{"id":54749,"date":"2025-08-09T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54749\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:10:09","slug":"campaign-urges-kiwis-to-top-up-their-mental-health-with-everyday-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54749\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign urges Kiwis to \u2018top up\u2019 their mental health with everyday actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zZbQRyor\" style=\"display:none\">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<p class=\"zZbQRyor\" style=\"display:none\">He also said the Government\u2019s approach was not just about treatment, but stopping issues from escalating in the first place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zZbQRyor\" style=\"display:none\">\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<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/advertising.nzme.co.nz\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"zZbQRyor\" style=\"display:none\">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<p class=\"zZbQRyor\" style=\"display:none\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4826,45423,64,63,22806,35819,45424,45422,137,15499,43555,13641,514,515,621,1928,319,4048,8045,45421,3605],"class_list":["post-54749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-actions","tag-aimed","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-been","tag-campaign","tag-encouraging","tag-everyday","tag-health","tag-kiwis","tag-launched","tag-mental","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-national","tag-their","tag-to","tag-top","tag-up","tag-urges","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}