Submission on He Ara Āwhina framework consultation

Executive Summary

1. The Salvation Army agrees with and supports the He Ara Āwhina framework and its vision for a mental health and addictions system. We believe a framework grounded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi and in partnership with a Te Ao Māori perspective ensures that we are moving forward to a system that addresses the over-representation and better supports Māori. He Ara Āwhina also covers six key domains that are broad and captures outcomes we as an organisation would like to see. We highlight some of the key challenges we see amongst our tāngata whaiora in light of the framework. Our recommendations around monitoring are based on our review of Te Huringa: Change and Transformation report, which includes increasing the scope of monitoring and differentiating mental health and addiction measurable outcomes.

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