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These scholarships are funded by Mental Health-Children and Young People (MH-CYP), NSW Ministry of Health to support professionals providing mental health service to infants, children, youth and their families/carers, to study either the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health or Child and Youth Mental Health specialisations at HETI.

Recipients must be enrolled in the formal postgraduate Award course Applied Mental Health Studies at any of the three degree levels (Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Masters) to receive the scholarship.

WHAT DOES THE SCHOLARSHIP COVER?

The CYMHS scholarship will cover 100% of the unit cost of studying a degree.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

To be eligible for the CYHMS Scholarship, students must be:

1. An Australian citizen, permanent resident, or on a working visa,
2. Currently employed by NSW Health in the area of Perinatal and Infant, or Child and Youth Mental Health,
3. Enrolled in a HETI award program (Graduate Certificate, Diploma or Masters), and
4. Specialise in either Perinatal and Infant Mental Health or Child and Youth Mental Health.

HOW TO APPLY FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP

If you are a continuing student with HETI Higher Education, you will need to apply for a scholarship via the Scholarship Tab within myHETIconnect, following the process outlined below.

If you are commencing study with HETI Higher Education for the first time, you will need to apply and be accepted for study with HETI through our online admission form via myHETIconnect. Select either the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Masters in Applied Mental Health Studies course code, ensuring that supporting documents required as part of the admission process are supplied.

Once admission is completed, then

1. Complete the HETI scholarship application via the scholarship tab in myHETIconnect.
2. When completing the online scholarship application, you must provide an email or informal letter of support from either your local Mental Health Director or CYMHS Director/Co-Ordinator to undertake study in the area of Infant or Child and Youth Mental Health.

KEY DATES

As stated, students need to be admitted into a degree before applying for a scholarship. The courses are designed flexibly so students can apply for admission to a degree at any time during the academic year.

• Scholarship applications for study starting in 2023 or 2024 are open. Students can apply for the scholarship at any time until the funds are exhausted.
• Scholarship notifications will be made once eligibility is determined, usually within two weeks.
• Study can begin at a date to suit the student, noting completion of the degree is required within three years from admission date. Teaching Period dates are shown in the Academic Calendar.
• Students can enrol in units for their degree across a full calendar year. Scholarship funds must be allocated to units by the unit census date of each teaching period. See the Academic Calendar for census dates.

HOW DO APPLICANTS KNOW IF THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL?
All applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application via email, usually within two weeks of application submission.

WHAT IS REQUIRED OF A SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT?
Scholarship recipients are required to:

1. Complete unit enrolments via myHETIconnect Courses and Units Tab. Scholarship funds will be available for you to allocate to your selected units via the myHETIconnect, Scholarship tab
2. Self-allocate their scholarship funding to units myHETIconnect before the Census Date of each Teaching Period
3. Actively engage with learning activities and support resources; and complete the unit assessment/s to at least a pass grade, and
4. Participate in a feedback survey and other unit evaluation processes, that inform the quality improvement of learning at HETI

Please Note: Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) scholarship recipients are ineligible to also receive a Nursing and Midwifery Office (NaMO) Postgraduate scholarship for the Applied Mental Health Studies course. Successful recipients of the NaMO scholarship must advise HETI Higher Education within two weeks of accepting their offer.

WHAT HAPPENS TO MY SCHOLARSHIP IF I LEAVE NSW HEALTH?
If you fail to undertake studies, cease study without completing the course, or cease employment with NSW Health during study, then awarded scholarships monies will be forfeited. If you move from one Local Health District/Specialty Health Network to another, this does not constitute leaving the NSW Health System, and therefore scholarship monies remain with you.

ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS

1. Students are expected to fully apply themselves to their study, otherwise the scholarship will be forfeited.
2. Whilst a student may withdraw from a unit myHETIconnect on or before the Teaching Period census date (academic calendar) without penalty, withdrawing after census date (unless there are significant special circumstances) also forfeits the scholarship funds for that enrolment.
3. If a student who failed or withdrew from a unit post-census wishes to repeat the unit/course again, it will be at the expense of the student, unless there are extenuating circumstances which are outlined in the HETI Higher Education Special Consideration Policy, that are agreed to by the ADET.

FURTHER INFORMATION

If you would like information or advice regarding scholarships or courses, please contact: