Awards, Grants and Scholarships

Each year, OSCA is pleased to honor one School Counselor of the Year, provide three scholarships for high school seniors, and provide one grant for school counselors.

Congratulations to this year's Don Perkins Grant winner!

MAYA BOURGEOIS

Meadow Park Middle School (MPMS), Beaverton School District

At MPMS, 42% of students identify as Hispanic/Latino, the majority demographic of the school. The counseling team has consistently heard from Latinx parents that they feel disconnected from school and their middle school students. Many of these families have simultaneously expressed interest in attending and leading a parent group that is focused on community and learning. Maya will use Don Perkins Grant funds to help implement a series of 8 community-building sessions for Spanish-speaking families, in the hopes of increasing overall feelings of inclusion and engagement by targeting the school's majority demographic.

Congratulations to our 2024 scholarship winners!

From Left to Right: Taylor Gates, First Place Winner; Shayna Giron, Second Place Winner; Kailee Macy, Third Place Winner; Kimara Jackson, Third Place Winner

Oregon School Counselor of the Year
We are now reviewing nominations for the 2024-25 School Counselor of the Year.
Linda C. Eby Scholarship
Congrats to our winners from the 2023-2024 school year! We are not currently accepting applications to the Linda C. Eby Scholarship.
Don Perkins Professional Grant
We accepted applications from May 1 - June 15, 2024. We are currently reviewing applications.

How to Apply

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School Counselor of the Year (SCOY)

The School Counselor of the Year (SCOY) Award honors the best of the best - counselors who run a top-notch, comprehensive school counseling program at the elementary, middle or high school level. Please nominate your colleague who you feel exemplifies these qualities! The winner of the Oregon SCOY Award will receive a $1,000 monetary award, as well as travel and registration for the OSCA Annual Conference.

We also submit the Oregon SCOY to the application pool for the ASCA National School Counselor of the Year award. The Oregon SCOY will hold the privilege of representing OSCA at the ASCA SCOY Gala.

We are now reviewing nominations for the 2024-25 School Counselor of the Year.

Linda C. Eby Scholarship

OSCA is pleased to provide three scholarships for high school seniors. The goal of this scholarship is to recognize outstanding high school seniors and School Counselors in the state of Oregon.

Linda C. Eby served as a School Counselor for 33 years. She was on the Oregon School Counselor Association Board for 20 years. Her time and commitment to this profession was recognized in the Fall of 2014 when she received the Lifetime Achievement Award and the OSCA Board named its’ first-ever high school scholarship after her. The goal of this scholarship is to recognize outstanding high school seniors and School Counselors in the state of Oregon.

One winner will receive $3,000. Two runner-ups will each receive $1,000.

Congrats to our winners for the 2023-2024 school year!

First Place: Taylor Gates
Second Place: Shayna Giron
Third Place: Kailee Macy
Third Place: Kimara Jackson

Winners were notified on May 1, 2024.

Don Perkins Professional Grant

OSCA is pleased to provide a grant for school counselors. The goal of this grant is to support school counselors in developing programs and receive training in order to benefit students.

Congratulations to this year's winner - Maya Bourgeois from Meadow Park Middle School, Beaverton School District.

We accepted applications from May 1 - June 15, 2024.
You may request up to $500.
OSCA members employed as school counselors are eligible.
We will announce this year's winner by July 15, 2024.
Recipients must spend grant funds by the end of the following school year. The exact date is provided each year. For 2024-2025, recipients must spend grant funds by June 1, 2025.
We honor one recipient each application cycle.

If selected to receive the Don Perkins Grant, we ask that you submit a program proposal for a break-out session at the OSCA Conference that follows receipt of a grant (i.e., if you receive a grant in April, you will propose a break-out session at next October's conference). Alternately, you can write a brief article for the OSCA newsletter describing what you did, how students benefited, and your recommendations to other school counselors, due before the OSCA Conference following receipt of grant.

Examples of programs and training OSCA has funded:

Crisis Response training for counselors
Library of resources for parents
Love & Logic training for a counselor
Peer Mediation Training of Trainers
Incentives program to improve students’ academic success.

We accepted applications from May 1 - June 15, 2024.

Questions?

Contact communications@oscainc.org.