Posts Tagged ‘NZ mental health services’

Homeless squeezed between housing crisis and support clampdown

Thursday, October 17th, 2024

Each day in New Zealand 30,000 people are sleeping rough on city streets and in parks – about the same number as the population of Ashburton. Thousands more are couch surfing, living in vehicles and constantly moving through a series of short-term temporary accommodation. The latest statistics released showed that New Zealand has about 102,000 Read more

Mental health and NZ’s suicide rate — what’s happening?

Thursday, June 1st, 2017

Mike King is a straight-up sort of guy. He calls a spade a spade. I don’t know him well, but whenever I’ve spent time with him his authenticity has radiated from his heart. King cares about mental health. He cares about saving lives. He cares about people. And he won’t waste his time with buck-passing Read more