The District supports healthcare education and training for the benefit of future generations. Each year, a portion of the District’s grants and sponsorships overall budget is allocated to local post-secondary and high school students pursuing or planning to pursue healthcare careers.

POST-SECONDARY SCHOLARSHIPS

If you currently live, work, or have previously graduated from high school within the District boundaries (see District map here), you may be eligible to apply for one of our post-secondary scholarships. Post-secondary applicants must only apply for one scholarship in a given year and can only be awarded that scholarship once. Please read our full policy here to learn more: FY 24-25 Scholarships Policy.

  • Richard J. Bea Community Service Scholarship: Grossmont Healthcare District awards TWO non-renewable scholarships to Registered Nursing (RN) candidates based on their community involvement in the amount of $7,500 (1st place) and $5,000 (2nd place).
  • Health Tech Scholarship: The District awards TEN scholarships to students who are currently enrolled in a healthcare-related technical program or who have graduated from a healthcare-related technical program within the past 6 months (as a form of tuition reimbursement), 5 in the amount of $5,000 (1st place) and 5 in the amount of $3,000 (2nd place).
  • Behavioral Health Scholarship: The District awards FIVE behavioral health students pursuing higher education in a post-baccalaureate program (including MSW, MA, MS, PsyD, PhD, PMHNP) in the amount of $15,000.
  • Advanced Practice Clinician Scholarship: The District awards FIVE scholarships to Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA) students looking to advance to a higher level of clinical practice in the amount of $15,000.
  • Certified/Clinical Nurse Scholarship: The District awards TWO scholarships to students in an accredited graduate or postgraduate degree program to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Nurse Midwife, or Clinical Nurse Specialist, in the amount of $10,000 each.

HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS

  • Each eligible high school (see page 5 of the Scholarship Policy) selects two seniors who plan to pursue healthcare careers at the college level or an accredited health occupations training program First Place $3,300, Second Place $1,650.

The application period for FY 24-25 opens on December 1 – February 7.


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Submit to Richard J. Bea Community Service Scholarship Application

Richard J. Bea Community Service Scholarship: Grossmont Healthcare District awards TWO scholarships to Registered Nursing (RN) candidates based on their community involvement in the amount of $7,500 (1st place) and $5,000 (2nd place).

Please review the Grossmont Healthcare District's FY24-25 Scholarships Policy in its entirety before submitting your request.

You will be able to scroll through the application in its entirety before you begin completing the application, so please review in advance, for familiarity with the requirements. Drafts of your submission will be automatically saved until you provide a digital signature and click "Submit," so you may return to your application in progress at any time.

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Submit to Health Tech Scholarship Application

Health Tech Scholarship: Grossmont Healthcare District awards TEN candidates who are currently enrolled in a related health care technical program or who have graduated from a health care related technical program within the past 6 months (as a form of tuition reimbursement) with the Health Tech Scholarship, 5 in the amount of $5,000 (1st place) and 5 in the amount of $3,000 (2nd place).

Please review the Grossmont Healthcare District's FY24-25 Scholarships Policy in its entirety before submitting your request.

You will be able to scroll through the application in its entirety before you begin completing the application, so please review in advance, for familiarity with the requirements. Drafts of your submission will be automatically saved until you provide a digital signature and click "Submit," so you may return to your application in progress at any time.

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Submit to Behavioral Health Scholarship Application

Behavioral Health Scholarship: Grossmont Healthcare District awards FIVE behavioral health candidates pursuing higher education in a post-baccalaureate program with the Behavioral Health Scholarship in the amount of $15,000.

Please review the Grossmont Healthcare District's FY24-25 Scholarships Policy in its entirety before submitting your request.

You will be able to scroll through the application in its entirety before you begin completing the application, so please review in advance, for familiarity with the requirements. Drafts of your submission will be automatically saved until you provide a digital signature and click "Submit," so you may return to your application in progress at any time.

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Submit to Advanced Practice Clinician Scholarship Application

Advanced Practice Clinician Scholarship: The Grossmont Healthcare District will award FIVE Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA) candidates looking to advance to a higher level of education of clinical practice with the Advanced Practice Clinician Scholarship in the amount of $15,000.

Please review the Grossmont Healthcare District's FY24-25 Scholarships Policy in its entirety before submitting your request.

You will be able to scroll through the application in its entirety before you begin completing the application, so please review in advance, for familiarity with the requirements. Drafts of your submission will be automatically saved until you provide a digital signature and click "Submit," so you may return to your application in progress at any time.

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Submit to Certified/Clinical Nurse Scholarship Application

Certified/Clinical Nurse Scholarship: Grossmont Healthcare District awards TWO scholarships to students in an accredited graduate or postgraduate degree program to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Nurse Midwife, or Clinical Nurse Specialist, in the amount of $10,000 each.

Please review the Grossmont Healthcare District's FY24-25 Scholarships Policy in its entirety before submitting your request.

You will be able to scroll through the application in its entirety before you begin completing the application, so please review in advance, for familiarity with the requirements. Drafts of your submission will be automatically saved until you provide a digital signature and click "Submit," so you may return to your application in progress at any time.

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Submit to HIGH SCHOOL Scholarship Application (to be completed by counselor)

The criteria for this scholarship and how students receive their funds can be found here on our website and within our FY24-25 Scholarship Policy found here.

It is highly recommended that each high school have only one representative create a Submittable account in order to alleviate any submission errors.  

 **The Submittable portal is not for high school public distribution and is strictly for the use of the high school representative only.**

 Per our FY24-25 Scholarship Policy: 

  • The selected students shall be chosen from current fiscal year graduates residing within the Grossmont Healthcare District
  • Chosen students shall be selected from among their peers who are also planning to pursue healthcare careers at the college level. The school counselor may accept at face value the student’s assertion that they intend to pursue a healthcare career. The term “healthcare career” shall be broadly interpreted to include not only the healing arts but also those non-traditional careers recognized by the State of California for which citizens may legally seek assistance for illness, injury, or disease.
  • The selected students shall have earned, as of the completion of the first semester of their senior year, no less than a 3.0 cumulative grade point average based on a scale of 4.0 as grade “A”.

The deadline to submit all winners is Friday, February 7, 2025.  The selected students are the “winners” and will attend an award ceremony sometime in the Spring of 2025.  High School Counselors will be notified of the exact date/time as we get closer. High School Counselors are responsible for informing their two students of their scholarship win.