for Use Your Voice, a children’s book on a farm dog’s journey through depression. The book follows Jess, a black huntaway who loses her voice and faces social exclusion in her rural community. Poppy, a dachshund on the farm, helps her through her recovery.

Juliette Sivertsen

for Just Listen, a seven-part New Zealand Herald podcast series on how to support someone with serious and ongoing mental distress. Each episode explores how friends and whānau members have helped their loved ones get through tough times.

for Out of My Mind, a seven-part podcast series which shares people’s stories of what it’s like to live with mental distress. The series, which was hosted on stuff.co.nz, won a 2020 Voyager Award for joint Best Episodic/Recurrent Podcast.

for Fight or Flight, a six-chapter, animated documentary series which confronts the myths surrounding anxiety and depression. Each chapter addresses these myths from the perspectives of young New Zealanders.

for Aroha’s Way, a children’s book which normalises the four key symptoms of anxiety – nervousness, fear, apprehension and worrying thoughts. The book follows Aroha’s own experiences and shows parents and teachers how to help young people in distress in a soothing and non-judgmental way.

for Māori experiences of NZ’s mental health services, an exposé around Māori experiences with distress. Published on The Hui, the article and video explore Te Ao Māori views on what experiencing psychosis, seclusion and negating schizophrenia diagnoses can mean and how Māori can recover in a way that works for them.

Hamish Oakley-Browne

for Open Books, an art exhibition and short film questioning what recovery means to different people.

for The Inside Word, a six-part panel show for TVNZ Duke. Each week, Jehan interviewed three guests about topics such as cyber-bullying or body image, leading to raw, honest and compelling stories about their mental distress experiences.

for Busting The Myths, a series of short Spoken Word poetry videos addressing the impact of mental distress and intergenerational trauma on young people in Aotearoa.

REcollective Theatre Company

for deVine, a stage play exploring one whānau’s three-generation-long tensions and experiences with mental distress. The play cast New Zealand actresses Romy Hooper, Cian Elyse White and Esmee Myers to perform lead roles, and was performed in Whāngārei, Kaitaia and Kerikeri.

for Through the Maze, a stuff.co.nz feature series looking at the 150-year evolution of New Zealand's mental health system from big institutions, where people were kept "out of sight, out of mind", to today's community care model with an increasing focus on resilience and mental wellness.

Rachel Ross 

for Have you tried, maybe, not worrying, a short film which encourages openness and discussion around the experience of anxiety. The film aims to reduce prejudice and discredits misconceptions that you can ‘will’ anxiety away or ‘conquer’ it by eating, sleeping and exercising.

for Down on the Farm: Rural families and mental health in the South, a four-page rural resource delivered to 38,500 rural families.