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Competition. Enter the draw to win FREE registration
Only six days until the launch of the peer supervision and job recruitment forum for human service professionals. People who join up BEFORE the launch on Jan 8 at 6pm (Brisbane EST) are in the running to win one of three FREE registration packs: ...
Why you need to teach your kids about safety and protection from child sex abusers
Innocence spoilt or innocence preserved? Parents the world over debate against anyone teaching their children about that disgusting and perverted sex stuff: “When should I start teaching my child about Protective Behaviours? Not now surely. The...
Tissue paper recycling crafts for youth workers and foster carers
What shall we do today that is quick, easy, encourages recycling and provides opportunities for teachable moments? Sound a familiar thought? Apart from the parents among us, youth workers and foster carers are always on the lookout for such activitie...
How to stop kids from fighting with each other
My work with parents and foster carers, and my job as a Mum, tells me that everywhere, all over the world, parents worry about the fights between their children. Parents and foster carers often tell me that siblings fight: fight like wild animals and...
White Balloon Day 2009 for child sexual assault
White Balloon Day is on Tuesday 8th September. White Balloon Day is a national event: it is a day we all get to be involved in protecting children against sexual assault. Currently one in five children are sexually assaulted before their 18th birthd...
BITSS to protect kids
Do you know the five important BITSS to keep kids safe from sexual assaults? If you sat a test, how much Parent Sense would you have around protective behaviours? Do you know about No, Go, Tell? Did you know that it is YOUR JOB to help keep your kids...
Preventing Burn Out
Preventing Burn Out: 5 Tips for Establishing Boundaries with Patients This post was contributed by Tara Miller, who writes about the online psychology degree. She welcomes your feedback at TaraMillerr00 at yahoo.com When working with children it’s...
One second to save a life
What would you do if you had one second to change the future? Alison Kewl’s husband fought for his one second but Alison and her children were robbed of all of their one seconds with him for ever after, Amen. Now she spends a second with all ...
Why be a foster carer?
Would you become a foster carer? Why/why not? There is a desperate need for quality foster carers across Australia. I am interested to know what stops you from opening up your life and home to a child who needs protection and stability. Leave your co...
Vote for ACT for kids in the Cannon Creative for a Cause photographic competition
Can you help raise $60,000 for abused kids? Yes you can – all we need is your vote! With your vote ACT for Kids can win $60,000 in cash from Canon to help treat and prevent child abuse. If you’re as passionate about helping Aussie kids as we ...
Bibliotherapy and books to help kids solve problems
Do you know what bibliotherapy is? Read on or click Megan’s book, that’s it above, to learn how to use a story to solve a problem. The process of providing advice through books, any books, is called bibliotherapy. While self-help books,...
Child counselling
What happens in child counselling? Because of confidentiality many parents remain unaware of what the child counsellor is doing and why they are doing it. In 10 steps to counselling children, I have set out the steps that many child therapists take i...
So Sexy So Soon. What parents can do to protect their kids
SO SEXY SO SOON The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids by Diane E. Levin, Ph.D. and Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D. (this is a book review) In an age of wild girls and bad boys, this is the first book that helps parents und...
The cost of child abuse
The Australian Childhood Foundation and Child Abuse Prevention Research Australia at Monash University are set to launch two important outcomes for Australian children. At 1.00pm on Tuesday 18th November at BMW Edge, Federation Square, Hon Jenny Mack...
Making Safety Plans with children in domestic violence
How to start talking about safety plans is a question that leaves many parents (and workers) silent and unsure. Here’s an introductory and fun exercise (compliments of one of my supervisees) that can then be used to prove to kids that they have...
Advertising opportunity for child focused accommodation
Imaginif will be reviewing and assessing child focused accommodation, restaurants or entertainment venues and blogging the results to the whole world. During the months of December and January, Megan Bayliss is travelling the East Coast of Queensland...
How to under whelm yourself
Stress and busyness often bring on bad parenting: yelling, swearing, scaring and emotionally withdrawing. I’ve been there. I’ve done it. Stressed to the maximum and overwhelmed, often parents take their feelings out on their children: One...
Can Cairns Reclaim the Night for safety this Halloween
Tonight marks the 32nd anniversary of an organised movement to keep the streets safe for our women and children rather than asking women and children to stay indoors for their own safety. All over the world, the last Friday in October is, Reclaim The...
Duracell powers parents for child safety
Child Protection is a community responsibility. Every parent has the power to assist in keeping their children safe. Child Safety is not the job of the government who often only intervene AFTER harm has occurred. You have the power to keep your kids ...
Program Manager Vacancy ACT for Kids Cairns
Is this the job for you? ACT for Kids is a well-respected not for profit organisation which works with families and communities to keep children safe from harm. We support parents to care for kids, partner with others to build child friendly communit...
Family Violence must stop
Out of the mouths of babes: There is no excuse for abuse! Domestic violence is child abuse. This postcard was made by an Australian Aboriginal child for a Domestic Violence Prevention Program in 2005. Why is it that three years on, nothing has chang...
Five child safety tips for Halloween
Send the children out in groups of at least five. Five is a good safety number and the number of people we should all have in our own safety network. Mix up the ages in the group. A group of five ten year olds will result in five feedback stories bas...
Imaginif teaching protective behaviours began at birth
url = \\\\'http://www.imaginif.com.au/imaginif-teaching-protective-behaviours-began-at-birth/\\\\';When should you start teaching your children protective behaviours? From birth! Protective behaviours, child protection and child safety is a culture, ...
Time for Tea, kids and a Thera Tea leaf reading
Family time is something that seems to have almost disappeared from the modern family. Two incomes needed to survive, many work outside of the home families struggle to intimately know each other or even keep in touch with each other. Kids in daycare...
Child sex horror in school toilet
Sex act horror in South Australian school toilets By Michael Owen, September 04, 2008 06:58am, Article from: The Advertiser Men wait in school toilets during class sleepover Girl threatened into performing an act of indecency No public alert from ...
View from my window prevents burnout
In a supervision session, I asked my young supervisee when she last had a mental health day (a day off, a day to herself). She was able to answer immediately and added that her agency endorsed regular mental health days as a prevention against burn o...
Stranger Danger, No, Go, Tell, BITSS of stopping child abuse
An unknown man in a white van stalks school children in our area: School Perv Alert. A stranger to many, he is known to someone and his predatory behaviours will not have occurred in isolation. There will have been other signs throughout his develo...
Deals Direct with Animals for Child Safety.
DealsDirect has cottoned onto the advertising strength of the blogosphere. They have dangled a competition carrot in front of the eyes of we Aussie Bloggers: Blog it to win it: Australian Blogger Competition For a chance to WIN a new laptop, a 22...
Privacy verses secrecy
Secrets are bad. They are banned in the Imaginif house and business. Secrets make people all scrambled up in the head. Why would anybody want to hold knowledge that they are not allowed to tell anybody else, ever? Sex predators, paedophiles, child ab...
Play is children’s work
Play is an important, healthy and functional part of development. If children are denied opportunity for play their development becomes constipated. Social Workers and Psychologists assess for age and development appropriate play tools and opportunit...
