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The advocate for New Zealanders' mental health Friday 3 July

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Perspective / BY Grace Curtis

Yes it's personal

3 min read

Grace Curtis with a personal view about the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Road Map Launch

Yes it's personal

Employers take action!

Opinion / BY Sean Versteegh

Employers take action!

3 min read

Our public system pays for crisis, not prevention. Workplaces have both the reason and the means to change that.

House of cards

Opinion / BY Rob Warriner

House of cards

7 min read

Has leadership in mental health become an abstraction attached to roles, programmes and rhetoric?

INNOVATION

This is how it feels

Innovation / BY Heidi McIlroy

This is how it feels

4 min read

Dr Heidi McIlroy writes "beliefs can become far more damaging than the distress itself. I wanted to create something that challenged that."

New focus, early intervention

Innovation / BY Kimberley de Jardine

New focus, early intervention

1 min read

Online therapy platform, Just a Thought, is making it easier for Kiwis to look after their mental health, with the launch of two new free courses: Coping with Stress and Just a Pause – Intro to Mindfulness.

Leave no-one behind

Innovation / BY Maraea Johns

Leave no-one behind

3 min read

The challenge is delivering a healthcare vision, at pace and at scale, to this who need it most

The hidden cost of caring

Innovation / BY Sonder News Hub

The hidden cost of caring

4 min read

What happens over time, when doing the work turns into carrying the work?

SYSTEMS CHANGE

Building better lives wins award

Systems Change / BY Ben Sando

Building better lives wins award

5 min read

The role of well designed community housing When people ask me why I chose to specialise in community housing, the answer goes back well be

Pretenders

Systems Change / BY Ivan Yeo

Pretenders

4 min read

Ivan Yeo muses perhaps true strength lies in trusting that we can tell the truth about our struggles and still be worthy of love, respect, and belonging.

Fast road mapped

Systems Change / BY Stephen Blythe

Fast road mapped

1 min read

New roadmap calls for faster action on mental health, addiction and wellbeing

Ruinous empathy

Systems Change / BY Magdel Hammond

Ruinous empathy

5 min read

Ruinous empathy, is being nice the common and costly failure of leadership?

WELL BEING

Brave Hearts opens doors in Wellington

Wellbeing / BY Erin Oneill

Brave Hearts opens doors in Wellington

4 min read

Brave Hearts turns ten. Founder Erin says -as we mark that milestone, we are also opening our first Wellington meeting, which feels like the right way to begin our next chapter.

A brain in pain

Wellbeing / BY Nick Scheer

A brain in pain

3 min read

Nick Scheer tells us why he can now see a clear pathway and need for Trauma Informed Practice to sit front and centre in the future of employment services.

The cost of coercion

Wellbeing / BY Peter Bazzana

The cost of coercion

5 min read

Peter Bazzana reviews the changing role of Mental Health Review Tribunal in New South Wales.

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