The Ohio Rehabilitation Association (ORA) offers the MICHAEL MORRISON VISIONARY SCHOLARSHIP to provide support for a rehabilitation professional(s) or student(s) participating in the NRA Government Affairs Summit, or either the ORA or NRA Training Conference.
The recipient(s) of this scholarship must articulate how the scholarship will help her/him make an impact for people with disabilities. Priority will be given to those who articulate how they intend to become involved in serving the rehabilitation counseling profession. Those applying for this scholarship must submit a typed request (500 words or less) stating how they intend to utilize the scholarship to fulfill the priorities previously described (in either printed or Word format). Subsequently, the selected scholarship recipient(s) will be expected to submit a brief write-up pertaining to their experience at the summit/conference that will be published in the ORA newsletter, the INTERCHANGE.
For more information and/or to submit your application along with the following information, contact Vickie Leeming at: ORA@BEX.NET. The postmark deadlines are as follows: a) NRA Government Affairs Summit applications by February 8, 2012; b) NRA Annual Conference applications by June 6, 2012; c) ORA Annual Conference applications by September 5, 2012. Please mail to: ORA, Attention: Scholarship Committee, 6111 Chaney Drive, Toledo, OH 43615 or send via email to ORA@BEX.NET.
