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Expert-Designed Child Safety Education for Child-Based Organisations and Educators.

Practical,  research-backed training and resources 
built from a decade on the front line of child protection investigation - so your team knows exactly what to watch for, and what to do next.

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Expert-Designed Child Safety Education for Child-Based Organisations and Educators.

Practical,  research-backed training and resources 
built from a decade on the front line of child protection investigation - so your team knows exactly what to watch for, and what to do next.

Explore Training & Resources Book Kristi to Speak

Why It Matters

Every early childhood educator, teacher, and youth worker is trained on mandatory reporting and child sexual abuse. Almost none are equipped to recognise grooming, or to have the tough, direct conversations with children that actual prevention requires.

And it goes further than knowing the signs. Most educators aren't given the support, language, or organisational backing to call out the grey-area behaviours - the ones that don't scream red flag, that are easy to dismiss or explain away, but that matter most because they're what precedes the obvious stuff. Without that support, even educators who notice something off often don't know how to name it, let alone act on it.

That gap isn't a small one. It's the difference between a team that reacts after harm has already happened, and a team equipped to recognise and interrupt the early, deniable behaviours that precede it - and confident enough to say something when it counts.

Child safety isn't a policy binder. It's a culture, built and maintained by adults who've actually been shown what to look for and given permission to act on it.

From the Interview Room,
to the Classroom

Kristi McVee spent 10 years with the Western Australian Police Force, nearly six of them as a Detective specialising in child sexual abuse investigations, working as a Specialist Child Interviewer conducting formal evidentiary interviews with children who had disclosed abuse. That work requires a level of precision, restraint, and understanding of child disclosure that generic child safety training doesn't touch.

When she left the force in 2020, it was to shift from reactive to proactive - from responding after harm had happened to helping stop it before it starts. She's since worked as an Online Safety Specialist presenting to students from Years 3–12, and delivered talks to parents, educators, and organisations across the country.

Everything Kristi teaches organisations and educators comes directly from that frontline experience - not generic compliance content, but real insight into how offenders gain access, how grooming actually unfolds, and what meaningfully changes an organisation's ability to catch it early.

From the Interview Room, to the Classroom

Kristi McVee spent 10 years with the Western Australian Police Force, nearly six of them as a Detective specialising in child sexual abuse investigations, working as a Specialist Child Interviewer conducting formal evidentiary interviews with children who had disclosed abuse. That work requires a level of precision, restraint, and understanding of child disclosure that generic child safety training doesn't touch.

When she left the force in 2020, it was to shift from reactive to proactive - from responding after harm had happened to helping stop it before it starts. She's since worked as an Online Safety Specialist presenting to students from Years 3–12, and delivered talks to parents, educators, and organisations across the country.

Everything Kristi teaches organisations and educators comes directly from that frontline experience - not generic compliance content, but real insight into how offenders gain access, how grooming actually unfolds, and what meaningfully changes an organisation's ability to catch it early.

Training & Resources for Your Organisation

BODY SAFETY CARD SETS
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Age-specific conversation card decks that educators and carers use to open up body safety conversations with children in a natural, guided way.

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KEEPING LITTLE ONES SAFE

A self-paced professional development course built specifically for early childhood educators, family day care providers, and centre managers. Six modules covering how to spot early signs of abuse and concerning behaviour, recognise subtle grooming tactics, build a physically and emotionally safe environment, teach age-appropriate body safety, and respond confidently if a child discloses - plus checklists, templates, quizzes, and a Certificate of Completion for professional development records. Real-world frontline insight, not theory.

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BODY SAFETY BASICS

Kristi's foundational course for educators and parents on teaching body safety and boundaries to young children - practical language, age-appropriate framing, and confidence to have the conversation.

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Bring This Training Into
Your Organisation

Kristi delivers professional development sessions, staff training, and keynotes for schools, early childhood services, and government and community organisations - covering grooming identification, safe workplace culture, disclosure response, and body safety education frameworks.

Recent sessions include a two-part grooming and child protection series for Gowrie NSW early childhood educators, and a presentation to the Queensland Government's Grooming Prevention Roundtable.

Sessions are tailored to your team's setting and role - early childhood, primary, out-of-school-hours care, or organisational leadership.

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Bring This Training Into Your Organisation

 Kristi delivers professional development sessions, staff training, and keynotes for schools, early childhood services, and government and community organisations - covering grooming identification, safe workplace culture, disclosure response, and body safety education frameworks.

Recent sessions include a two-part grooming and child protection series for Gowrie NSW early childhood educators, and a presentation to the Queensland Government's Grooming Prevention Roundtable.

Sessions are tailored to your team's setting and role - early childhood, primary, out-of-school-hours care, or organisational leadership.

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Practical grooming-awareness insights, case learnings, and safe-culture strategies for people working with children - from someone who's investigated it, not just read about it.

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KidsUni Woolongong

"Kristi has a remarkable ability to take an incredibly complex and sensitive topic and present it in a way that is practical, relatable and easy to understand. Her down-to-earth approach engages participants from the outset, making difficult conversations feel accessible without ever diminishing the seriousness of the issue. Attendees left feeling better informed, empowered and confident in their role in safeguarding children.

 We highly recommend Kristi to any organisation looking to deliver meaningful, impactful child safety education."  

Karnup Schools Network

We were delighted to provide parents across the 15 schools in our network with the opportunity to access this incredibly important learning to help keep children safe. In her honest, “call a spade a spade” style, Kristi empowered and informed parents to approach sensitive conversations with confidence, while supporting their children to establish healthy boundaries and protect themselves online and in everyday situations.

In a world where online gaming, social media and digital communication continue to increase the complexity of parenting, Kristi’s presentation was highly relevant, contemporary and deeply relatable. Drawing on her professional experiences as a Detective, alongside her personal journey as a parent, she connected authentically with families and encouraged them to take action with confidence. Parents left equipped with practical conversational frameworks, strategies and skills they could immediately apply at home.

In an increasingly complex world, where strong partnerships between schools and families are critical to keeping children safe, Kristi’s work is cutting-edge, impactful and an essential learning experience for everyone involved in the lives and education of young people. 

All content, including but not limited to written materials, course content, digital resources, language, frameworks, and original messaging, is the intellectual property of Kristi McVee and CAPE-AU Pty Ltd.

This material is protected under Australian Copyright Law and may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, rebranded, or repurposed without express written permission.

We encourage sharing messages of child safety with credit but copying or commercial use without consent is a breach of trust and the law.

All content, including but not limited to written materials, course content, digital resources, language, frameworks, and original messaging, is the intellectual property of Kristi McVee and CAPE-AU Pty Ltd. 

This material is protected under Australian Copyright Law and may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, rebranded, or repurposed without express written permission. We encourage sharing messages of child safety with credit but copying or commercial use without consent is a breach of trust and the law.