In July 2025, we released our report on ‘Accessing Community Perinatal Mental Health Services 2025.’ Changing Minds spoke to the Lived Experience community to understand the use of community services in Tāmaki Makaurau, the types of support accessed, barriers to access, cultural expectation and experiences, with a focus on acute experiences in the last three years.

We were delighted to collaborate on this project with Jared, an award-winning Tāngata Turi filmmaker with a strong focus on accessibility for the Deaf community. The videos he produced embrace Deaf Lived Experience to create culturally appropriate resources that educate, inform and inspire.

Leading the initiative to enhance effectiveness, professionalism, sustainability and the growth of peer support services in the gambling harm sector.

Rākau Roroa trains and supports a growing network of people who want to use their personal Lived Experience of mental distress and recovery to inspire others.

Whakatau Mai | The Wellbeing Sessions, created by Changing Minds in 2021, is a wide range of free and online wellbeing sessions, helping to safely support your wellbeing from the comfort of your own space. 

recoVRy is a virtual reality project from 2018. The video titled Mockingbird is a maternal mental health story, originally developed as a theatre play. It aims to build awareness and capture the experience of what it was like for women admitted into mental health facilities with a diagnosis of psychosis or mania across four generations.