The Mental Health Foundation welcomes the draft Disability Strategy's focus on improving outcomes for disabled people, and its role in giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
We recommend the Strategy be strengthened by:
- Showing clearer support for people with long-term mental health challenges, neurodivergence and other cognitive impairments
- Detailing explicit actions to improve the mental health and wellbeing of all disabled people
- Adopting the Enabling Good Lives principles
- Strengthening its commitments to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and
- Providing clarity on how its proposed actions will be assigned, resourced and measured.
Submission on the National Disability Strategy Refresh 2025 (pdf)