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    • School History
    • Evidence Bank
    • Working at YarraMe
    • Contact Us >
      • Compass (secure log in)
  • Outreach
    • Inclusion Support Service
    • Inclusive Resources
    • Secondary Consultation
  • Intake
    • Hurstbridge Farm
    • Years 1 - 3 Program
    • Years 4 - 6 Program
  • Professional Learning
    • Attachment and Trauma Theory Training
    • Supporting Wellbeing & Mental Health
    • ASD Understanding Executive Functioning
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    • Communities Connect
    • Child Safety Standards
    • School Council (secure log in)
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    • Help Desk
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Hurstbridge Therapeutic Farm

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​The Hurstbridge Farm is a therapeutic residential care facility run by the Department of Health and Human Services for young people aged 10-15 years who have suffered developmental trauma. The young people live at the residential facility in Hurstbridge for approximately two years and the program operates in a therapeutic milieu, informed chiefly by attachment and trauma theory. The program has the capacity to house eight young people and aims to assist them through a safe and consistent care environment and wide-ranging therapeutic interventions to overcome the impact of their traumatic experiences.



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The program was established in 2008 and operates as an on-site education program for the young people who reside at the Farm. Informed by the therapeutic approach and trauma and attachment theory; the program aims to re-engage students with education, providing a scaffolded, personalised learning in accordance with the Victorian Curriculum. The program aims to provide dynamic, experiential learning opportunities with a strong emphasis on social and emotional learning. Students are provided positive behaviour supports to assist with developing their social, emotional and behaviour management skills, in order to facilitate re-engagement and transition to education or workplace pathways subsequent to their residential placement at the Farm.

​Please note - Referrals to this program are only made by the Department of Health and Human Services, Child Protection Division
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Email yarra.me.sch@education.vic.gov.au | Phone (03) 9478 8895 | Fax (03) 9478 6686 | Address Highview Road Preston Vic 3072 | Postal PO Box 8228 Northland Centre VIC 3072  | ABN 32 453 166 084
Photo used under Creative Commons from Robert Couse-Baker