DIVISION SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
The Richard H. Peters Rehabilitation Counseling & Psychology Time-Limited Scholarship
The Richard H. Peters Rehabilitation Counseling & Psychology Time-Limited Scholarship will be awarded to a deserving student in 2011-12 academic year. The scholarship was established by Jay Peters in loving memory of his father. Richard H. Peters was born on January 6, 1920 in Toledo, Ohio. He attended Scott High School and he transferred to the Hill School where he completed his high school training. This prepared him for the challenges of Yale University where he majored in political science. He went on to graduate school at The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) to complete his degree in law. After passing his boards, he spent a couple of years in Cincinnati, Ohio where he began his work as a public defender. He then moved back to Toledo where he practiced law up until the time of his death in February of 2001.
Eligibility – A Rehabilitation Counseling & Psychology student.
Selection Criteria –
- Financial need
- Clinically-related activities showing leadership
- Scholarships, honors, awards and leadership accomplishments
- Career aspirations
Application – A brief one page application; students are nominated by faculty
Members and selections are made by the one Faculty member, a member of the
Peters family, and a Student Selection Committee.
Deadline – applications are typically due by the end of July (notices of official date are posted for students annually). All students who seek to be considered should also have completed their Allied Health Sciences application form that is typically due by the end of May.
REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
LONG-TERM TRAINING FOR THE MENTALLY ILL SCHOLARS GRANT
The Division of Rehabilitation Counseling & Psychology at UNC, Chapel Hill has received a University-Based Long-Term Training grant from the USDOE to expand Psychiatric Rehabilitation specialization in rehabilitation counseling. This new federal grant award will offer scholarship stipends to graduate students who pursue a psychiatric specialization to help cover their tuition (full-time students can get tuition stipends for second year courses; part-time students can get tuition stipends for most of their courses). The five-year grant award is intended to address shortages that exist in the region for trained rehabilitation counselors in psychiatric rehabilitation to work in public vocational rehabilitation and in community-based rehabilitation programs including public, community mental health, as well as to colleges which provide postsecondary supported education.
The project will recruit and serve both full and part-time students, as annual funding levels will permit that could assist approximately 65+ students during the project period. Students must be admitted into the Rehabilitation Counseling & Psychology Program in order to participate in the project. Efforts will be focused on developing clinical training in close proximity to where graduates will seek work. Students can qualify by selecting the psychiatric specialization and entering into an agreement with the USDOE to payback service for the years in which they receive a tuition stipend. Information about the scholars grant program can be obtained by contacting (919) 966-8788 and speaking with the program associate.
