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He likened the approach to how people look after their physical health, stressing the need to make preventative actions part of daily life and to reduce stigma around mental illness. <\/p>\n

He also said the Government\u2019s approach was not just about treatment, but stopping issues from escalating in the first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, when someone does reach out for help, whether it\u2019s you, your child, a friend or a family member, this Government is committed to ensuring support is there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Doocey noted progress on cutting wait times and increasing the mental health workforce, with Health NZ figures showing a roughly 10% increase in frontline staff since the Government took office, and over 80% of people now being seen within three weeks for specialist services.<\/p>\n

The campaign, developed by VML in partnership with the Mental Health Foundation, aligns with the Government\u2019s Mental Health Targets by strengthening prevention and early intervention efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He likened the approach to how people look after their physical health, stressing the need to make preventative…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[36],"tags":[48545,80363,33399,12088,80364,80362,210,44759,20642,14012,517,1571,4817,447,1399,67,132,2608,57759,68,1917],"class_list":["post-132544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-actions","tag-aimed","tag-been","tag-campaign","tag-encouraging","tag-everyday","tag-health","tag-kiwis","tag-launched","tag-mental","tag-mental-health","tag-national","tag-their","tag-to","tag-top","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-up","tag-urges","tag-us","tag-with"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115000592683807419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}