26 years ago, Rachel Downie became an educator because she wanted to help our youth flourish. She has worked in both public and private school settings; students have filled her every day in her work as Head of Faculty, Head of Welfare, Deputy Principal and Classroom Teacher. Rachel has always felt that the most challenging students are an opportunity to do her best work and that education is an empowering way to touch lives and hearts, give young people choices and empower them to be a citizen of the world so they can lift the human spirit. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” FREDERICK DOUGLASS After losing a Year 9 student to suicide, Rachel decided that she needed to find a way to support our young people to say something when things ‘aren’t right’. She discovered that in emergent situations, students often felt too frightened to come forward with possible life-saving information, due to their social expectations and Australia’s cultural acceptance of bullying. This led Rachel to developing Stymie – harm reporting without fear. Rachel developed Stymie with extensive consultation, research and input from students and educators; since 2014 Rachel has presented Stymie to more than 600 000 students nationally and students use it to save and change lives every single day. Implemented both nationally and internationally, students are using Stymie to anonymously report family violence, bullying, cyber-bullying, depression, illegal activity, harassment, self-harm, and harm to their communities.