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    June 2024. Updated June 2025. View the dashboard   Mental health and addiction service monitoring Two new data summaries provide updated data on access and trends for mental health and addiction services, with the second one focused on addiction specialist services. Published May 2025

  • Focus on youth wellbeing more urgent than ever

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    longer wait times for specialist services and decreasing rates of access for these services. We know from other research from Te Hiringa Mahara that addressing root causes of mental health and wellbeing such as improving trust, household income, and fostering intergenerational connection and inclusion

  • Unicef report highlights Aotearoa New Zealand's low ranking for child and youth mental health and wellbeing

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    people has not risen at the same level as other parts of the system. Youth-focused mental health services are important as young people are currently facing longer wait times for specialist mental health and addiction services. Over the last five years there has been a general decline in young people

  • Mental Health Bill

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    statements about future care. We support the Bill’s introduction of assessment of people’s decision-making capacity as part of new criteria for compulsory assessment and treatment of people. This is a welcome shift towards a modern supported decision-making legislative framework for specialist

  • Where to get support

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    0800 942 8787. Phone counselling is available Monday to Friday, 1pm–10pm and weekends, 3pm–10pm. Online chat is available 7pm–10pm daily. Specialist helplines OUTLine NZ : 0800 688 5463 (OUTLINE) provides confidential telephone support for sexual and gender identity. Seniorline : free phone 0800

  • Holding a mirror up to the mental health and addiction system

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    Mahara outlines progress toward improving mental health and wellbeing outcomes for New Zealanders and shows the need to speed up much needed improvements across the system. “Efforts to improve the system over the past six years have shown some early positive movement however these changes are not yet

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

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    accessing specialist mental health and addiction services has decreased over a five-year time frame. In 2022/23, 3.4% of the population accessed a specialist service, a decrease from 3.8% in 2018/19. This is a drop of 9,000 people using these services. Of those seeking specialist support the decrease for

  • Webinar: achieving equitable wellbeing outcomes for tāngata whaiora

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    lived experience perspectives of social determinants. Our speakers were: Alex El Amanni, Addiction Practitioner and Counsellor, Te Hiringa Mahara board member Laura Ross, Kaitohu Mātaamua o te Pūnaha Toiora | Principal Advisor Wellbeing System, Te Hiringa Mahara Professor Te Kani Kingi, Executive

  • Governance

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    populations who are at greater risk of experiencing poorer mental health and wellbeing. Board members are appointed for their governance and mental health and wellbeing sector expertise but do not act as representatives or advocates for specific communities. They do, of course, draw on their

  • Top priorities for New Zealand's first Minister for Mental Health

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    is a responsive mental health and addiction system where those that are most impacted by mental distress get the right support. This needs to be specific to the unique needs of communities, particularly those who already experience disadvantage. And support needs to be available when it is required