AWARDS

Call for Applications for the Dr. Edith Rowles Simpson Family Finance Award

Individual Home Economists and/or Home Economics Associations are encouraged to apply for this award which supports professional updating in the family finance area. The Dr. Edith Rowles Simpson Family Finance Award is an annual award designed for potential leaders in the field who will invest their knowledge and expertise in improving the quality of life for families This annual award is available to support updating for individuals or for groups through support of a seminar, conference or workshop that provides updating for a group. Support is available for organizations which wish to organize a conference or workshop. Graduate students are eligible to apply for support to attend specific up-dating events.

Level of the award: For individuals, the amount of the award is up to $1000. For groups, the committee may award more than $1000, depending on the nature of the project. More than one award may be made as funds permit. Those applications unable to be funded by this award in the current year may be referred to the CHE Foundation General Fund.

Examples of Applications

Groups

• Professional updating workshops in family finance for home economics association branch members.
• Financial Forum I and II: meetings for financial counselors and educators in Western Canada received funding in and 2006 and 2001. These two-day events used a combination of grants and registration fees to cover the costs.
• Bring in a guest speaker or workshop resource person for an annual meeting, or other event. Teachers, for example, could host an updating event focusing on methods and materials used in teaching family finance.
• Produce resource materials for use by home economists.

Individuals can apply for awards to attend an updating event, a conference, seminar or workshop, take a credit or non-credit course, visit sites to learn how others are providing family financial services.

Deadline for applications is June 30.

For more information on how to apply go to www.homefamily.net and click on "Awards". The website includes a list of past recipients and the titles of their projects. or contact:

Edith Rowles Simpson Award Committee

c/o Gwenna Moss

Phone: 204-895-8016

E-mail: gmoss@mts.net

Funding for the Dr. Edith Rowles Simpson Recognition Fund is made possible by donations by friends of the late Saskatoon home economist. The fund is administered by the Canadian Home Economics Foundation.

Mailing Address: Canadian Home Economics Foundation, P.O. Box 2582 Stn Main, WINNIPEG , MB R3C 4B3

Email: cheaf_facef@yahoo.ca

Website: www.homeeconomicsfoundation.ca

To provide support for this award to continue, you may consider sending a cheque to the Canadian Home Economics Foundation, a registered charity. Mail to the address above, specifying it be designated to the Dr. Edith Rowles Simpson Recognition Fund. A tax receipt will be sent to you. CHEF is a registered charity, Canada Revenue Agency Charitable Registration #BN 88912-6066 RR0001. Annual Reports and Financial Statements are available on request by mail or email.

Past Recipients of the Edith Rowles Simpson Family Finance Award

Year	Applicant	Description of Project
2009	Faye Forbes Anderson and colleagues, Calgary, AB ($2,000) Stacy Yanchuk Olesky, Surrey, BC ($1,000) Regina Home Economics for Living Project (HELP) ($945)	Financial Forum III: A Meeting for Financial Counselors and Educations in Western Canada. To support completion of the final module in the Art and Science of Coaching. To train staff facilitators on the issues of poverty and homelessness.
2008	Regina Home Economics for Living Project (HELP) ($940) Ontario Home Economics Association ($1,000) New Brunswick Home Economics Association ($500)	To support staff training in the areas of communication, rapport building and motivation. To support continuing professional education workshops in family finance for OHEA branches. To support the family finance component of the annual conference which will be a Maritime regional conferences.
2007	Regina Home Economics for Living Project (HELP) ($1,000)	To provide staff training in the areas of wills and esates, and online banking and security.
	Jane McKay-Nesbitt, University of Manitoba ($700)	To support attendance and presentation of a paper at The American Marketing Association's Annual Conference on Marketing and Public Policy.
	Elaine Froese, Boissevain, MB ($700)	To support participation in training sessions with Mediation Services in Winnipeg.
2006	Doreen Gardner Brown & colleagues, Vancouver, BC ($2,000)	Financial Forum II: A meeting for financial counselors and educators in Western Canada.
	Margarida Demarchi Winnipeg, MB ($300)	To attendance at Association for Financial Counseling &Planning Education (AFCPE) annual conference.
2005	Patricia White, Brantford ON ($1,000)	To support enrolment in courses to earn the Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC) designation.
	Margarida Demarchi, Winnipeg, MB ($400)	To support attendance at Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education (AFCPE) annual conference.
	Brenda Purschke, Calgary, AB ($400)	To support attendance at AFCPE annual conference.
2004	Regina Home Economics For Living Project (HELP) ($940)	To support staff training in the area of addictions, recovery, and co-dependency and how these affect a person's behaviour and family dynamics
	Jane McKay Nesbitt, Brandon MB ($500)	To support Ph.D. study at the Asper School of Business.
2003	Elaine Froese, Boissevain MB ($1,000)	To attend two certification courses, The Family Business Advisor, and Advanced Facilitation, at the Centre for Family Business, Waterloo ON
2002	Elaine Froese, Boissevain MB ($1,000)	To support certification training in conflict resolution from Mediation Services, Winnipeg
2001	Regina Home Economics For Living Project (HELP) ($930)	To support staff training in the area of counseling/life skills training.
	Judy Hannah, Langley BC and Doreen Gardner Brown, Vancouver BC ($1,500)	Forum for Financial counselors in Western Canada to provide professional updating for home economists with private practices in financial counseling.
2000	Regina Home Economics For Living Project (HELP) ($1,710)	To support staff training in the area of financial counseling, provided by Faye Forbes Anderson
1996	Jan Williams-Russell ($450)	To support attendance at course on Comprehensive Family and Divorce Mediation in Saskatoon, given as part of Conflict Resolution Certificate Program of the British Columbia Institute of Justice.
1995	Awarded but declined. Carol Fraser, Truro NS	To support attendance at one course toward Chartered Financial Planners (CFP)
1994	Betty Ann Deobold, Rosetown, SK	To support attendance at the 1994 Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education National Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.