Scholarships

The Colorado Environmental Health Association has designed the scholarship to honor the late Tom Douville. Mr. Douville was the Environmental Health Director of Mesa County form 1981 to 1985 and of Boulder County from 1985 until his death in November of 1996. CEHA has established this scholarship for students from Colorado Universities who serve as interns in local health departments. CEHA is looking for students who show strong leadership skills and interest in environmental health. The applicants must be completing or "have completed" an internship with a Colorado health department in the Environmental Health Division within one year of the application. The applicant must be a recent Colorado graduate or a student in a Colorado college or university enrolled in Environmental Health Science or a related field. The applicant must be a member of the Colorado Environmental Health Association.
Tom Douville Scholarship Application Form (pdf)

Please complete the Application form and email or send by August 5, 2008 to:
CEHA Scholarship Committee
ATTN:Tom Butts, Chair
P.O. Box 460726
Glendale, CO 80246
Email: thomas.butts@cehaweb.com

CEHA is proud to announce that the Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership (RIHEL) is recruiting health and environment professionals for the Advanced Leadership Training program Class of 2008. Limited scholarships to support CEHA members are available (see below for details).

There is currently a great need for new leadership approaches as the challenges to environmental public health have never been greater. To address this need, the Leadership Training Program of the Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership (RIHEL) has developed a year-long program of group and self-directed learning led by experts in leadership, communication and the health and environment disciplines.

The program orients the participants, or "Fellows," to lifelong leadership learning. The objectives of the Leadership Training Program are to augment the leadership skills of the Fellows and to build an interdisciplinary team of leaders committed to the improvement of health and the environment in the Rocky Mountain region.

Long-time CEHA visionary Tom Dunlop has long been involved with RIHEL. CEHA had the chance to ask Dunlop about his experiences with the Institute. He indicated that "as a life time member of CEHA and as a supporter of RIHEL, he finds the connection between the two organizations inseparable."

The program is designed for professionals who work in the areas of health and environment in either the public or the private sector, and similarly placed professionals who do not work in the health or environment industries but who wish to lead their organizations toward better health and environmental outcomes. The goals of the program are to:

Augment the leadership skills and potentials of health and
environment professionals,
Develop an ongoing broad-based corps of dedicated health and
environment leaders and to enhance their professional development, and;
Build relationships among professionals in the different sectors
of the environmental public health field.

Fellows in the program must commit the time required to complete assignments and participate in four on-site "events" of three days' duration. The on-site events occur at various venues around the Rocky Mountain region, and are typically held in August, October, January and May. In between the events, the Fellows read books on leadership, complete self-assessments, participate in on-line discussions, and work on projects that require their leadership.

Tom Dunlop continues, "RIHEL provides a mechanism to insert environmental public health practitioners into the workforce with graduate level leadership training. CEHA members and the public are served benefits beyond measure what a RIHEL scholar brings to the profession."

Applications for the 2007-2008 class are being accepted now through April 30, 2008. For more information or for details regarding the application process, please see the RIHEL website at http://rli.uchsc.edu/rli/ or contact Dr. Kathy Kennedy, RIHEL Director, at kkennedy@du.edu or 303-871-3483.

The tuition of $2500 is payable upon acceptance into the program. Tuition covers program materials, shared lodging, and most meals. Travel expenses to and from the events and computer expenses are not included. For more details and to begin the application process for next class, please go to the website: http://rli.uchsc.edu/rli/
choose "Public Information" and then choose "Application".

The application is almost completely online. Applicants will complete and submit general application information and essays and upload a CV using the online application system. Applicants will supply the names and e-mail addresses of two persons to provide letters of reference during the online application process. The nomination and signature pages should be printed, signed, and submitted via mail. Completed RIHEL applications must be received by RIHEL no later than April 30, 2007.
Financial Support
Two separate funding sources are available to CEHA members, a “CEHA-RIHEL Scholarship” and “RIHEL Scholarships for Emergency Preparedness Professionals.”

CEHA-RIHEL Scholarship
CEHA has available scholarship money to support RIHEL Fellows. For scholarship consideration, please provide the following:

Name:
Title:
Agency:
Contact Information (including email):
Why financial support is needed from CEHA
Other funding sources (e.g., your agency, out of pocket, etc.)
Whether CEHA’s limited financial support is critical for your attendance
Whether you would you be willing to share your RIHEL experiences during a CEHA annual conference

It is requested that applicants apply for the “CEHA-RIHEL” scholarship once they have been accepted into the RIHEL program. To be considered for financial support from CEHA, please mail the requested information to:
Colorado Environmental Health Association
Attention: CEHA-RIHEL Scholarship
P.O. Box 460726
Glendale, CO 80246

The CEHA Scholarship Endowment was created in 1986 by a $5,000 gift to the Colorado State University Foundation. A scholarship is awarded annually as funds permit to a CSU student working to gain further expertise in the Environmental Health Profession. Students self-nominate through CSU Scholarship Application. A Scholarship and awards committee selects the successful candidate from the pool of applicants. Selection is based on student's good standing in the Environmental Health program; participation in student, state, or national Environmental Health organizations; and financial need. Applicants must be an undergraduate Junior or Senior, or a graduate student. Deadline for application is March 1, 2008. Award will be announced at the 2008 Spring Scholarship and Awards Luncheon, April 2008.

Since 2003, CEHA has awarded one Junior Division and one Senior Division science fair participant with an outstanding science project in the field of Environmental Health Science, exemplifying the objectives of the Association, at the Annual Colorado Science and Engineering Fair.

The award, along with a scholarship check for $50, is presented to the outstanding Junior Division winner and a check for $100 is presented to the outstanding Senior Division winner. Also, the Senior Division winner receives an all expenses paid invitation to the Annual Educational Conference to exhibit their project. The Colorado Science and Engineering Fair is held at Colorado State University in April.

The 2007 Senior Division winner was Mariah Hanley of Cherry Creek High School. Mariah's project was titled Correlations Between Snow Contamination and the Air Quality Index.

2007 CEHA Science Fair Winner Mariah Hanley.