{"id":5941,"date":"2023-06-27T17:38:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T05:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5941"},"modified":"2023-06-27T17:38:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T05:38:18","slug":"call-for-more-mental-health-funding-to-go-towards-kaupapa-maori-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5941","title":{"rendered":"Call for more mental health funding to go towards kaupapa M\u0101ori services"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new report says funding for M\u0101ori mental health and addiction services is unfair, resulting in treatment inequalities for M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n

The report<\/a>, by Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission, says about 30 percent of M\u0101ori experience distress to the point of mental illness in any year.<\/p>\n

It appeals for more funding for kaupapa M\u0101ori services – services by M\u0101ori, for M\u0101ori – to help alleviate these high levels of mental ill health.<\/p>\n

“We’re calling for a more equitable level of funding going towards kaupapa M\u0101ori organisations” – Hayden Wano\u00a0duration<\/span>3\u2032\u2009<\/span>:<\/span>15\u2033<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
from Morning Report<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The report said the last comprehensive prevalence study of mental health disorders in M\u0101ori was conducted in 2006, finding it to be just shy of 30 percent.<\/p>\n

Te Hiringa Mahara\/Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Board chairperson Hayden Wano said more recent surveys found “mental distress across all population groups has increased” since then – presumably including M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n

“Relying on that older prevalence data, the rates for Pacific people are about 24 percent, and for other ethnicities, it’s about 19 percent of people with some form of mental disorder, diagnosable mental disorder. So that’s the gap if you like,” he told RNZ’s\u00a0Morning Report\u00a0<\/i>on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“So we’re calling for a more equitable level of funding going towards kaupapa M\u0101ori organisations.”<\/p>\n

While individual programmes have seen impressive funding boosts – Wano singling out\u00a0the Access and Choice programme<\/a>, which helped people with “mild-to-moderate mental health and addiction needs”.<\/p>\n

The share of its funding that went to kaupapa M\u0101ori providers rose from about 10 percent in 2019 to 20 percent now.<\/p>\n

“That’s a direction that’s been set and we’re encouraging for that trend to continue.”<\/p>\n

But it was not just about money, Wano said: “It’s about the way that we go about commissioning for those services.<\/p>\n

“So we’re advocating for M\u0101ori communities, iwi, hap\u016b, kaupapa M\u0101ori providers to be actively engaged in the process of design. And we’ve seen some of that in the Access and Choice approach. There’s been a different approach taken there and as a result of that we’re seeing an increasing uptake, building the capability of service providers in that area.<\/p>\n

“So it’s a good example. So, you know, there is hope within this process. And again, we’re encouraging just more of that to happen and replicate that more across, across the motu.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

VIA RNZ<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new report says funding for M\u0101ori mental health and addiction services is unfair, resulting in treatment inequalities for M\u0101ori. The report, by Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission, says about 30 percent of M\u0101ori experience distress to the point of mental illness in any year. It appeals for more funding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5943,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions\/5943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}