Integrity Initiative is a Lived Experience grounded health promotion charity to cultivate autonomy, dignity and human rights in mental health conversations and care.
We lead change through custom care packages, interactive and creative workshops, and community engagement, projects and events.
The Vision
People experiencing mental health challenges can engage in services and with supports whilst being and feeling safe
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Carers, supporters, clinicians and loved ones have a known and felt understanding of people’s needs and how to best meet them
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Communities of all kinds positively, proactively engage in the world of mental health
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Core Values
Our Principles
Nothing About Us Without Us
Led exclusively by Lived Experience.
Dignity is a Basic Right
Not a conditional privilege.
Mental Health is Human
not a pathology, profile or label
Optimising Agency Wherever Possible
Autonomy is non-negotiable.
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Operational Branches
We operate through three main branches, each playing a role in how we work towards our overarching goal
Year One Delivery
In our first year, we moved from vision to verified impact. Every number here represents a real person reached, a community strengthened, and a system shifted — one deliberate action at a time.
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Care packages delivered.
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Workshop modules developed
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Community events hosted
The Origin of the Initiative
Systemic change rarely starts in a boardroom. In our case, it began with a simple idea from someone who knows how it feels to be stripped of dignity.
Founder and CEO, Rachael Burns, spent her adolescence navigating mental health challenges and a world that made her feel broken. She found herself lost within a system that didn’t have the knowledge, resources or time to meet her needs, including wards that left her with little to no sense of dignity.
These experiences shaped her, eventually leading her to Peer work - a space that showed her lived experience can be an expertise, not a liability.
As she worked tirelessly, grew confidence, and heard stories like her own time after time, an idea that had been lying silently came to fruition. What began as a simple idea to deliver care packages to people experiencing mental health challenges was just the beginning.
Today, Rachael is a Lived and Living Experience advocate who works across mental health, disability and other social justice causes in an array of roles.
