The Carly Ryan Foundation is a non profit, registered harm prevention charity created to promote internet safety and prevent crime following the tragic murder of Carly Ryan, aged 15 years, by an online predator posing as a teenage boy. The foundation supports families and the community through education, counselling, engagement, harm prevention, promotion and political advocacy. The Carly Ryan Foundation’s mission is to make the Internet safer for children and families. The foundation has pioneered efforts to raise public awareness about the dangers of online child abuse, sexual predators, cyber bullying, and other Internet threats creating solutions that promote shared responsibility between the public, technology and the law, standing for a community where all people are respected and valued; for a child’s innocence to be protected and for a society free from online sexual exploitation of youth.