This year Newfoundland Labrador
Housing (NL Housing) will award a total of twelve scholarships valued
at $1000
each. This will include six Youth Scholarships (two in
each of the following regions: Avalon/East, Central, Western/Labrador),
and six Adult Scholarships (two in each of the three
regions). The deadline for applications for the Youth Scholarship
program is August 31, 2012. For the Adult Scholarship Program, the
deadline is September 30, 2012.
What makes
you eligible?
Youth Program
To be eligible for Newfoundland
Labrador Housing's Youth Scholarship Program, your legal guardian(s) must be
either:
- living in a NL Housing rental unit and their signature
appears on the rental lease;
- living in a rental unit being subsidized by NL Housing
under the Rent Supplement Program;
- receiving a mortgage subsidy from NL Housing and their
signature appears on the mortgage document; or
- living in Co-op housing or Partner-Managed housing which is
being subsidized by NL Housing and their
signature appears on the occupancy agreement or lease.
You must also meet the
following eligibility requirements:
- graduating from the Newfoundland and Labrador high
school system in the current school year (June 2012);
- attending a program of study at any approved
post-secondary education or career training institution on a full-time
basis
in the fall of 2012.
Youth scholarships will be
awarded based on the results of the Newfoundland and Labrador
Department of Education Scholarship Score which is derived from a
student's performance on the Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial
Public Exams.
Adult Program
Three
scholarships, one in each region, are available to tenant leaseholders (the person who
signed the lease, mortgage, or occupancy agreement) and three
scholarships, one in each region, are available to other
occupants in the household (those who are not leaseholders).
To be eligible for NL Housing's
Adult
Scholarship Program, you
must be
either:
- living in a NL Housing rental unit;
- living in a rental unit subsidized by NL Housing
under the Rent Supplement Program;
- receiving
a mortgage subsidy from Housing; or
- living in Co-op housing or Partner-Managed housing which is
being subsidized by NL Housing.
You must also
meet the following eligibility requirement:
- attending a program of studies at any approved
post-secondary education or career training institution in the fall of
2012. You must be enrolled in a full-time
program and be in
attendance through to December 31, 2012. This attendance must be
confirmed.
(Important:
If
you
are
graduating from the Newfoundland and Labrador
high school system in the current school year and planning
to attend a post-secondary education or career training institution in
the Fall of
2012, you must apply for the Youth
Scholarship.)
Adult scholarships will be
awarded based on reviews that assess need, initiative, and community
involvement.
The adult scholarships are not limited to first-year students.
If you are renting or receiving a mortgage subsidy from NL Housing and
applying as the leaseholder, your account must be in good standing at
the time your application is reviewed for eligibility.
Note:
- Information on the application form must be valid at the
time the application is reviewed for eligibility.
- Should you change your post-secondary institution after you
submit your application, you are responsible to contact NL Housing at
724-3003 to have your application updated.
- Graduates
from Adult Basis Education (ABE) are eligible to apply.
- Tenants living in NL Housing’s Market-Rental housing are
not eligible to apply.
How do you
apply?
Scholarship applications are
available on-line (see below), from
NL Housing's regional offices, or by contacting:
Corporate Communications
Attention: Scholarships
Newfoundland Labrador Housing
P.O. Box 220
St. John's, NL
A1C 5J2
Telephone: (709) 724-3003
E-mail: scholars@nlhc.nf.ca
Please print and fill out the
appropriate application, and send it to the above-noted address.
Important:
Applications for the Youth
Scholarship Program must be postmarked no later than August 31, 2012.
Applications for the Adult Scholarship
Program must be postmarked no later than September 30, 2012.
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