加大支持力度 为社区一线服务机构提供更多资金和保障
新西兰心理健康部长马特·杜西表示，社区一线服务机构每天都在为新西兰民众提供重要支持，政府将通过增加资金和提高长期合约的确定性，进一步支持这些机构开展工作。
杜西表示，新西兰拥有众多优秀的社区心理健康及成瘾服务机构，在帮助民众方面发挥着重要作用。
“我们非常幸运，拥有这么多优秀的社区心理健康和成瘾服务机构在一线工作。我一直认为，最了解社区需求的是这些非政府组织（NGO），我们的责任就是支持他们做好这项工作。”
从2026年7月1日起，政府每年将额外提供超过3400万新西兰元的资金，帮助相关服务机构应对运营压力，并继续在社区提供必要的心理健康和成瘾服务。
符合条件的大多数社区心理健康及成瘾服务NGO，其政府拨款将增加3.16%，以认可这些机构发挥的重要作用。
杜西表示，政府同时将通过延长服务合约期限，为相关机构提供更大的资金保障。
他说，他接手的是一个约80%的社区心理健康服务机构只能签订一年期合约的体系，“这显然是不够的”。
杜西要求新西兰卫生部门（Health New Zealand）改变与服务机构签订合约的方式，因为那些为社区民众提供支持的机构，需要对未来几年能够提供的服务有更明确的预期。
根据新的安排，原本约80%的机构采用一年期合约、20%采用三年期合约的情况将被逆转。未来约83%的服务机构将获得三年期合约，只有约17%的机构因特定原因继续采用12个月合约。
杜西表示，长期合约能够让服务机构更有信心投资员工队伍，并专注于为部分最脆弱的新西兰民众提供支持，而不是每年担心资金是否能够延续。
数据显示，这些机构的服务正在发挥作用。去年，超过8.2万人接受了专业NGO提供的心理健康及成瘾服务，另有更多民众通过提供初级心理健康服务的社区机构获得帮助。
杜西表示，政府将继续支持那些最了解当地社区需求的机构，因为它们对于让民众更快获得支持、增加一线工作人员以及改善危机应对能力具有重要作用。
他说：“这再次体现了政府在心理健康支持领域解决基本问题、同时建设未来服务体系的努力。”
Backing our frontline community organisations
Our frontline community organisations play a vital role supporting New Zealanders every day, and we are backing them with more funding and greater certainty, Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey says.
“We are incredibly lucky to have so many fantastic community mental health and addiction providers working on the frontline. I have always said it is our NGOs who know their communities best, and our job is to back them to do that work,” Mr Doocey says.
“That’s why they have been provided more than $34 million in additional annual funding from 1 July 2026 to help providers respond to pressures and continue delivering essential mental health and addiction services in their communities.
“The majority of eligible community mental health and addiction NGO contracts have received a 3.16 per cent funding uplift, recognising the vital role they play.”
Mr Doocey says the Government was also delivering greater certainty by moving the vast majority of providers onto three-year contracts.
“I inherited a system where around 80 per cent of community mental health providers were operating on one-year contracts. That simply wasn’t good enough.
“I asked Health New Zealand to change the way it contracts with providers because organisations supporting people in our communities need certainty about what they can deliver in the years ahead.
“Instead of around 80 per cent being on one-year contracts and 20 per cent on three-year contracts, we are flipping that around. Around 83 per cent of providers will now be on three-year contracts, with only around 17 per cent remaining on 12-month agreements for defined reasons.
“Longer-term contracts give providers greater confidence to invest in their workforce and focus on delivering support for some of our most vulnerable New Zealanders, rather than worrying about whether their funding will continue each year.
“We know they are delivering. More than 82,000 people accessed specialist NGO mental health and addiction services last year, while many more received support through community providers delivering primary mental health services.
“We are backing the organisations that know their communities best because they play a vital role in helping us deliver faster access to support, more frontline workers, and a better crisis response.
“This is just another example of how the Government is fixing the basics and building the future when it comes to mental health support in New Zealand.”
