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Scholarships

Kenneth P. and Maxine Fox Scholarship

More information to come. To apply, fill out this application form.

Roy Carroll Foster Children's Memorial Scholarship Fund

The Roy Carroll Foster Children's Memorial Scholarship Fund has been established in honor of Peggy Carroll's husband, Roy Carroll, who was an active TFACA member and a loving foster and adoptive parent. Peggy Carroll is also a TFACA member, foster and adoptive parent, as well as being a caring, dedicated Resource Parent Advocate in the Southeast Region of DCS. In keeping with the Carroll's giving nature, Peggy asked that a scholarship fund for foster children be established in lieu of receiving flowers.

The scholarship fund is open to all foster children in Tennessee and will be used to help defray the cost to send foster children to various camps (i.e. basketball, band, cheerleading, and summer camps). The fund will be managed by TFACA. Requests for scholarship assistance should be sent to the attention of Nancy Woodall-Grooms at the address listed below.

To donate to the scholarship fund, please send a check or money order made payable to TFACA with a notation stating that it is for the "Roy Carroll Memorial Fund." All donations and requests for assistance should be sent to:

TFACA
c/o The Roy Carroll Memorial Scholarship Fund
P.O. Box 220
LaVergne, TN 37086

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Walk Me Home Enrichment Fund

The Walk Me Home Enrichment Fund has been established for the sole purpose of supporting and enriching the lives of children and youth in foster care, custodial kinship care, and in special circumstances- adoptive placements.
To apply, fill out this application form and send to:

Becky Rogers, TFACA President
638 County Road 105
Athens, TN. 37303
rebeccajcrogers@aol.com
423-745-2049 (Home)
423-506-1785 (Cell)

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Other Scholarship Opportunities

Fostering a Future

Children's Action Network and the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption have partnered to create a national scholarship program, Fostering a Future, sponsored by Capital One, to benefit youth adopted from foster care.

The fund was designed to provide children who were adopted from foster care with the opportunity to pursue their educational goals. In addition, the fund will provide parents considering the adoption of an older child an opportunity for education assistance by adding this special scholarship to existing post-adoption resources. The fund is also intended to help alleviate some concerns about new financial obligations facing adoptive parents.

They are currently accepting applications. Applicants must:

have been adopted from the United States foster care system after the age of 13
be graduating high school seniors
maintain or improve qualifying grade point average throughout applicant's senior year
demonstrate financial need

Applications will be accepted between now and April 20, 2010. To download an application, please visit Children's Action Network. If you have any questions, or would like more information, contact Children's Action Network at Caninformation@aol.com or 800.525.6789.

J Camp

J Camp is a free-of-charge program designed to develop the next generation of journalists. The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) will be holding its 10th annual J Camp, a five-day career development program sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, on July 30-August 4, 2010, at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. All application materials are due in San Francisco by April 2, so we ask that you distribute this information to interested groups or young people as soon as possible.

Applicants must be high school freshmen, sophomores, or juniors (at least 16 years old by July 30, 2010) who are interested in or thinking about journalism as a career.

To download an application, students may go to http://www.aaja.org/programs/for_students/journalism_trainings/j_camp/. You can also visit the AAJA website, http://www.aaja.org, and the AAJA J Camp Facebook page, for more information.