Mrs. Diana Fowler LeBlanc, C.C., B.S.W., Honorary Chair, Aboriginal Social Work Scholarship

The greatest help a community can receive is the help offered by those who know it best: its own people. Members of a community have a special interest in ensuring that the community thrives and prospers, and work hard to ensure that people receive the understanding, care, and assistance they need.

Established by Mrs. Diana Fowler LeBlanc, this scholarship will provide funding to enable Aboriginal students from all provinces and territories, including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, to pursue a degree in social work at recognized Canadian educational institutions. It is intended primarily, but not exclusively, to encourage mature students who wish to obtain a Bachelor of Social Work, and who may already be doing valuable work in their own communities.

In order to ensure Aboriginal students this access to education, Mrs. LeBlanc is challenging Canadian corporations, foundations, families, and individuals to give generously to the Aboriginal Social Work Scholarship (ASWS). The goal of this initiative is to create an endowment fund, the interest of which will be used each year to award scholarships enabling students to undertake a post-secondary programme in social work. These scholarships will be available to all Aboriginal students including First Nations Status and Non-status, Métis, and Inuit students.

The ASWS is administered by the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation. The Foundation's established credibility and many past successes will provide the Scholarship with strong administrative support and will ensure that these scholarships assist those most in need. The demand for Aboriginal social workers is high at present, both in urban areas and in isolated communities, and is particularly great within the corrections system, shelters, employment programs, and the fields of health care and family and child welfare.

"Please consider making a donation today and lend your much needed support to this initiative. With your assistance, we can give Aboriginal social workers the means to help build a better future for their communities; and a better future for our First People cannot help but enrich us all." - Diana Fowler LeBlanc

For more information or to make a donation call or fax us at:

The Diana Fowler LeBlanc Aboriginal Social Work Scholarship
The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation
P.O. Box 759
2160 Fourth Line Ohsweken
Six Nations of the Grand River
Ohsweken, ON
N0A 1M0

Telephone: 1 800 329-9780
Fax: 519 445-0067