Community Network Bursary

Application Process

Students who want to apply should first contact the community network in their home region that will sponsor their application.

Step 1

Students must fill out Form 1: Student Application, including the identification of their home region and the participating community network that will coordinate (sponsor) their bursary application within that region.

Step 2

Students must send the following documents to the contact person at their participating community network:

  • Form 1: Student Application, duly completed and signed;

  • most recent Curriculum Vitae;

  • official letter of acceptance into their program that they have received from their educational institution;

  • most recent academic transcript: if they are a first-year student after high school, they are to attach their latest high school transcript.

Step 3

Students must also provide two (2) references from within their community.

Students fill out section 1 of Form 2: Reference Providers and ask that their references complete sections 2-4.

Reference Providers email the completed Form 2: Reference Providers to the contact person at the participating community network in the student’s home region.

Selection Process

The selection of bursary recipients is a three-step process. The first step takes place at the community network level, the second at the regional level, and the third at the Dialogue McGill level.

Community Networks begin their selection process once the student application deadline has passed.

Community Network Verification Process

The sponsoring community network must first validate the admissibility of the student applications. This involves ensuring that they were submitted by the announced deadline, that the applications are complete, and that they meet the basic eligibility criteria previously listed.

The community network will submit all eligible and conforming applications to the Bursary Selection Committee.

Bursary Selection Process

The second step takes place under the auspices of a selection committee set up by the sponsoring community network. Bursary Selection Committees will involve community and public health sector representation (Dialogue McGill recommends having CISSS or CIUSSS representation).

The Bursary Selection Committee will review all qualifying bursary applications submitted to the community network. They will ensure that the application responds to regional priorities, and they will recommend a maximum of six (6) candidates for both types of bursaries (excluding vocational training bursaries) to Dialogue McGill, ranked by order of priority.

Community Networks may recommend a maximum of two (2) applications for students in vocational training programs and may do so at any point during the year. This maximum is independent from the maximum indicated in the bursaries for University- or Cegep/college-level students.

Selection Criteria

Bursary applicants will be recommended for approval by the participating community network based on the following criteria:

  • compatibility of the student’s field of study with the identified regional priority service areas;

  • student’s commitment, following completion of studies, to work in their field in a public health and social services institution in their home region, or catchment area of the sponsoring community network, for a minimum of one year per bursary awarded;

  • quality of the references provided;

  • quality of the student’s academic standing;

  • overall quality, content, and presentation of the student’s application.

The final selection of bursary recipients remains at the discretion of Dialogue McGill’s Bursary Recommendation Committee, and is contingent on the listed criteria along with the Community Network’s recommendations.

Recommendation to Dialogue McGill

Once the community network and the Bursary Selection Committee have selected the bursary applications they wish to recommend for funding, they must complete and sign Form 3: community network recommendation for each application.

Community networks are responsible for submitting the complete student applications to Dialogue McGill by the community network deadline.

The complete student applications must include:

  • Form 1: Student Application (duly signed and complete)

  • Student’s Curriculum Vitae

  • Letter of acceptance from Students Institution

  • Student’s official or unofficial transcript

  • Form 2: Reference Providers (x2)

  • Form 3: Community network recommendation (duly signed and complete)

Applications that are missing one or several elements are subject to refusal from Dialogue McGill. The decision to fund an application is reserved to Dialogue McGill. Community network recommendation in no way guarantees funding to a student.

Approval

Dialogue McGill Recommendation Process

The Dialogue McGill Bursary Recommendation Committee will evaluate the bursary applications submitted by the Bursary Selection Committees and community networks using an evaluation grid based on the selection criteria.

All applications will undergo Dialogue McGill review with funding priority given to higher ranked applications. If funds are available, applications that are eligible but have lower rankings may be waitlisted.