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  • Bigger role for mental health and addiction peer support workforce called for

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    part of the frontline workforce, but they have a wider role too. Alongside other lived experience roles, they can help transform the landscape of mental health and addiction services,” Ms Orsborn said.    “There is huge potential for further development of the Māori peer workforce to

  • Independent Commission’s report highlights the importance of improving access and choice for mental health and addiction services in Aotearoa

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    services, this may not include those who find co-payment a barrier to visiting their GP. This presents a significant equity issue,” Wano says. While there are a number of areas that need more focus, overall he says it is exciting to see the momentum created by the Access and Choice programme. “Now we need

  • Rolling out more options for crisis care

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    . Alongside traditional inpatient care, there is a wide variety of peer-led, community-based, and Kaupapa Māori approaches we can draw on. Tāngata whaiora (people seeking wellness), have told us that an effective crisis response system has a number of important qualities. They want someone they can call

  • Focus on youth wellbeing more urgent than ever

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    More evidence of the state of New Zealand youth mental health — Youth and rangatahi wellbeing and access to services assessment — has been released today and shows that while most youth and rangatahi are doing well, there is a steady decline in youth wellbeing in comparison to older age groups more

  • Time called on compulsory community mental health treatment

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    CCTO continue to live at home and are still able to work or study.    “We were told forced treatment can have a negative impact on peoples’ trust in and engagement with services. This is the opposite of what is needed to facilitate recovery,” Mr Wano said.  The number of people

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

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    ?   The COVID-19 pandemic, the increasingly severe natural disasters and the cost of living crisis has led to mounting concerns about whether services are readily available.  Mental health is more visible than ever before, and not always for the right reasons.   What we need

  • Guide to language in He Ara Āwhina

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    the number of gambling machines or alcohol stores in a community. Co-produce A process in which tāngata whaiora and whānau are involved in planning, design, delivery, and evaluation of services or supports, policy, research, or training. It involves a genuine partnership between tāngata whaiora

  • Official Information Act requests

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    entitlements Date published: 4 February 2025 Response date: 11 December 2024 View/download PDF: MHWC2024-009 Parental leave entitlements [PDF, 472KB] FTEs and salaries Date published: 4 February 2025 Response date: 4 October 2024 View/download PDF: MHWC2024-008 Number of FTE and salaries [PDF

  • Infographic - assessment of youth and rangatahi wellbeing and access to services

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    services, including inpatient care in adult facilities. While young people continue to be admitted to adult inpatient units, the number has fallen in the last year. Outcomes framework The He Ara Oranga wellbeing outcomes framework presents a set of long-term mental health and wellbeing outcomes, at a

  • Where did the $1.9 billion Wellbeing Budget go?

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    June 2023. Of the unspent $163.8 million, almost $62 million was set aside for capital works. “The vast majority of the $1.9 billion investment has been spent and we can now show where the money went,” said Karen Orsborn, Chief Executive. “We have documented where the money went because we thought it