After winning a $5000 scholarship (WET scholarship for mental health professionals; search Google.com for the scholarship details), I decided to purchase "1001 Ways to Pay for College" by Gen and Kelly Tanabe (order via amazon.com -- I got mine for about twelve bucks!).
In this amazing resource was a website for scholarships and loan forgiveness programs for people in the health professions.
So, my new goal is to research at least one scholarship/loan forgiveness program, etc. per day (Monday-Friday) and I'll post some of the results here on my blog.
Then, it occurred to me that since I am a non-traditional student, and that there are others of us out there trying to get through school and take care of "non-traditional student duties," that I would post resources to help all of us succeed with those duties.
Here's my "website for the day" for scholarships. It contains links for loan forgiveness programs as well as scholarships for health professions (this includes mental health and nursing):
http://www.oshpd.state.ca.us/HPEF/Schlrshp.html
My significant other is trying to help his mother (who has dementia and emphysema) get sufficient care so that he can continue to go to school and work. This, I have discovered, is not an easy task. I am a community resource hound, so I dug up this next website from a free local paper. You should do the same, but here's the one I found for my area:
"Central Coast Commission for Senior Citizens offers free services: Senior Connection - connecting callers with local resources; HICAP (Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program): one-on-one assistance for Medicare beneficiaries, consider long-term care options, and help with billing/appeal problems; Vial of LIfe - a magnetized container for the refrigerator with medical information; a Senior Resource Directory for San Luis Obispo or Santa Barbara county (
ask for a referral to your county) - and more. For information ..., call (805)925-9554 or visit
www.centralcoastseniors.org "
