Megan Bayliss and Paul Martin

Megan Bayliss and Paul Martin are married, live in Cairns Australia , and share a vision of ensuring all children's safety.

Megan is a social worker (BSW, Dip SOC, MAASW) and Paul is an accountant. They started Imaginif in 2005 as a way for Megan to market the BITSS model of Protective Behaviors.

Along with supervision of Social Work and Psychology professionals, Megan writes (see her book in the shop and check out her articles at Helium ), trains and teaches part time.

Above that, Megan is found hanging out in Imaginif's Talk Safety forum and writing blogs in her snippets of free time.

Paul is the commercial sense behind Imaginif because Megan fails to comprehend balance sheets!

Paul works as a business consultant and accountant (somebody has to pay the bills) but has a strong social justice streak. He shares Megan's passion in child protection.  Paul wouldn't know how to post a blog if his life depended on it!

Jade Pinto
Imaginif sales guru (Jade is Megan's daughter and is trustee of Imaginif Pty Ltd).

Hello and welcome from me.
Imaginif Pty Ltd is a family owned, Protective Behavior company that offers a range of protective play ideas, teachable moments and toys to anyone wanting to protect the world's children from abuse, especially sexual abuse.
Helping you to protect your own children is Imaginif's business. We have a team of bloggers, each with their own area of child protection interest and a hopping forum that we encourage you to hop into.

Although I work as a shop manager for a large Australian communications company, at Imaginif I look after all the sales, advertising and market Mum's books.

Imaginif...there was a world without child abuse. Imaginif...you helped to end it.
Imaginif...you were a leader!

Rebekah Allen
Rebekah Allen is a psychologist employed as a specialist child counselor at Hambledon House Community Centre, Edmonton ( Australia ). 

Rebekah's service involves working with children, young people and families at risk of or experiencing sexual, physical, emotional abuse, violence or neglect.

Mother of three, Rebekah has an interest in preventing self-harm in children and young people. Her weekly blogs will inform you about self-harm actions, prevention, reactions and treatment. Sad that so many children harm themselves as a way to display their internal pain, Rebekah delivers this child safety topic in a way that few people will run from.

Keran Thomas

Keran Thomas

Keran Thomas is a Social Worker in private practice (Birdwing Therapies) in beautiful Cairns , Australia. She has specialized in ‘Creative Family Solutions' through family therapy, assisting families to be fully involved in the process of working out creative safety solutions to meet the challenges they are facing at home, school and work.

Dedicated to ensuring that children have a voice and are kept safe at all times, Keran weaves her magic through expressive therapies with adults and children.

Keran blogs here weekly on issues, ideas and exercises that help children to express their emotions and create internal safety and she throws in a good dose of parent safety too (self-care and well-being – bring it on Keran).

Keran also facilitates a delightful children's program called The Group of the Red Tree and Megan will work hard to encourage Keran to share some of the program's success and enchantment .

Charmayne Paul

I am a newly created foster mum of two (9 & 14 year olds; male and female respectively). Providing care and protection to children in need was the next step in making use of my knowledge and skills in psychology, and contributing more to my community.
I also tutor online and one-to-one, run workshops for youth and adults and somehow find the time to design research studies for local organisations and businesses.
Love my garden, bush walking with the kids, and am an aspiring writer/poet. Let me know if there is a particular topic you'd like me to feature on my blog.

...may there always be dragonflies in your dayz...

Lisa Dickson

Lisa Dickson

As a former foster child, my passion is advocating for foster children, publicizing the challenges that they face and addressing their developmental and emotional needs through workshops.  This is what I will be blogging about here.

After my mother's death and father's abandonment, I grew up in a series of temporary placements from ages twelve to sixteen. My placements included an all-girls group home, a co-ed group home and an emergency shelter. After starting college at the age of sixteen, I was legally emancipated.

Like many teens who age out of foster care, I entered the adult world without a safety net. I experimented with high-risk behavior, struggled with poverty and even experienced a period of homelessness. Eventually, I found a surrogate family in my peers at a college dorm.

I received a graduate degree from the University of Kentucky in 1998, and became a wife and stepmother on July 1st, 2000. I have finally established a family of my own, but it took hard work and many years to achieve it. My goal is to make this journey easier for others.

To find out more about me, visit me in the US of A at Sunshine Girl on a Rainy Day, here (blog) and here (website).

Jeanette Harvey

Following a career of over 15 years in government and community service roles Jeanette Harvey set out to transfer her skills to the private sector and commenced her coaching and training business in 2003. 

This came about following a lifetime of being the ‘rescuer' and realizing the debilitating effects this can have.  Hence the search for what really works with enabling and empowering people to break free of their limiting beliefs, decisions and negative emotions.

For the past four years Jeanette has worked with individuals and organizations, utilizing skills gained from completing a Diploma in Ontological Coaching and becoming qualified as an MBTI practitioner.

As a well known advocate and trainer within the area of youth mentoring since 2000 – Jeanette has been invited to present at a national level and recently was the Queensland representative on the panel formed to review the Australian youth mentoring benchmarks.

Her journey is taking her to the UK in July 2007 where she will continue living and working her passion.

Jace Shoemaker-Galloway

Jace is the Regional Office of Education Internet Safety Coordinator (USA).
For the past two years, she has championed Internet Safety education and awareness not only in her elementary school, but entire region.

She works with over 500 children weekly, in a computer lab environment, writes a regular newspaper column on Internet Safety issues, has developed presentations she provides to parents and educators, is the Chairperson of a team of community leaders, has developed and implemented online safety curriculums, has authored an anti-cyber bullying policy, and is a mother of two teenagers.

Internet Safety is not just job for her, it is her passion!!
Visit her Internet Safety educational resource blog at Internet Safety Advisor for important online safety information.

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