{"id":71884,"date":"2025-08-10T07:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71884\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:54:11","slug":"campaign-urges-kiwis-to-top-up-their-mental-health-with-everyday-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71884\/","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":71885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[14428,51618,21854,13171,51619,51617,97,7200,48702,984,259,260,6377,6595,826,1867,2944,25911,568],"class_list":["post-71884","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-mentalhealth","tag-national","tag-their","tag-to","tag-top","tag-up","tag-urges","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}