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Voices report: accompanying report to Kua Tīmata Te Haerenga 2024
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important questions about why there is a disconnect between an increasing need for mental health and addiction support and a decrease in people accessing specialist services. We continue to hear about barriers, such as long waiting lists, not knowing how or where to get support, the stigma of
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Karen Orsborn appointed as Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Chief Executive
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clearly to those voices over the last 18 months, particularly people and whānau with lived experience of mental distress and addiction. Through the reporting of the Initial Commission, she advocated strongly for the community’s call for system transformation to be prioritised and advanced by Government
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Karen Orsborn: Full impact of COVID-19 on mental health yet to be seen
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priority. We know how important mental health and wellbeing is to people and echo their calls for a continued focus on delivering tangible improvements and continued investment to lift the wellbeing of our communities, particularly those who have borne the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article was published in the New Zealand Herald on 18 August 2022.
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Pathway for peer support to transform the mental health and addiction workforce webinar
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workforce. We also shared the changes we want to see happen to realise the potential of the peer support workforce, including those across different levels of our health system. Who will be presenting: Tanya Maloney, Director Mental Health and Addiction System Leadership In her role, Tanya provides
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Access and choice mental health programme stacks up
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documents progress establishing the programme, with recommendations on how to ensure it reaches its full potential. “The introduction of the Access and Choice programme has filled gap in support and has substantially increased access for people seeking help for mild to moderate mental health
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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
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Wellbeing
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these approaches can be improved to support greater wellbeing for people, whānau, and communities. Find more information about how we measure wellbeing Our wellbeing reports Te Hiringa Mahara has published reports on the following areas: Te Rau Tira (Wellbeing outcomes report) COVID-19 insights series Youth insights series Find more information on our wellbeing reports
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Understanding wellbeing for rangatahi and young people webinar
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Aotearoa Foundation, shares how OHI Data Navigator is bringing data and story to life to understand and respond to rangatahi needs and aspirations from a grassroots to systems level thinking. Abdulla Shiblaq, Youth Facilitator, Yes Disability, talks about the importance of making crucial services, like mental health services, accessible for the disability community, not just the basic physical accessibility but also accessibility through communications.
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Working towards the transformation of the mental health and wellbeing system
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and functions of the Commission as well as the role of the Commission's Board. Gladys asked her about the things that people need to know and understand about mental health and wellbeing and the current move in Aotearoa to transform our mental health and addiction system. "He Ara Oranga talked about
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Meet our Lived Experience Advisors
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life, and I continue to moonlight as an entertainer (as part of a duo) along the Gisborne/East Coast entertainment scene. Saskia Ymker As an enthusiastic advocate of the restorative power of being ourselves, I have a passion for the Peer movement. I have facilitated Intentional Peer Support trainings