Educational Trauma is an emotional response due to harmful systemic practices perpetuated by educators and unhealthy learning environments that often have harmful long-term effects on students. Often, the trauma caused is not intentional, but a result, sadly, of a broken education system that doesn’t give the individual and their family quality support and educational care.

Nhuubala Yugal Educational Centre (NYEC) provides educational consultancy and supervision for students that have experienced trauma from a previous educational setting. Trauma experienced over a long period of time, can have tremendous impact on a child’s learning journey. Student’s may exhibit signs of refusal to attend, increasing depression, anxiety and decreasing understanding of their self-worth. Many families who receive these supports are government welfare or are low-income earners. These services are delivered free of charge.

Our consultancy services aim to assess and identify the impacts of educational trauma for students and their families and develop strategies and a healthy educational pathway for healing, recovery and engagement for education.

Alongside our consultancy services we also offer outreach services including a school connect programme supporting students to increase attendance and achieve consistent engagement with learning, and a Grassroots Learning Trailer programme aimed at meeting students in their communities and increase literacy and numeracy rates amongst some of the most disadvantaged in our community.

Disengagement Assessment & Recovery Plan Creation
We meet with students and their key workers to discuss previous educational experiences, identify triggers and challenging behaviours being experienced and displayed and work together to create a Recovery Plan to help get back on the path to positive educational experiences and engagement.

Supervision & Transition Services
Our supervision services assist with the implementation of the developed strategies and educational pathway, supporting students to recover and heal from harmful past experiences, and engage in mainstream education, whether it be in a classroom of via an alternative distance education programme of learning. Sometimes a student requires additional support to transition from classroom-based learning to a government agreed educational 200-day transition plan, requiring intense 1:1 supports for the duration of this plan. NYEC provides qualified staff to implement the transition plan, aswell as liase with Distance Education staff and local education staff. Agreements are made on a term-by-term basis to allow for changes in the transition plan and a variation of services.

Distance Education & Homeschooling Support Services
Distance Education is available in NSW from both Public of Independent ‘Schools’. These schools usually provide an online learning platform for the student to access, complete and then submit their work. Some students require a learning environment away from a classroom, and away from home. NYEC provides a Learning Lounge space and resources for students to be able to access and complete their work and have access to Education Mentors that can guide and support them to complete their enrolment obligations with chose education provider.

School Connect
Our School Connect services provide necessary supports to parents and carers who have low attendance and engagement rates in local schools. To begin with we assess what the needs are for attendance to immediately increase. Reasons can include lack of resources to provide lunches each day, need for consistent yet flexible morning pick up service, or inter-mediary communication support between home and school. Sometimes the delivery of these supports lasts for a term, sometimes they are provided over 2-3 years, depending on the level of attendance. Our best success is 13% attendance rate to 98% attendance rate over 2 years.

Grassroots Learning Trailer
The Grassroots Learning Trailer has been a successful programme run over the last 3 years, addressing significant delays in literacy and numeracy development, primarily in primary school aged children. The trailer is operated in local community areas after school and provides skills staff (volunteers) and literacy and numeracy resources to facilitate re-engagement with learning. In 2022-2023 we ran the trailer two afternoons a week in Moree, and 2024 we are operating the trailer in Collarenebri one afternoon a week.

For more information about our plans to open and develop a network of Special Assistance Schools in the North West of NSW, please check out this page –> NYEC Education Recovery Plan – 2026 Onwards