Apply for Your 2023 Scholarships from Wounds Canada

Wounds Canada is proud to offer support, education and resources to people in Canada living with wounds or who are at risk for wounds. We focus on raising awareness and providing financial support for programs that help prevent the often-devastating effects of wounds. Our mission is to help bring prevention and awareness of wounds to the forefront of care. That's why our scholarship program funds essential education for health-care providers, unregulated care providers and caregivers. We believe targeting the gap in knowledge about wound prevention and management is crucial to bringing positive change in our health-care systems. 

The objectives of the scholarship program is to ensure:

• Consistency with Wounds Canada’s vision, mission and values
• Timely dispersal of the funds, in keeping with the Wounds Canada charitable status 
• Fairness and transparency in the scholarship and grants criteria
• The establishment of a robust process and infrastructure for ongoing WC programs

Submission deadline is Monday, July 31st, 2023.

The SHARP Program Scholarship will help the student to address the importance of preventing wounds and their complications.  This self-paced, multi-faceted, comprehensive and longitudinal program is based on the best available evidence, including the content of Wounds Canada’s Foundations of Best Practice for Skin and Wound Management articles, with the aim of increasing health-care clinicians competencies in wound prevention and care.

The scholarship emphasizes the importance of empowering frontline health-care clinicians with knowledge and skills to apply wound care best practices. It covers the full value ($1750 + tax) of the comprehensive Wounds Canada Institute SHARP (Super Program #1- FCM20512-C).

Eligibility

Applicants will be considered for scholarships if they meet the following criteria::

• A Canadian citizen or landed immigrant
• A registered health-care professional currently practising in Canada or a Canadian health profession student
• Committed to completing the program within 12 months
• Not a previous recipient of a scholarship from Wounds Canada

The scholarship covers the full value ($75 + tax) of the Skin and Wound Care for Unregulated Care Providers Program (C100MWN).

Eligibility

Applicants will be considered for this scholarship if they meet the following criteria::

• A Canadian citizen or landed immigrant
• An unregulated care provider, e.g., a personal support worker, health-care aide, home support worker, personal care attendant, unpaid caregiver
• Committed to completing the program within 6 months of receiving registration information
• Not a previous recipient of a scholarship from Wounds Canada

Wounds Canada’s Scholarship Selection Committee will review applications and make their decisions based on the criteria listed for each scholarship. The committee membership will consist of a combination of:

• Educator(s) specializing in the area of skin and wounds
• Representative(s) of Wounds Canada
• Graduate of the WC 2021 Leadership Program

Applications will be evaluated on the following criteria:

• How the applicant’s attendance at the selected program would benefit their career, their health-care setting, their patients
• How the applicant’s attendance at the selected program would support the advancement of skin health and wound care in Canada