Background Launched as a pilot in 2024, Bridge the Gap is a one-of-a-kind education program that fills a critical gap in the Victorian Education system. The program provides personalised one-to-one tuition for students from Foundation to Year 12 who have been discharged from hospital but remain medically unable to return to the classroom due to illness, treatment, or recovery. Since its inception, over 250 students have engaged in Bridge the Gap; receiving explicit, individualised learning. Without this intervention, many face prolonged learning loss, disengagement, social isolation, reduced confidence, and heightened anxiety about returning to school. These challenges can have lasting impacts on academic achievement while placing additional strain on families already navigating complex medical circumstances. Aim The immediate goal of Bridge the Gap is to ensure students remain connected to education during absence. The program maintains learning continuity, minimises the impact of extended absences, and supports students to remain engaged, confident, and connected to their school community. Method The Bridge the Gap is a comprehensive, wrap-around model of care. RMLP collaboratively works with hospital teachers, allied health providers, tutors, students, parents and base schools to ensure the establishment and delivery of student-centred programs of support. Students receive two hours of individualised tuition each week, planned and delivered by VIT-registered teachers for the duration of their absence from school. The program also includes post-discharge planning and return-to-school meetings, ensuring a coordinated and supported pathway back to the classroom. Outcomes/Significance The wide range of individual diagnoses and year levels demonstrates the program's unique capacity to support students with rare, complex, and often highly specialised medical needs. Over half of the 250 + students supported by Bridge the Gap experienced an educational gap of six to nine months, highlighting the critical need for sustained learning support during extended periods away from school. Collaboration across the health and education interface, along with the flexibility of our contracted tutors to work in with appointments and ill health, have proven to be essential in supporting the continuum of learning through illness and recovery. Conclusion: At its core, Bridge the Gap ensures that a period of illness does not become a lifetime educational disadvantage. By connecting health and education, the program provides students with the continuity, confidence, and opportunity they need to remain engaged in learning and successfully return to school. The success and growing demand for Bridge the Gap reinforces a clear and ongoing need. As the philanthropic funding period concludes, the priority is to secure sustainable support. By strengthening partnerships across health and education and embedding pathways for referral and support, Bridge the Gap is well positioned to become a lasting and sustainable model of care. Without BTG, Johnny just wouldn't have been able to do any school work. His recovery and connection would have been much worse. Our days would have had less purpose to them, and would have been much more stressful. I would have worried more as a parent, as the pathway back to education would have just felt impossible.”