience Position

Published: March 2026

paper. The paper documents the discussion which answered two provocative questions: What does the primary care landscape need to look like? How do we get there? This discussion followed the release in April 2025 of our final monitoring report on the Access and Choice programme. During development of

Published: July 2024

that was not the gender they were assigned at birth, or a gender assigned at birth that was not male or female. For General Social Survey respondents, this data was only available for people aged 18 years and over. 5. High or very high psychological distress is defined as a score of 12 or more on the

Published: 15 December, 2025

for a 2026 conference. TheMHS and Te Hiringa Mahara are working in partnership to run Hauora hinengaro: He ara tūroa as an annual event.   For TheMHS executive director Peter Gianfrancesco, this is about more than a conference.  “What we do, and what we have been doing for thirty

Published: 14 May, 2026

had a very strong relationship with mental wellbeing. From a Te Ao Māori perspective, whānau-related indicators complement other indicators of social connection. Building on insights from our two Wellbeing assessments of people who interact with mental health and addiction services, we have considered

Published: 5 December, 2024

Crown Entities Act 2004 and meet our obligations under the Public Finance Act 1989. They provide government and the public with a substantive report on how we have progressed with achieving our objectives and how we have used our funding.  Download 2023-2024 Te Hiringa Mahara annual report pdf, 1.1 MB Download