Scholarships

The Vancouver Oral Centre for Deaf Children Post-Secondary Scholarship Award

Nature of Scholarship

This scholarship is awarded once per year in the amount of $1,000 and may be shared between two students at the discretion of the Committee.

The scholarship is paid after confirmation of the student’s acceptance at a post-secondary institution is received.

The Scholarship Committee is composed of the Executive Director/Principal of the VOC and two Board members (not VOC parents). Board members will sit on the committee on a rotating basis to ensure continuity of standards.

The application will not be considered complete until two references have been received. It is the applicant’s responsibility to arrange for these to be sent to the VOC, and they must be mailed directly by the referee to the Scholarship Committee. Letters of reference may be sought from teachers, community leaders, employers etc. but may not include immediate family.

All decisions of the Committee are final.

Criteria for Application

Any past or current student with a hearing loss of the VOC who has applied to, or who is already enrolled in a post-secondary education program is eligible to apply. Please note that this scholarship is not restricted to the current year’s graduates, but may be awarded to any graduate(s) from this year or any past years.

The student must use speech and residual hearing, and/or speech reading as their preferred, customary form of communication. Financial need is not a necessary criterion for application.

All applicants may reapply in subsequent years.

Deadline for receipt of application: October 17, 2008

Click here for an Application Form or E-mail the VOC at: info@deafeducationcentre.org.

2007 VOC Scholarship Award Recipients

Jessica Dunkley graduated with a Bachelor of Science at UBC and is now attending the University of Ottawa where she will graduate from medical school.

Monique Guterres is in her fifth year at SFU, majoring in Criminology and is the director for the youth network for the CHHA-BC branch.

 Monique Guterres with former Itinerant Teachers Hilda Gregory and Kathy Pompura