CHANGING attitudes toward mainstream education while instilling Aboriginal cultural identity is helping the Gambirran Academy achieve great results with local Aboriginal youths in a number of schools at Dubbo, Wellington and Gilgandra.
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The Gambirran Academy operates as part of the National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy (NASCA) which has for the past eight years assisted in increasing academic results and school retention.
NASCA project officer Mick Haley believes the organisation can really assist kids achieve their goals.
“It is really about getting kids to complete their education, aspire towards higher learning, trades and courses or whatever they want to achieve,” he said.
Some of the ways NASCA assist the Aboriginal youths is through behaviour and leadership camps, mentoring programs, cultural activities, reward excursions and support to complete vocational or technical courses and employment.
NASCA project assistants Travis Hill and Monique McKean are both Dubbo locals who are now helping other youths through various challenges at school.
Mr Hill, 23, has been acknowledged for his contribution after he was nominated for the NSW/ACT Young Achiever Award and the non-age-specific NSW/ACT Indigenous Achiever Award.
The schools NASCA have worked with in 2015 are Delroy Campus, South Campus and Senior Campus, Wellington High School and Gilgandra High School.
To donate to help NASCA’s programs in the Dubbo region expand visit www.nasca.org.au.
