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  • Our brand story

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    . It inspires and ignites our inquiring and inquisitive minds, illuminating and liberating the potential within. On Tuesday, 5 July 2022, we held an event to officially unveil our new name Te Hiringa Mahara. Our new name embraces our role as kaitiaki of mental health and wellbeing and is an

  • Strategy to improve mental health outcomes on the way

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    . It is good that this omission has now been rectified. We look forward to working with Minister Doocey and officials on the strategy, to focus effort toward improving mental health and wellbeing outcomes for people with experience of mental distress and addiction. There were some provisions we drew

  • Our commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi

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    and Te Tiriti o Waitangi position statement. Taking this approach places Te Hiringa Mahara in a unique position of being able to learn from Māori. This is so staff may best respect, understand, and engage with Māori externally. Ngā Ringa Raupā provides a tangata whenua lens, ensuring Te Hiringa Mahara upholds its commitments to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, te ao Māori, and mātauranga Māori across all their work.

  • Te Hiringa Mahara to continue to advocate for young people after Oranga Tamariki Bill passes third reading

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    The Oversight of Oranga Tamariki System and Children and Young People’s Commission Bill, intended to strengthen the oversight of Oranga Tamariki and improve the care and support provided to young people in care, has passed its third reading in Parliament. Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and

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

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    they found help, how easy or difficult it was to get what they needed. If they didn’t find help, what stopped them from getting the help they needed. If they were whānau or supporting someone else, what was their experience. Our focus was on trying to understand issues that people face when they try

  • Access to specialist mental health and addiction services continues to decrease

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    . “Rangatahi and young people aged under 25 make up over 10,000 of the 16,000 fewer people being seen. This requires urgent attention.” “We want to see improved access so people get timely support when they need it.” The reasons behind a reduction in access to services were reported in our 2024 Kua

  • Acute options for mental health care insights paper

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    acute options provides people with viable and welcome alternatives that allow them to stay safe and supported in their local community. A high-quality acute continuum of mental health care can provide a safety net for anyone who needs it, anywhere, and at any time. It provides clear pathways to

  • Achieving equity of Pacific mental health and wellbeing outcomes

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    along with engagement with Pacific communities.  Released 23 May 2024.  Pacific community leaders told us that the ‘Pacific dream’ is about thriving Pacific families in Aotearoa. However, it is clear from our assessment of the data and experience of Pacific people we spoke to, both for

  • Our wellbeing outcome framework

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    in mental health and wellbeing. It is designed as one of the tools to shift the way the whole system is working towards a wellbeing approach. He Ara Oranga wellbeing outcomes framework sits alongside its partner framework, the He Ara Āwhina system monitoring framework that describes what an ideal

  • Speaking up about the Pae Ora amendment bill

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    . While six other strategies were specified, mental health and addiction was not included. It is good that this omission will now be rectified. The purpose of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy is to provide a framework to guide health entities for the long-term improvement of mental health and