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Published: 20 April, 2026

“Behind this Bill are 5000 voices who shared their experiences during the government’s Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction back in 2018,” says Te Hiringa Mahara Director of Mental Health and Addiction Sector Leadership, Sonya Russell.

Published: 6 October, 2022

This was supported by connectedness and belonging, clear leadership, innovative practices, and collaboration with and between services and government agencies.

Published: 15 December, 2025

  The conversations notes showed “….a strong appetite for courageous system change, collaboration over competition, and investment that honours lived experience, youth leadership, and community power.”  We acknowledge the facilitation by Ember Innovations team led by Anya Satyanand.

Published: 17 June, 2020

“While change is happening, we want to see Government strengthening the commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi by partnering with Māori and people with lived experience of mental health and addiction to design services – and a system – that everyone can trust.”

Published: November 2025

experience of mental distress and people with lived experience of addiction helped us understand how the Access and Choice programme going three years after its establishment to support more people earlier.

Published: 1 November, 2022

What people told us, and the changes made in response, have been summarised in the following documents below Downloads Summary of consultation with Māori Download Summary of consultation with Māori Download Summary of Lived Experience and Tāngata Whaiora Consultation Download Summary of Lived Experience

Published: 5 March, 2025

  The panel included lived experience insights and representatives from Health NZ and Police. Te Hiringa Mahara facilitated the webinar, and shared findings from our acute options insights paper along with an introduction to work we are doing on monitoring crisis responses.

Published: 17 September, 2021

Hague urged the Select Committee to work with those who have lived experience of conversion therapy to come up with solutions for the concerns raised in the Commission’s submission and those made by rainbow communities.

Published: 24 March, 2025

The conference provides the opportunity to bring together a forum of national and international experience and expertise including te ao Māori (Māori world views), lived/living experience, clinical, funder and systems thinking perspectives.

Published: 16 June, 2026

The six shifts are grounded in the experience of people with lived and living experience of mental distress and addictions.