Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy is a positive step, but people need to see real change

Source: Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing CommissionTe Hiringa Mahara welcomes today’s release of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy and its implementation plan. The Strategy is an important step toward a mental health and addiction system that is easier for people to access and better able to support them when they need help. The plan misses a chance to make faster, clearer improvements for young people’s mental health over the next three years. “It is also not clear enough how the Strategy will tackle the reasons some groups continue to experience poorer mental health and wellbeing outcomes. Editor’s noteRead the Government’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy.