Diabetes Hope Foundation Scholarship Program

The HOPE Scholarship Program highlights the personal triumphs of young adults who face the many responsibilities associated with diabetes management significantly enriching their lives through community and extra-curricular activities and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Each of these young adults has accomplished what others in their position try to do: they have allowed themselves to be people with diabetes with hopes and plans to succeed and pursue life’s challenges. They are not diabetics with a disease that defines them.

Over the last 24 years, Diabetes Hope Foundation has been successful in engaging more youth from across the country through the expansion and growth of the Scholarship program across Canada.

To date, 852 scholarships have been awarded to support students with diabetes to attended 129 post-secondary institutions globally; including 10 provinces in Canada, 14 U.S. States, Australia, Bahrain, Ireland, Israel, Poland, Turkey, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

ONTARIO 

Award value: $2,500 each

Eligibility:

Open to young adults

• Who are residents of Ontario, Canada
• Who are in their final year of high school and entering an accredited post-secondary institution in the fall of 2023.
• Who are registered with a pediatric diabetes program/healthcare provider and is in their transition year to adult diabetes care.
• Who have received care for Type 1 Diabetes by a Pediatric Health Care team for a minimum of 1 year preceding this application
• Who have demonstrated competence in self-management by:
• Regular diabetic health care follow-ups (a minimum of three visits in the past 12 months if newly diagnosed; minimum of 6 visits in the past 24 months for all others); and
• Obtaining an endorsement letter from a member of their Paediatric Health Care team confirming their attendance and successful self-management.

OUTSIDE ONTARIO 

Award value: $2,000 each

Eligibility:

Open to young adults

• Who are residents of British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.
• Who are in their final year of high school and entering an accredited post-secondary institution in the fall of 2023.
• Who are registered with a pediatric diabetes program/healthcare provider and is in their transition year to adult diabetes care.
• Who have received care for Type 1 Diabetes or Insulin Dependent Type 2 Diabetes by a Pediatric Health Care team for a minimum of 1 year preceding this application
• Who have demonstrated competence in self-management by:
• Regular diabetic health care follow-ups (a minimum of three visits in the past 12 months if newly diagnosed; minimum of 6 visits in the past 24 months for all others); and
• Obtaining an endorsement letter from a member of their Paediatric Health Care team confirming their attendance and successful self-management.