Body Safety Red Flags

Jayneen Sanders (aka Jay Dale) is an experienced Australian early years educator, children’s book author, and publisher.

She began her teaching career in the 1980s as a primary school teacher in rural Queensland, Australia, before moving to Melbourne, Victoria, to teach at several inner-city schools. In 1985, Jayneen transitioned to a career as an educational editor and publisher.

In the early 1990s, Jayneen and her partner moved to Japan to work as English teachers. They lived and worked there for over three and a half years, during which time Jayneen’s first daughter was born.

Upon returning to Australia, Jayneen began working as an educational author and packager, producing numerous award-winning titles for the educational publishing industry. She is also an accomplished children’s book author, with works featured in literacy series such as ZigZags, Totally Kidz, Deadly and Incredible, and a children’s picture book series for Penguin.

Jayneen is currently the lead author of the ‘Engage Literacy’ series, published by Capstone, for which she has written over 150 titles.

A mother of three daughters, Jayneen served as a school councillor at her local school for over seven years. Her experiences as both a teacher and a parent inspired her to question the efforts being made in schools to protect children from inappropriate touch. Realizing that little was being done, she utilized her authoring and publishing skills to write ‘Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept’ to help parents, carers, and teachers discuss this subject with children and encourage them to speak up.

Following the positive reception of ‘Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept,’ Jayneen recognized a need to expand upon prevention education. She engaged in Protective Behaviours professional development and attended numerous conferences on child safety, body safety, and consent education.

Jayneen subsequently developed and published a comprehensive Body Safety and Respectful Relationship Teacher’s Resource Kit and authored further children’s books on topics including body safety, consent, respect, gender equality, social and emotional intelligence, and diversity and inclusion.

Currently, Jayneen works with her partner, Mark Sanders, to run Educate2Empower Publishing. Her dedication to the safety and empowerment of children continues, with new manuscripts and free resources in development.

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