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  • Leadership as a mental wellbeing system enabler report

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    drive cross-government leadership to address mental health and wellbeing. We make the following calls to action: 1.   Ensure Māori lived experience leaders are prioritised in the changes to health system structures following the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora. 2.  Resource and

  • Our relationships

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    joining our lived experience mailing list advocating together to bring about change sharing your views, experiences and hopes for the future when we are monitoring parts of the mental health, addiction and wellbeing system. Sign-up to our lived experience mailing list.  First name Family name Email address I want to receive Lived experience updates and news You must enable JavaScript to submit this form

  • Achieving equity of Pacific mental health and wellbeing outcomes

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    housing and better mental health Pacific communities and organisations are doing the mahi, but system support is needed Enabling communities to deliver on better wellbeing outcomes works Wrap around support to address wider wellbeing will achieve improved Pacific mental health outcomes By Pacific

  • Rolling out more options for crisis care

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    Allen, the founder of Taranaki Retreat, explains this concept using the language of a “window of opportunity”: seeing crisis as a moment in time where there is an opportunity for tāngata whaiora and their supporters to address what is leading to the distress and to find alternative and sustainable

  • More investment needed for kaupapa Māori mental health and addiction services

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    disparities faced by Māori in mental health outcomes, and calls for the need for change to address these inequities.The tangata whaiora Māori who contributed to the report emphasised the funding disparity.  “Approximately 30 per cent of Māori will experience mental distress to the level categorised as

  • Peer mental support role in EDs is a positive move

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    models of care and addressing wider workforce shortages. It’s important that the Māori lived experience workforce, who bring a Te Ao Māori perspective, are included in planning.”   The Commission has provided advice to the Minister for Mental Health that will address other pressure points

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

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    Government and health agencies to accelerate improvement in a range of critical areas. This included a call for Health NZ to develop a mental health and addiction workforce plan to address service capacity and workforce shortages by June 2025. “We will be keeping a close watch on access and will

  • Mental health and addiction targets welcomed

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    The announcement of targets to address wait times and workforce pressures across the mental health and addiction system has been welcomed by Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. “Access to appropriate services when and where they are needed is very important to people seeking

  • Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission calls for stronger action to transform key areas of the mental health and addiction system

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    more is needed to address pressures on specialist services, particularly for young people. “The current health reforms, and the newly-created Health NZ and the Māori Health Authority, provide opportunities to embed strong leadership in their operating models and enhance the focus on mental health and

  • Mental Health Bill

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    mental health care. Regarding policy objectives, we welcome the Bill’s express purposes, principles underpinning limited use of “compulsory care”, and recognition of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. These important changes will partially address policy problems of sustained and inequitable use of the current Act