$200,000 in Scholarships Awarded to Youth Leaders in Pregnancy Prevention.SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The Health Professions Education Foundation announced today its selections for the 2003-2004 Youth for Adolescent Pregnancy adolescent pregnancy See Teenage pregnancy. Prevention-Leadership Recognition Program (YAPP-LRP). The Foundation awarded $200,000 to eight youth from across the state. The purpose of the program is to award scholarships to youth between the ages of 16 and 24 who have demonstrated leadership in promoting healthy adolescent ad·o·les·cent adj. Of, relating to, or undergoing adolescence. n. A young person who has undergone puberty but who has not reached full maturity; a teenager. sexuality and teen pregnancy prevention in their communities. Each scholarship awardee will receive a $25,000 scholarship ($5,000 per year over five years). In return for the scholarship, each awardee must choose to study a discipline in the health professions. In addition, each awardee must practice his or her profession in a medically underserved area medically underserved area A region that has a relative or absolute deficiency of health care resources–eg, hospital beds, equipment and/or medical personnel of California after graduation Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the associated ceremony. The date of event is often called degree day. The event itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. . The scholarship awardees addressed teen pregnancy issues by attending forums and working with local governments and schools. Through their peer counseling work, they helped youth get through serious medical and emotional issues. Sometimes these youth leaders are the only people their peers can talk to about making healthy and responsible choices. The next application deadline is Nov. 4, 2004. Please contact the Foundation's office at 800-773-1669 or 916-324-6500 with questions about the program. The Health Professions Education Foundation is a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. , public benefit corporation administered through the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD OSHPD Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (California Health and Human Services Agency) ). It was established to provide scholarships and loan repayment grants to health professional students throughout California who are willing to practice in underserved areas. The Foundation's mission is to improve access to healthcare in rural and urban underserved areas. Since 1990, the Foundation has awarded nearly $9.4 million in scholarships and loan repayment grants to over 1,500 health professional students and graduates. |
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